i flipped through my book of favorite poems and picked out everything i found comforting/uplifting because i couldn’t think of anything that specifically fit your criteria but i hope this is helpful anyway !

• “the nutritionist,” andrea gibson
• “letter from my heart to my brain,” rachel mckibbens
• this untitled poem by finn butler
• “here’s what our parents never taught us,” shinji moon
• “what i know about faith,” ao-oa

HEY FOLLOWERS IF YOU HAVE ANY TO ADD, RESPOND AND I’LL KEEP THIS LIST UPDATED (:

omf this is so sweet thank you!! it’s so weird and kind of scary to think that people make the effort to check this blog daily??? also I hope your mom liked it aha (:

ahhh thank you! I was just thinking about the phrase one day and thought it’d be really cool to twist it and interpret it literally, and I also really like the idea of consuming/becoming beauty. the original first draft of the poem was super long and clunky and was basically just an excuse for me to use lots of pretty imagery and metaphors and back then I didn’t really know what I was doing with poetry. and then a year later when I started to write poetry more seriously I revisited the idea but cleaned it up a lot and there it is (: