Semper Fidelis

plain is ugly

Posted by: Tanae' A. on: May 17, 2007

beautiful fortress

living by no one elses rules

untamed lioness

wrapped in chocolate covered skin

personality stretched across flesh

metal piercing holes

displaying a raging soul

and onlookers disagree

because no one of her stature

should be tainted in that way

to say that this force is MISS understood

is an understatement

tigers jump around waists

and down backs

butterflies flutter by

and wrap themselves around

perrfectly pedicured feet

implying that souls are free

colors of all sorts

cover the markings

that they say have ruined beauty

but ask the love that has been found

and he will tell you

that everything that they view as wrong

he views as right

especially the cherry that glows in the night

this is nothing that will be understood

and they like it that way

his markings

make trails

that lead to hers

and his piercings

are just an opening to his soul

and this beautiful fortress

who lives by no one’s rules

wrapped in brown skin

covered with style

she is beauty

because plain is ugly

3 Responses to "plain is ugly"

This poem is just gorgeous. I love the vivid images.

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I followed fox’s link here to your poem. As she said, it’s gorgeous. Your images spiral and wrap about me. While you write of fortresses and the walls/masks/paint we wear to shut others out, there is something incredibly inclusive in your writing. Perhaps it’s your talk of piercings being openings into a person’s soul – I love that thought :-)

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