Simplicity: An Onda Mel

Don’t wait for someone to tell you
you’re beautiful,
you are soulful.
Your heart and soul are fresh and new.

The truth is as clear as white snow.
Simple or not,
make-up, without,
your real and raw beauty will show.

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Photo credit: Unsplash

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In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 30.

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The Onda Mel is an invented verse form introduced by Renelda Gibson.

The Onda Mel is:

• an octastich, a poem in 8 lines made up of 2 quatrains.
• syllabic, 8-4-4-8-8-4-4-8 syllables per line.
• rhymed abbacddc.