Lit eZine Vol 5 | p-12 | POETRY | Summer, Ballgown, Symphony – Manic Sylph Writes… Poetry & Thoughts by Mona Soorma

SHORT POEM

SUMMER, BALLGOWN, SYMPHONY
by Jess A. Guest

Woman in a flowing lavender dress — *Image edited by* *Anisha Shakur*

You are greater
than the calculus of BMI.
You are a lavender in late summer, 
somehow too much to be confined
to the sunny hours of dawn.
You thrive as dusk settles in,
warmth filling the spaces around you.

You are not a slip of a girl, but a ballgown,
full and billowing and soft.
You are beautiful in ways only things
that take up space can be.

You aren’t so much a sum of your parts
as a composition of notes and keys
compiled into a symphony
playing so loudly it fills the soul
and leaves you gasping for air.

That you would walk away
to avoid seeing your own reflection
could be catastrophic.
You will miss your beauty
in the pursuit
of less.

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Jess A Guest is a plus-sized author writing fat-positive stories with a hint of magic. She lives near a small historic town in the Poconos with her husband, daughter and rescue dog. By day she’s an admin at a local real estate office, but in her time off you can find her walking down tree-lined streets, baking something fun or trying to find magic between the pages of a good book.