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Clandestine

December 5, 2012
By Memories_Of_Nobody BRONZE, Camden, Tennessee
Memories_Of_Nobody BRONZE, Camden, Tennessee
3 articles 4 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” - Charles Mingus


Beauty only visits once a year,
clawing it’s fury down into the shape of
scratch marks onto our wooden tables with its lovely
French manicured nails.
Following rueful tradition, with a toss of
golden hair, I am given the once in a life
time present of my own choosing.
Beauty prefers to keep it short and simple,
our contact minimal as it checks
flawless skin in a compact mirror, reapplying ruby
red lipstick while following me down the aisles
of my sanctuary, a book’s haven.
Beauty is strong, pain enduring, fluffing the
unbearably hot fur coat up and down
its bony shoulders as if winter stood at its thin back.
Beauty’s façade makes a wave of
handsome ties and stiff suits swoon as it struts past
them down the cracked pavement, a red carpet
of velvet in its own arrogant eyes.
Novel tucked under my arm, I wave beauty goodbye
as it sets itself upon the plush leather throne
of its limo and drives away without a backward glance.
I wonder if next year its hair will have been dyed
another exotic color, or perhaps bring
another poor trapped animal tied with it at
the waist, calling itself her husband. Beauty now forgotten,
I escape into my humble threshold to clean
down the scratched tables.


The author's comments:
I was given the phrase 'Beauty only visits once a year' and told to run with it. At first I thought of seasons, but this was the outcome. I believe anyone can be creative it they try.

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on May. 5 2013 at 9:09 pm
Memories_Of_Nobody BRONZE, Camden, Tennessee
3 articles 4 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” - Charles Mingus

Thank you so much!!

on Dec. 18 2012 at 7:48 pm
Laugh-it-Out PLATINUM, Brooklyn, New York, New York
38 articles 0 photos 445 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light" --Dylan Thomas

WOW this was beutiful, great job and keep up the good work!

on Dec. 14 2012 at 4:09 pm
JacqueleenDubois PLATINUM, Levittown, Pennsylvania
24 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Of all the words of Mice and Men, the saddest are what could have been."- Kurt Vonnegut

Kisses to the author, this was wonderful.

on Dec. 12 2012 at 5:48 pm
fireandrain PLATINUM, Wayland, Massachusetts
22 articles 2 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
"People who think they are crazy enough to change the world usually end up being the ones who change it."

wow. i like the table scratches part!

on Dec. 9 2012 at 7:55 pm
vanessarose BRONZE, Louisville, Kentucky
3 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work”  -Thomas Edison

Wonderful!

on Dec. 7 2012 at 12:50 pm
tracetrace SILVER, Windsor, Connecticut
5 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

This was so beautiful. I loved it!