Kiss and Make Up – 21st October 2025

Oh, troublesome wind

That blows across my face

And threatens to unsettle

Every carefully considered

Mark that I have made

Oh, unforgiving rain

That turns my soluble stare

And aims to reduce me

To tears without need

Of emotion

Oh, fickle manipulators

Of women who slice and

Pluck and nip and

Tuck and sell a lie

That you’re not enough

Remember you are everything

And hold the universe inside

Shine brighter than the Sun

Who like you

Is in no need of adornment

There have been so many great poems about what beauty is. This is my contribution.

What if we could see the beauty of nature in ourselves?

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