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My reflection doesn’t tell my story yet I still feel as though it defines me
When I look,
I see my flaws
I see mistakes
I see problems
Looking at others I see so much beauty
They have the perfect clothes
Perfect hair
Perfect face
Perfect body
Maybe it’s just a facade but it seems so real
Pushed on me is the pe...
Wednesday 11th September 2024 8:07 pm
Thinking Man's Crumpet
Scrolling through his gallery
Wondering what he sees in me
Look at her there
With her long blonde hair
This one's beautiful skin
And her so thin
But the gallery of my thoughts
All he can find
In my mind
That's what keeps
Him here
Tuesday 13th August 2019 2:05 pm
I am
I AM
You don’t see me
when you airbrush
fill, lift,
smooth.
You don’t see me
when you homogenize,
erase
remove.
My skin’s not alabaster.
Hairless,
unweathered,
untouched,
immobile,
unloved.
My curves don’t conform
to your limited map
of bosom and butt.
My body
topography
flows
its own sweet
course.
I am
fi...
Wednesday 31st July 2019 10:08 am
Weekly routine
Starve myself on Monday
Stuff myself on Tuesday
Hate myself on Wednesday
Rationalise on Thursday
Friday night I feel your strong arms appreciate my curves
The weekend passes in a dream
Rinse and repeat.
Tuesday 13th November 2018 8:56 pm
If only poetry burned calories...(first posted 31/10/18)
One of my favourite ways of passing the time
Is chasing imagery and hunting down rhyme,
But as this takes place inside my head
It’s not enough, or so my doctor’s said.
Poetry feeds my brain and soothes my soul
But it doesn’t help much towards my fitness goals.
If only flexing words could take inches off my thighs!
If only shaping verses was more than mental exercise!
T...
Thursday 1st November 2018 7:15 am
If only poetry burned calories
One of my favourite ways of passing the time
Is chasing imagery and hunting down rhyme,
But as this takes place inside my head
It’s not enough, or so my doctor’s said.
Poetry feeds my brain and soothes my soul
But it doesn’t help much towards my fitness goals.
If only flexing words could take inches off my thighs!
If only shaping verses was more than mental exercise!
T...
Wednesday 31st October 2018 10:19 pm
Me Not Me
Me, where is she
squeeze my skin, the flesh
it’s not me
I love me
the love I have lives deep
it’s far, so far beneath my cheeks
I wish I could hug me
to make myself believe
that with a finger touch it’s me
so then I’d see
that I am not this temporary body
and what I am is free
but Earth demands an anchor, you see
unfortunately for me
because it becomes all...
Tuesday 9th October 2018 12:01 am
My Body Gets In The Way
With years piling up around us
the shape we make, gets whittled more precisely
tongue and groove lock ever tighter
I want to spell it out
the way we did when we were younger
I want to paint my love across his skin
but I'm stopped
before I try
my body gets in the way...
The house swaddles us so comfy
built a nest from our shared blueprints
complimentary thought in tessellation
I want ...
Monday 11th June 2018 9:12 pm
Take Them
Take Them
Take these lies off my chest
Let me bleed from the gaping holes
No need to stitch me back up
These fallacy filled temptations
My main attraction
Hiding my true neuroticism
Telling the world stories
Of oh how amazing I am
How gorgeous
Such a demanding presence
Such an alluring sham
How dare I not live up to the expectations
Of a gorgeous woman
Li...
Thursday 23rd November 2017 3:03 pm
Body Parts
Loop the loop
Pull that knot
Attach my button eyes,
See me
Wink.
Smile-
Nod, my Jack in a box head
Bound to a neck of copper springs
Let me sing
And
Wave-
My floating foam hands,
Kick my Pinocchio legs
And
Dance –Dance- Dance
On
Tiny crippled plastic feet.
I am alive
Reborn!
Do you think I am beautiful?
Monday 8th August 2016 8:47 pm
why you are #beachready
because you deserve to feel
the sun on your skin
hot sand between your toes
to slough off the workday drudge
and free your smile
because it will be fun
because ice-cream melts fast
and tastes good
because it’s your laugh that matters
because no-one ever died thinking
the best thing they did
was spend three years on a diet
...
Tuesday 5th May 2015 4:06 pm
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