Patrician

My mother was no beauty—

long, thin face

straight brown hair and

mud-brown eyes.

Her charming,

blonde,

voluptuous daughter must

have seemed like an alien being

But

it was my mother’s thin,

melancholy hands

were grazed by the lips

of a prince.

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[Poeticpiers]

beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder Tastes differ from generation to generation but any woman is beautiful if she is loved