Image: A Beauty Queen's Guarded Smile (here)
Whirligig's 12 given words:
pouts hazel cheeks softens glances limp
months letting tight spirit scar small
3WW given words:
kook (a crazy or eccentric person)
maniacal lethal
Seemingly a guarded smile with pouted lips
Hazel brown eyes twinkling in the summer's heat
Warmed rosy cheeks pinkish as a new-born baby
Was it not enough to soften the hearts of many?
What when she stole glances to render men limp
Confounded the male admirers after months of letting
Tight and tensed they tried to liven up their spirits
Scars imprinted in their minds told of likely defeats
What a kook it was to pass off a beautiful life partner
Not maniacal enough to ward off blows of other suitors
Not a semblance of something lethal nor a small matter
Mistake perhaps for she was a beauty queen years later
MMT with Old Egg's words at Sunday's Whirligig #62
Grace with CC's at dVerse's Poetics: even monkeys fall from trees
Thomg's at 3WW #482
Make your move before it's too late!
ReplyDeleteI still hope there is beauty in both heart and looks... Maybe it was not a mistake at all... After all it could be written miss take.
ReplyDeleteyes sometimes you have to make your move while the iron is hot unless maybe she's all looks and no foundation?
ReplyDeleteSo many layers of beauty and so hard to judge what is true and what is put on. One of the good things I've found in growing old is that the real does emerge. It has to.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree about so many layers of beauty in all of us!
ReplyDeleteWonderful poem Hank, and very true.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Good to be on guard after all ~ And good for her to be a beauty queen after all ~
ReplyDeleteHave to be on guard in many a way, but pushing on through too. Beauty is in many ways
ReplyDeleteI suppose beauty isn't everything - perhaps she is wiser than her smile suggests ;) Nicely written Hank!
ReplyDeleteThey all become beauty queens years later, but the the true person is wrapped in WYSIWIG. Love that rendering and you'll have a beauty queen for life, Hank!
ReplyDeletesMILes.. truly it's hard
ReplyDeleteto be a beauty Queen
these days.. even if one does
not wear the crown.. even if they
are A.. Queen from birth.. as my
frAgile looKing butterfly oF a wiFe
can tale through years of bullying
in school for the jealousy of her
beauty by bigger boned
girls.. and then into
adult-hood as
these days
some women
don't wanna be
friends with someone
all the men google eyes
at.. no.. it's not always an
easy ride being beautiful too
and sure it's the same for a man
as not many men wanna HANG around
a lady's
man either
as i can attest
in reams of evidence
as well of course.. funny..
how Nature has his and
her say.. my wife and
i have always
been gifts
only to the
opposite sex
it seems.. but
sure.. she won the
battle of the beauty
against the beast long ago..
and whenever she gets on
my Facebook page the likes
do skyrocket
oh.. so
prediCt
abLY noW
and no doubt
sHe is likely one
of the only reasons
i noW have 1.4 million
views on the Google plus
oh what A side show she is..
in all stuff bLog of beauty sure..
nah.. tHeRe is no
miStaKinG
an alMost
perFect
floWer
mY
FriEnd..
wITh no
FaKE SMiLes..;)
She doesn't render me limp! Go for it man before I do!(I really do write nonsense sometimes!) Cheers Hank
ReplyDeleteThe Mayor. A very short story.
Great combination of prompts you've got here, Hank! Thanks for joining in :-)
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