PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

If a tree ever thought about beauty, (if you could imagine that!)

would it wonder if its bark is a little too wrinkled…

or if its leaves make its head look too fat?

Does the blue jay who comes to our feeder and sees the cardinal circling overhead

ever get jealous of the other birds beauty and wish it was not blue but red?”

Does the sunflower standing tall in the garden swaying as the summer breeze blows

inspect all the flowers around it and wish it looked more like the rose?

Does nature ever think about beauty…do the oceans, the rivers…the stars

or are humans the only creatures on Earth…who wonder how beautiful we are?

Perhaps if we were more like nature…we would, like nature, be aware

not of our ephemeral beauty…but the beauty that’s already there.

The beauty that needs no mirrors, the beauty that nature extols…

The beauty that dwells in our hearts…

The beauty that exists in our souls.

Perhaps if we saw beauty like nature…perhaps then we’d be truly blessed…

for finding the beauty in others…would uncover the beauty we already possess.

And we would take our place in nature…next to the oceans the rivers and the stars

And we would never again have to give any thought…

or wonder…how beautiful we are.