Born Beautiful
bruised, broken bones, their blackened tissues shown;
and through this thistle comes thoughtless memoir,
brought through en lieu, it flew this faux foehn;
an ailing, failing, bygone blazing star.
blued blood bucks and boils as black lungs breathe in;
all hours ours to scour as time turns tauter,
burned bookend to bookend, but bound back n'penned;
a body bereft of breath's born daughter.
but binary blocks ceruloplasmin;
as new ashen dispassion backs them,
bash in this blackened chromatin bastion;
a wayward wind's wise guise left cleft at stem.
burnt bitch fought bone; oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ
as ash; as poem; oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ
About this poem
Written in the months after coming out as a trans girl; this poem hopes to recognize that journey in self recognition and acceptance.
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Written on December 09, 2021
Submitted by MaybeMissMaeve on April 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB XBXX ACXC DD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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