Category Archives: Beauty



Flora and Fauna

It’s mid-July;
The lotus plants
Burst into bloom.
Joan’s golden yarrows
Catch the eye
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Posted in Beauty, Death, Religion, Today's News, Uncategorized, War

Failure

Despite his Nobel Prize, Faulkner explained
That writers always fail. They cannot move
The aura that illuminates the brain
Into alphabetic squiggles that prove
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Posted in Beauty, Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Sculptors

Carving artists go way back, built the Sphinx.
Phidias, Myron, and Praxiteles,
Enraptured Greeks, shaped their gods, made us blink,
Awed by their skills and their creative ease.
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Posted in Aging, Beauty

Aesthetics

Famously, beauty resides in the eye
Of the beholder. How did it get there?
Explain why some approve while some decry
The same shapes, music, colors, sounds, and flair.
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Posted in Beauty, Illusion, Inspiration, Wisdom

At The Paddle Tennis Courts: Requiem For Michelle

One day Michelle, and her English bulldog
Ginger, came to the courts to learn the game.
Blonde, tall—nuanced slender curves stoked fierce flames
Among the benched old men who watched her jog.
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Posted in Beauty, Death, Pain

Poetry

Why and who, I wonder, wrote that first poem?
It was hard enough to move from gesture
To grunts, howls, inventing the lyric thrums
Of myriad language—words, rich and pure!
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Posted in Beauty, Poetry (What is it?)