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Beautiful Anguish
by Shirley Beauty Houston → (All Poetry by Shirley Beauty Houston)
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Being a visionary can leave one feeling vulnerable & fearful! It's not always comfortable being unique & creative.

I watched as she descended/ erratically/ like a butterfly/ blown off course/ a malady/ delicate & vulnerable arms flailing/ tepidly/ unparalled/ her life has been/ a soliloquy/ she holds screams/ within her soul/ tacitly/ chaotic, the calm/ veiled by an opaque/ canopy/ brilliant her aura/ but she hides/ flickering/ prostrate she lies/ prostrate she lies/ veracity/ voices billow/ from hollowed lairs/ grumblings/ illuminating nescient and cloned/ atrocities/ she's at the edge/ just holding on/ to sanity/ accepting her plight/ apart from her light/ a tragedy/ I cried as she descended/ erratically/ like a butterfly/ blown off course/ a malady/ delicate & vulnerable arms flailing/ tepidly/ unparalleled/ her life has been/ a soliloquy/ she holds screams/ within her soul/ tacitly/ chaotic, the calm/ veiled by an opaque/ canopy/ she cannot perceive/ the depth of her/ profundity/ nor does she know/ the breadth of her/ necessity….

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Reviews of "Beautiful Anguish"

Reviewed by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse

Reviewed on May 13, 2012

this my dear is utterly beautiful!

Through Love's Bounty
Victoria

Reviewed by Asa Seeley

Reviewed on April 10, 2012

well done. thanks for sharing.

asa

Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)

Reviewed on April 1, 2012

I think this has cadence of dance, a spareness and a frailty/fierceness kind of duality. ~~ Diana

Reviewed by Richard King

Reviewed on March 30, 2012

I much enjoyed the direction this was taking me although I found the repeating lines a bit disconcerting.

Still in all, much food for thought. I felt the photo and the words telling me the same story.

Dick

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