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Puberty (From a Painting by Edvard Munch)
Naked, afraid
Transparently thin
In the Norwegian cold
She lets the man
Immortalize her awkwardness
Building her gray-pink form
One stroke at a time...
The doe-in-the-headlight eyes
The thread-like limbs
But the defensive
Crossed forearms
Cannot hide the metamorphosis
Confusion replacing childish glee...
The shadow that hangs about her
Is what she will become
Jaded and indistinct
From the routine blandness of this world
Excellently done!
Starward
I had to read this since my mousepad is a Munch painting. While not a female, you have capture the transformation of us all with:
Cannot hide the metamorphosis
Confusion replacing childish glee...
The shadow that hangs about her
Is what she will become
Jaded and indistinct
From the routine blandness of this world