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poetry by j matthew waters

sometimes I see her

there is this beauty
inside you
existing secretly
behind the artificiality
of your everyday routine

this beauty inside you
speaks to me
in my living dreams
allows me to understand
it’s smothered beneath
your colorful skin

the beauty that is yours
dies to be noticed
and so you continue
to scratch the surface
hoping to find her

october two thousand thirteen
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Posted in Poetry and tagged artificiality, beauty, cutter, depression, poem, Poetry, tattoo

23 thoughts on “sometimes I see her”

pandamoniumcat on October 20, 2013 at 6:37 pm said:

Just beautiful.

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- j matthew waters on October 20, 2013 at 6:46 pm said:
  
  thank you very much
  
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pleisbilongtumi on October 20, 2013 at 9:35 pm said:

What a lovely poem! . . . The face is a screen where the beauty inside us is being displayed. 🙂

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- j matthew waters on October 20, 2013 at 9:46 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed this piece and thanks for commenting!
  
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  - pleisbilongtumi on October 20, 2013 at 9:56 pm said:
    
    I really do love this poem very much, JMW. Best wishes.
nightlake on October 21, 2013 at 7:36 am said:

This is lovely

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- j matthew waters on October 21, 2013 at 8:31 am said:
  
  Thank you very much.
  
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cyberbonn on October 21, 2013 at 10:42 am said:

lovely little gem

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- j matthew waters on October 21, 2013 at 8:20 pm said:
  
  thank you my friend
  
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The Course of Our Seasons on October 21, 2013 at 2:29 pm said:

wonderful, John, especially like the last stanza – very strong -K

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- j matthew waters on October 21, 2013 at 8:20 pm said:
  
  this one seemed to have written itself – thanks so much Kathleen
  
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ljlenehan on October 26, 2013 at 6:01 pm said:

This is so beautiful…

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- j matthew waters on October 26, 2013 at 8:34 pm said:
  
  thank you so much L.J.
  
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  - ljlenehan on October 27, 2013 at 9:14 am said:
    
    You are welcome… xo
Wordifull Melanie on October 28, 2013 at 10:45 pm said:

Love, LOVe this one..beautiful 🙂

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- j matthew waters on October 29, 2013 at 6:54 am said:
  
  Thank you so very much ;`)
  
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lscotthoughts on November 1, 2013 at 9:48 pm said:

There’s more going on between the lines here, John, just beautiful and then the ending…wow, very powerful!

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- j matthew waters on November 2, 2013 at 7:13 am said:
  
  Thank you for noticing, Lauren. So glad you enjoyed this one.
  
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rediscovering herself on February 18, 2015 at 8:28 am said:

Simple yet complex… Ironical though it is… But this is the beauty of this poem… that my nerves could not miss.. (Well I am not really good with poems. But yes I could feel it.)

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- j matthew waters on February 18, 2015 at 8:32 am said:
  
  Thank you for commenting on this piece – so glad you could feel it!
  
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denise0904 on April 20, 2017 at 6:34 pm said:

such beautiful words, breathtaking.

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- j matthew waters on April 20, 2017 at 8:05 pm said:
  
  thank you, Denise – very kind of you to say
  
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