Poems 6: Body Is A Temple (beta version) by gallimel

2D • Story/Sequential • posted on Sep 21, 2004

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* Body is a temple mine is rotten down... I never liked it, I never loved it... You say that's wrong, but while agreeing I still not believe it. Body is a temple, but mine has not goddess in it. I still see the vanity throu muscles trained, I see useless that time passed to make it, I don't like that, I don't like that, but maybe just cos it's what changes from mine to theirs... I have no forces to shape me on, I fear the long time, I fear the task and let down to have me reachin the prize and movin on... Body is a temple, mine was never built. I have to, I have to: but now I'm lackin that inner force to lead me there, too. * -------------- Photoshop 7, 1 hour work, fromthese new sources, courtesy of logiloglu and tallpindo, along with two pictures of mine. The original work was meant to be this one from these old sources, courtesy of logiloglu and my Stef ------------ The 6th poem taken from my old 1996/1998 series is dedicated to.. fitness I guess. Back at the end of my teenage days my relationship toward my body was pretty tragic.. I basically couldn't stand a single thing about it, but I was too unsure and disheartened about trying to give myself a chance to have the shape I would have loved to. I later learnt that to be fit is not being "perfect" as body , but it's about loving your health and the way nature has conformed you. The beauty around has many shapes and it's the wisest way the one that reads.. love the body you have, with its plus and minors. Try to be in shape, but in YOUR own shape. Diversity is the best. One kilos more or less won't make the difference, what does it instead is the love and respect you have for your own "temple". After those years of unconfidence I started to take regular physical activity, but to be healthy, instead of slim.As the obsession for weight faded out, I actually became slimmer than ever, with half of the effort. A sort of unexpected reward. I went to doctors that said me what was my specific weight to mantain, and I learnt to be "around that". Sometimes up it and sometimes a bit lower than it, but in all occasions no dramas. I can't say that the way I am is the way I would have loved to be, but after years, yep, I have started to feel that my body is my own temple.And I like it with all its defects. And I try to take care of it, without goin crazy if some parameter is from time to time dismissed. The message is that.. you are the first who have to take your own care. But to have care of oneself doesn't mean to get frustrated by a fake concept of perfection we should aim at. The target is health. The target is self-assurance that the shape we have been given from above has a sense. Don't let advertising, nor other people, decide what's the way you should look like. They don't know. Your body is the way that it's perfect for you to be. The only thing you have to learn follow is the healthy range of weight, and what's conformed to your own type of life.Not for the vanity. But for the sake of your life :) But. without pressures. They never are good, and they ruin your temple. Hugs :)

Comments (116)

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Doublecrash

4:23AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Tu pure, o Principessa, nella tua fredda stanza... Ora, se mi chiedi per quale motivo mi venuta in mente la Turandot quando ho visto questa immagine, non saprei dirtelo... ma prometto che ci penso e te lo spiego. L'emotivitimmediata la piimportante delle sensazioni, davanti a un'opera visiva, ma mi rendo conto che non sufficiente.

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kenwas

4:36AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Well expressed young Lady. The image is quite excellent and certainly one of your best!

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electric

5:12AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

nice composition, excellent artwork

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tallpindo

5:13AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

As you work out and test and claim those auxiliary muscles that get overshadowed by the bigger one they jump in when you have fatigue and give you a guessing space to adapt and circumvent the block. True randomness comes only with death when not even one fiber can be determined. I like that you have found a home with my testing machines where secrets evaporate. Keep staying ahead of the game.

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Artzy

5:44AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Very Nicely Done!

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sittingblue

5:57AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

this is a beautiful collage. Everything comes together exquisitely.

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ijack999

7:41AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

I love the busy composition you have made! Interesting to think about my body as a temple. I've never been one for exercise but I have been trying to take better care of myself. Getting older is a wakeup call sometimes.

linkinpark

8:23AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Again excellent work Mel, I love it..!

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pjaj

8:36AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Fantastic artwork here Meli! Excellent job!!

Evchen76

8:57AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Fantastic my dear!! Wonderful! You are so good! wish u a wonderful Day...Kiss Eva

venerella

9:23AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

ehy lil angel... not that easy sometimes to love ourselves uh? Not at all. I well know what ya meant, and have it tried, and even if I think that time is over I know to be a liar... is never finish, I never finish to look at what you call 'temple', to go up and down, to be scared of what I could or should be. At the end, we women don't like the way we are. Up and down, down and up... and we loose our health. Have it tried, more than one time. I understand you ;=))) May all advertisers understand how they hurt young and less young people, may they try all of this themselves to understand what they do to our health. Kisses, lot of love ;=)))

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Fogge

9:29AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Fantastic poem and an amazing and creative artwork. Excellent work!

cockjuice

9:39AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

You are right as usual. The health of the mind is much more permanent than your physical body shape. Your piece looks to be very surrealistic. Very cool! Hugs.

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borsy

9:52AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Magnificent work of art, Meli!!! Excellent concept and beautifully executed!!!! -v-

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jwdell

10:06AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Awesome work and statement!! cough I'm gonna get kicked out of my temple if I don't quit smoking...

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tibet2004uk

10:12AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

This is all so true sweet Meli! And sad also that many people's life are dictated by the standards of beauty set by the medias! Pathetic really! I think we've all been through that phase of hating ourselves as part of the growing process! Fortunately, most of us, I think, achieve that confidence in ourselves as we grow older! A beautiful poem my dear Meli! :) And u look gorgeous to me! ;)

zoku01

11:10AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Oh Meli you are a such a wonderful and beautiful person inside and out. I love how you are so expressive in you artwork and I always find out something about you. Excellent artwork.

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che18530

11:47AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

First of all...the image is wonderful...so full of elements to take in...the colors, textures and details. I especially love your poem and the wisdom you have gained over the years. You are such a special person and it comes through in everything you do! Have a wonderful day my dear friend!...Cheryl

vangogh

11:56AM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Hey! If I told you that you have a great temple...would you hold it against me! Sorry...I just couldn't pass on that tired old joke. Anyway, your message is excellent, and the constasts between the light and dark areas of the image work very well.

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i-popba

12:23PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

excellent colors...!!!love composition and details...so cool.,

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danob

1:16PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Lovely and thoughtful image I was thinking your use of muted colours meaningful in that your body is becoming a temple from your previous view not quite in technicolour but getting there!! Hugz

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madame

2:10PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Awesome work and I like a lot the words that goes with it, you are quite right ! Very creative artwork, Meli !!

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RodolfoCiminelli

2:44PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Eccellente lavoro Meli....!! Molto bella poesia....!!

Tedz

3:09PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Stand out Image..and the Body/Temple....some never discover until it is too late...We are what We Eat...gelato

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Elfenone

3:14PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

LOVE THAT! I think my body is a temple.. it's just a fluffy soft mama temple.. that is cuddly and smells like lilacs all the time LOL HUGE HUGS

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avalonfaayre

3:15PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

Wonderful poem, and great image concept. So true. Our body is a temple, not to be worshipped, but to worship from. Excellent.

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kansas

3:24PM | Tue, 21 September 2004

An amazing composition. Genetics has a lot to do with how our bodies are formed. We are not to abuse our bodies with gluttony or drugs. And we should not put too much emphasis on how we look. It really is what is inside that counts.

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