PAD Challenge Day 13: Full-figured Woman

PAD Challenge Day 13: Take the phrase "Full (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Full-figured Woman 

I never understood 
the shape and fat 
shaming that came with 
being a full-figured woman,
as if a plus size should be
minus and shapeless-
Sketched out of look books 
when we are the Goddesses 
of the hourglasses. 

We can be an exclusive
essential to Haute Couture.
After being an once upon time, 
unaccepted and uncelebrated model 
that can now, bodaciously catwalk,
Straight rip a runway,
bust through New York, Milan, 
Paris, and London with grace and
a well defined waist sponsored by
the assurance and contentment 
of her motherland hips.

Even if I wasn't one
I wouldn't dare 
fully question her existence, 
her overflow of confidence, 
the length of her sophistication 
nor the width of her self-respect.
Because, maybe like Maybelline,
she was born with it.
Got it from her mama and
still fighting to keep it because 
she can't get it from nobody else.

I wouldn't dare hate to see 
what is beautifully rare 
in a world quick to round up 
one standard of beauty 
when her balanced silhouette 
can discreetly and loudly 
be admired from a distance.

D'ElegantOne 


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