Thursday, October 2, 2008

The Beauty Queen Comments

Rating: 3.5

Vericose Veins
are eating her legs
like worms in the rain
climbing her neck.
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David DeSantis
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Onelia Avelar 07 October 2008

A masterful piece with remarkable description of a former beauty, nothing escapes your clinical eye, shape words like scalpels - your poetry is far from aesthetic surgery :) - you created rather a Frankenstein, but the poem is deep and I like it. BR, one

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Lynda Robson 06 October 2008

Yuk, you won't be chasing her then lol, I think a lot of Americans (well the ones we see) are in the habit of having botox nips tucks facelifts etc, whereas we like to grow old gracefully here, plus I personally, couldn't stand the pain lol, 10 for this well penned write Lynda xx

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Sharon Goodwin 03 October 2008

It sounds like she's letting the old age take over. Unlike, other beauty queens they need botox, face lifts, tity lifts, tummy tucks, etc, etc.

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Rakhi Jayashankar 03 October 2008

wot all people do to maintain beauty people forget their real self in their obsession of beauty conscious folly buut no one knows how their end would be still we poeple run after beauty

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Rinzu Susan Rajan 03 October 2008

that was sad... : (

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Koyel Mitra 03 October 2008

Beautiful poem.Way of expressing is very good.A 10!

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Kesav Easwaran 02 October 2008

beauty growing vericose veins...trees no bar...funny and pleasing...worth few beers and a smoking pack along with to read...10

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