Ellie+B

= Eating Poetry =

Four Poems With One Common Theme: Insecurity


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I am silver and exact.  I have no preconceptions. =====

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I think it is a part of my [|heart. But it flickers.] =====

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She rewards me with [|tears]  and an agitation of hands. =====

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
 -Sylvia Plath

Sound and Sense p. 38 

Higher Purpose to the Poem 

"Pretty Girl"

Pretty girl , who is to blame Frightened girl, they don’t know her name Saddened girl, who cries at night Distant girl, who’s out of sight Psycho girl, with scars on her wrists <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Fairytale girl, who don’t exist <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Silent girl, without a name Ignored girl, who’s filled with shame Faking girl, with plastic smiles <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Freakish girl, from a thousand miles <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Emotionless girl, cant feel much pain <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Darkened girl <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">, who brings the rain Crying girl, tears start to flood Psychotic girl, who drains her blood Hated girl, who no one loves Such a weak girl, who’s no longer though Angry girl, there is no cure Happy girl, she is no more Hidden girl, she covers her scars Prisoned girl, lived behind her life’s bars Crazy girl, who bleeds so much Lonely girl, who’s out of touch Stupid girl, who no one likes Beaten girl, who always fights Pretty gir <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">l, <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">don’t give up now <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Suicide girl, there’s someway, somehow Scared girl, don’t be afraid Distant girl, don’t go away Morbid girl, don’t die tonight Worried girl, it'll be alright Stoner girl, tonight she'll smoke her sorrow Alcoholic girl, she'll drink tomorrow Furious girl, who has no more faith Depressed girl, who cries and aches Fallen girl, with broken wings Disturbed girl, fell off the swing Pretty girl, you are my friend Aching girl, just try to mend Ugly girl, not like before Beautiful girl, she is no more Pretty girl, who made her life end Pretty girl...no...not again... <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #f2a1f2; color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> -Ashlee Kilbourn

<span style="background-color: #2656f2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "Stars,I have seen them fall"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Stars,I have seen them fall, <span style="background-color: #2656f2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> star-sown sky. <span style="background-color: #2656f2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt.

- A.E. Housman

Sound and Sense

<span style="background-color: #47cae1; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">"The Girl I Pretend To Be"

Look me in the eye, don't walk away Say all the things you want to say Don’t lie to me, don't pretend to be interested in me, the person I have to be the girl outside is so much stronger than the girl inside that can't hold on much longer the girl outside is just a fake inside, I'm about to break I'm so weak inside but it'll never show only reflected in the scars, I know everyone’s telling me don't do this and don't do that I need to break apart from this image I've made that everyone sees and I just need someone to believe that I can overcome these things that drag me down and make me want to die so now the only question is, is this really goodbye?

-Anonymous

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "Barbie Doll"

This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee <span style="background-color: #fd2b90; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|lipsticks] the color of <span style="background-color: #fd2b90; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs.

She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.

She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, <span style="background-color: #fd2b90; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|exercise], diet, smile and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt. So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up.

In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending.

-Marge Piercy

Sound and Sense p. 118

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