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Your Beauty Is Gentle
Your beauty is gentle -
a morning mist
lightly laving the sky.
Your beauty is quiet –
an indolent moon
drawn to idle tides.
Your beauty is certain -
an affirmative heart
thrumming with hope.
Your beauty is simple –
a trilling songbird's
intuitive notes.
Your beauty is kind –
amending everyone
blessed by its presence.
I cherish your beauty
and the beautiful soul
it represents.
I think this poem is going to become one of my guilty pleasures . . . I am really becoming quite fond of it, against my will actually, but that happens sometimes with poetry. Please forgive my intrusion with a second comment, but I just had to revisit this poem . . . and, again, I am overwhelmed by its beauty.
Starward
In over three decades of reading poetry, this is one of the most exquisite poems about beauty that I have ever read. Bravo! This poem has all the classic virtues---an understated tone, balanced brief lines, a conversational intimacy. This could have been written by one of the greatest of the epigrammatists of the Alexandrian or Roman schools. Again I say . . . Bravo!
Starward