" To Love Oneself is the beginning of a life long romance"
____Oscar Wilde
You can check out part 1 here
They say you can find inspiration in anything. I took one look at the picture below and felt a strong desire to stand in front of a mirror and say to myself....TU EST BELLE! Don't let anyone tell you different.
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Ofcourse this will be incomplete without a poem to accompany it so i give you
Brown Skin by by Sharon
Harvey Rosenberg
This is for all the brown-skin girls
drowning in tears from
blue-eyed dreams
buried under pillows
seeded with wallflower nightmares
blooming like thorns around
the crown of nappy hair.
This is for all the brown-skin girls
whipped by fantasies of
long blond hair
tossed over a shoulder
like the blade of a knife
cutting the stems of nappy hair flowers
neglected like weedsin a vacated lot.
This is for all the
brown-skin girls
lost between the pages
of glossy magazine covers
where black typeface is
printed on perforated solicitations
tossed away with junk mail.
No.
In these cut-lines for brown-skin girls,
The text is rewritten and photos are reframed
with portraits of nappy-hair
girls smiling under boldface type:
Featuring and
Including Brown-skin Cover Girls On the Table of Contents
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