Beautiful!



How can you be beautiful?
Simple: be YOU to the full!
That's what it takes to be beautiful:
Being yourself to the full!

Now if you're ill-trained and have bad manners,
Know that to beauty they're like an ugly banner;
Grow out of them quickly for they are not attractive,
And in being you to the full you've got to be selective
of the virtues and graces you want as adornments;
of your character and personality worn as ornaments.

Be YOU - not him, her, or them - t' the full!
That is the way to truly be beautiful!
Decide to self-actualize and reach your full potential
And admiring glances thrown your way will not be accidental.
You'll exude an air of command, an aura purposeful,
That's inseparable from the concept of being you to the full.

Be you t' the full! Be you t' the full!
Anyone else and it'll be a caricature - distasteful.
Just focus on being yourself to the full and when you are, you'll be graceful,
Devoid of guile and anything phony, of any thinking that is wishful.
Be you t' the full! Be you t' the full!
Don't procrastinate, start now and in the end you'll be grateful.

Still want to be beautiful now that you've seen that it's simple
 AND hard to be this one thing: YOU t' the full?
And yet you must be it to be beautiful,
for to be YOU t' the full, is to be beautiful!

About this poem

Encouraging people to be their positive selves, and self-actualizing.

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Written on October 10, 2022

Submitted by on October 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abab cxddcx baaaab BaaaBa abaa
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,306
Words 273
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 6, 6, 4

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