Wordsworth

[Bianca Alabaster]

I don't think I posted this here before.

> I am a beautiful Dandelion
even if it is considered a weed.
Don’t try to change me
just like me the way I am.

I used to despise the sound of my laugh
and wish it were soft and light
because it embarrassed you
and made you always want to hide
away from me and I loved you so.

But my laugh reaches deep into my soul
and though I tried to make it more quiet
from the day I was born, I never could.

I am a beautiful Dandelion
even if it is considered a weed.
Don’t try to change me
just like me the way I am.

I used to dislike the sound of my voice
because it was so loud and strong
often getting me into trouble in school
as a little girl, it was hard to whisper
I wanted a high pitch, lilting voice
but God didn’t give me one of those.

Many have said I’m too confident
though they like my strength
when it comes in handy for them,
and that my voice if it could just
be a little less bold- would be best.

I am a beautiful Dandelion
even if it is considered a weed.
Don’t try to change me
just like me the way I am.

I shouldn’t let people’s words
put such a weight on my soul
and define my worth, but alas
sometimes it is so.

May those hurts be less
and less, help me Lord!
I am not worth your words
of appraisal of me
whether good or bad
I am who God says I am.
All I can ever be is me.

I am a beautiful Dandelion
even if it is considered a weed.
Don’t try to change me
just like me the way I am.

© 2/5/2010

[addy]

I'm not sure I get the title, but perhaps I'm just slow LOL

I think some of the storytelling in this can be shortened, made more concise. This has the added benefit of making your images tighter. Still, I very much like the heartfelt theme. It's similar to one of your older dandelion poems, but I'm happy that this one conveys a greater sense of self-love (obviously not in a bad way but in a liberating way)

[heslopian]

The self-loathing in the face of God, how you see yourself as unworthy of his appraisal, calls to mind Emily Dickinson. I'd recommed her piece "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun": http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/englis...6/gun.html. As addy said, it could do with being a bit more concise, but on the whole is heartfelt and sweet, with a pleasent chorus. In the third stanza, though, I'd put replace "more quiet" with "quieter." Sorry, I'm just a grammar freak haha.

[billy]

for me it feels like a poem asking for acceptance, to be what they are. that they, despite what others
may think, have good qualities. that sometimes we should take people (the poet) for what they are.
it also feels a like a plea to be understood. quite sad yet with a certain strength

i'm wondering about the title. possibly the fact that wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud (the act of feeling alone) that and the flower connection.

thanks for the read Bianca

[Bianca Alabaster]

the title is a snag for me too. I like it but I don't ... to me it meant "am I just "word's worth?"
thanks everyone for the suggestions and input. And I do like the poet Wordsworth though i have lots of trouble finding his work anywhere.