Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Charlie Challenge: Beautiful Girls

Well, I took a day off and now I'm onto the You, Me & Charlie 30 day challenge. This is open to all forms of art, so maybe I'll get into some prose, but for now I have a poem.

Charlie Challenge, day 1: Write your personal manifesto. Mine is inspired by this quote from Sarah Dessen's "Keeping the Moon," a quote that I've loved since high school and yet keep forgetting.

"It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. We can all be beautiful girls, Colie. It's so easy. It's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along."



Beautiful Girls

We are all beautiful girls,
a hint of
magick
all we need
to peel back the hurt.
You are my sorceress tonight,
take me
in your hands, your eyes
and free the girl beneath
this bruised skin.
We were born swans
so cut these ties and soar
beside me.