Ideal Beauty, changing with the times
Ideal Beauty, what is her size?
Ideal Beauty, this unattainable standard
Ideal Beauty, she’s a work of fiction
As she wears the perfect cut
As she looks so glam and perfect
As her flaws are airbrushed away
As her everything is washed away
Modern Beauty in this world
Modern Beauty living her life
Modern Beauty, aspiring to a lie
Modern Beauty, why can’t you see?
As you aim for an impossible ideal
As you wish to be less flawed
As you try to follow trends
As you attempt to fit the mould
True Beauty, why is she not enough?
True Beauty, she is more then skin deep
True Beauty, we know you to be real
True Beauty, why have you never sufficed?
As we spread the lies
As we worship falsities
As we never allow ourselves to see
As we always seek Ideal Beauty
Ideal Beauty, changing with the times
Modern Beauty living her life
True Beauty why is she not enough?
Ideal Beauty, you are the lie
Author notes
this is a quasi-feminist piece i wrote one day, after ranting about tabloids
do you believe in real beauty?
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True beauty is more than just an appearance, it glows from within. Well thought out and very well written. Being an old man I stop evaluating appearances and treasure the inner glow.
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As I grow older, I realize the truth behind these sentiments more and more clearly. Very well said!
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Good Message
This last verse gets to me. The rhyme makes it so much more effective. I usually require a poem to rhyme for me to read it. Yours are an exception, because they are so exceptional. However, all my Favorites must rhyme. I leave brilliant people out of my Favorites List who don''t rhyme. This is a poetry site...
I agree so wholeheartedly with the messages of your poems, but for me they are like reading prose, fine prose. I was very weak on rhyme and meter, especially, when I started writing poetry (trying to write it), but it came with years of practice. Now it seems easy, but it took years of practice.
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This is GREAT!!! I adore this...it is so very true! Wonderful insight to the precepts of the folly that has befallen so many women these days. This is a brilliant and timely write.
Blessings~
Az
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Yep. I go along with these sentiments. I don't follow trends, nor do i follow beauty pageants. All false. You wrote this one so well and although you repeat quite often, i think that gave the poem a style of its own that sets it apart from other. mind you, not all poems would work like this, but this did, quite nicely. False people being someone they are not and spending their lives trying to live up to the lies they create. All this was delivered in your words. I was stunned and say thank you for writing.
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As you attempt to fit the mould (mold)
a little on the repetivie side. but i see the point. i am not one for the same look of woman. the modernized look that we can never keep.
great piece here. keep the pen going.
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i tend to use british spelling, a lot of people have mentioned that i usually write it "mould" and i've looked it up and both spellings are acceptable
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I know this sounds bad but my girlfriend needs to read this.
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UR RITE...IDEAL BEAUTY IS A LIE...
AND MODERN BEAUTY FOOLISHNESS...
GOOD EASY USAGE OF WORDS... -
Yes!
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! Beauty is as beauty does. If the inner package isn't larger in scope than the outer, it's just window dressing in my book! Viva real woman with flaws & large ! Thanks for expressing yourself!
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Great!
i really like this..really quite awesome piece..should make people think!.
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What a fantastic topic! So very true, you have hit the nail on the head. As a mother and one who has experienced this overwhelming curse, this is a constant threat to the confidence of a woman. Comparison to a mythical creature of societies making. Do they ever show the lives of these wispy waif like creatures they parade before us? Do they reveal the drugs, and eating disorders and simple loathing of self by even by the most lovely of these magazine models? Wonderful write! You have captured the threat perfectly and demonstrated wonderful wisdom! Much love!
Blue~
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