Free Verse · Love
What I Mean by Beautiful
You think it's the dress.
It isn't the dress.
It's you on a Tuesday,
hair tied with the pencil you lost,
laughing at your own joke
before the punchline —
that. I mean that.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“What I Mean by Beautiful” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/what-i-mean-by-beautiful
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