10 Definitions of Beauty

I
Snowflakes
Falling on tongue
Like they did when I threw
Snowballs at boys during recess
Freedom

II
Her smile
When I come home
How was your day today?
Kitchen smells like butternut soup
Safety

III
Prancing
In the backyard
Catching red butterflies
Then watching them flutter away
Gently

IV
Fire
Camp songs and s'mores
Ashy smell on sweater
Crickets chirp and coyotes howl
In awe

V
Berry
Patches outstretched
Sun on back as I bend
Strawberries staining my soft hands
Yummy

VI
Kisses
Smooth as chocolate
The glee of being loved
As we waltz by the candlelight
Relax

VII
Bubbles
In the warm tub
The smell of apricots
Sticking close to my heated skin
Cleansing

VIII
River
Rushing quickly
Through the winding forest
How safe it is to be on shore
Watching

IX
Night time
No mascara
Just me and my inner
Thoughts, memories, wisdom, and soul
True self

X
Beauty
All the senses
Tingle when I breathe in
Earth is in equilibrium
Perfect

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Happiness is Pink Jellybeans

Happiness is jumping in a pool of pink jellybeans Feeling the cool candy on my skin Happiness is enjoying the pleasures of life Without worrying about confessing my sins Whoever said that we are gluttons For biting juicy pears on the beach Must never have felt the sand in their toes They must have placed their own soul out of reach And what about greed? It's not all that bad To bury a pile of chestnuts for the spring All animals do it, so why shouldn't we? If it's greedy to love yourself, let it be Lust is the one that makes pastors blush Yet it's one of the greatest joys in the body A kiss and a dance, laughter and romance Why did we ever label this happiness as naughty? Have you ever seen a cat sad when it naps? It is okay to sometimes be lazy The body needs rest as does the mind Or the world will set fire from the crazy If happiness is a sin, then let me smile in hell Looking up at the do-gooders above For to live is to err, to cry, and to sing Happiness is pink jell...

Lost in Rio

Jesus looks over The lost souls and bones below In the jungle sun To witness such beauty And such devastation God painted with one brushstroke Merry men sing Holes in their shoes The dark night lit up By police sirens And the crescent moon Bats flail around Like me, lost in the jungle Eyes glaring all around I hope they're monkeys Or jaguars I hope I can keep a piece of This country with me Safe in my pocket It smells like tropical rain And feels like The clam shells Washed up on the shore It tastes like fried bananas And heavily salted steak Sounds like seabirds cawing Samba on the streets And looks like a page From a storybook About parrots and palm trees Of finding a golden treasure A magnificent, uneasy place When she sun goes down So do we Leaving the night To the creepy crawlers And innocent stray cats

I See the Fire

Every time I close my eyes, I see the fire That aches where you burned me last I am a woman of the earth and the cool soil Where life ferments and earthworms roam I can't survive the lava that pulses beneath The crust of this beautiful land Yellow dandelions piercing the grass Emerald pockmarked with gold I wish sometimes that I wasn't a woman of the earth I wish that I were stronger I wish that my bones were made of steel And my heart of flame So that I wouldn't fall apart at every Crude remark, every Light tug, every Covert attack That rolls off the back of a fire-woman Instead, my skin is transluscent Like the morning dew My muscles pieced together With tree sap and mushrooms What's an earth-woman to do In a world engulfed by fire? But root herself firmly to one place Grow a network of twisting underground limbs And create a stable home To escape the chaos of this world

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