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    AC Benus
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A Man in a Room, and other poems - 5. wig and makeup

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Poem No. 9

 

Prelude:

 

I love her more than my heartbeat

to dream of her size-less subtleties

to touch her boundless soul

I dream to love her endless sight

 

 

Poem:

 

There's a tear in her eye, that hasn't been wiped

in a dozen-thousand years

It remains there still

so many have tried to brush it off her cheek

But there it is, still the same

it begs for a mere mortal to try

To understand the beauty there is to Love

 

 

 

Poem No. 10

 

Beauty, you stupid hag

Can't you put on a wig and makeup

Can't you appear ugly

I need it, so I can forget your face

Beauty, you stupid nag

leave me alone

unless you

can't be what you are.

 

 

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On 11/17/2016 11:19 PM, Parker Owens said:

Love and Beauty, both have intertwined parts in this deceptively complex set. I am drawn especially to the last, desperate cry, a plea to forget Beauty, for the speaker despairs of ever attaining its Love, its affection. This resonated powerfully with me. It is a cry with which I am deeply familiar.

Thanks, Parker. There seems to be quite a stretch of poems in this collection that ask about love and beauty – almost in gravitation combat with one another. A part of me feels self-conscious about posting them, as many are quite similar, but I will be true to them and upload in the order they were written.

 

That these speak to you personally is a wonderful thing to hear. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

AC Benus
On 11/18/2016 03:52 AM, Mikiesboy said:

Oh, I posted some old poems, you said!

Well they may have been written a few years ago, but they are powerful. I think they are a set about love and beauty. Can we ever find them, attain them, keep them?

Thank you, Tim. Powerful review, and I guess the magic of a well-turned piece of verse is its timelessness.

 

Thanks for your support, and more along these topics are coming.

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