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15-11-2020, 04:20 PM
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Guide
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: U.K
Posts: 720
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Looking Good?
(A free verse poem I wrote in the last century)
What to wear (or not to?)
knowing clothes speak
complementing, betraying,
shielding, revealing
...ourselves?
Images - absorbed imperceptibly, constantly
- that we all 'buy'
shaping choices, constantly
pausing seldom to separate the cloth
from the person,
the body from the soul
Sleek skin, hollowed cheek, seductive mouth
image-selling, image-sought
and - if found - is prone to disappoint
since beautiful wrapping, once undone
often reveals an
unexpectedly vacant interior
....and a fool
A myriad of visual feasts
await to captivate,
mass-media tinsel
reflecting in its consumers.
Plainly-wrapped precious gifts
are rendered inferior,
perhaps never to be seen
....or shared
in a world that prefers
the beautiful-looking
to the beautiful.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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16-11-2020, 05:51 AM
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Master
Join Date: Apr 2017
Posts: 3,511
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I like that, I look good when I smile, so I wear a smile when I can.
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Nothing Lasts But Nothing is lost
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18-11-2020, 03:20 PM
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Master
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 2,751
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by ameliorate
(A free verse poem I wrote in the last century)
What to wear (or not to?)
knowing clothes speak
complementing, betraying,
shielding, revealing
...ourselves?
Images - absorbed imperceptibly, constantly
- that we all 'buy'
shaping choices, constantly
pausing seldom to separate the cloth
from the person,
the body from the soul
Sleek skin, hollowed cheek, seductive mouth
image-selling, image-sought
and - if found - is prone to disappoint
since beautiful wrapping, once undone
often reveals an
unexpectedly vacant interior
....and a fool
A myriad of visual feasts
await to captivate,
mass-media tinsel
reflecting in its consumers.
Plainly-wrapped precious gifts
are rendered inferior,
perhaps never to be seen
....or shared
in a world that prefers
the beautiful-looking
to the beautiful.
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Very nice poem, lots of truth and a great theme deftly put down on paper. Thanks. Joe.
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Too much intellectual pride and not enough intellectual beauty
To Thine own Self be True
The Frost performs its secret ministry,Unhelped by any wind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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