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“I don’t
think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank
Emily Dickinson says, “Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Ruskin Bond in his story Most
Beautiful writes, “Ugly
is just a word”, I said, “Like Beauty. They mean different things to different
people….” The narrator assumes that ‘Beauty’ is a relative term.
In
the poem Beauty XXV Khalil Gibran says: The aggrieved and the injured say,
"Beauty is kind and gentle.
Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory
she walks among us."
I came across a beautiful quote by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss American
psychiatrist and a pioneer in near-death studies: People are stained glass
windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets
in their true beauty is revealed, only, if there is a light from within.
Beauty
is hidden everywhere and in everything, methinks. Only the eye of the beholder
finds it or let me put it in H.G. Wells’ way : Beauty is in the heart of the
beholder.
This
week you are to Walk in Beauty. What’s beautiful to you; what’s not; where it’s
still found; where it’s missing and anything and everything related to Beauty.
A
couple of Poems :
Beautiful by Carol Ann Duffy
Pied Beauty by Gerard
Manley Hopkins
Please share your poem using Mr. Linky below and visit others in the spirit of the community. Please include this link in your post.
A wonderful topic to contemplate, Sumana - the beauty that remains. I am fortunate to walk in beauty here on the coast. It is what gives me solace, and saves me, in these unrelentingly hard times. Thank you for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sherry. I so enjoyed your beautiful poem. Beauty is truly life giving.
DeleteHi everyone! I hope you enjoy the prompt and write to your heart's content. Smiles.
ReplyDeleteThank you for a chance for allowing us to look at beauty of the world
ReplyDeleteComment for your poem: "a union of body and mind" and heart, as you reveal by the end of your poem. Beautiful indeed.
DeleteNice to see you Jae and so lovely to read your Beauty-poem.
DeleteI wrote on this theme just recently, so I linked that poem~
ReplyDeleteThank you Jennifer. I really enjoyed reading your poem. Thank you for Joining us.
DeleteThank you for this great prompt Sumana. We need to be reminded of the surfeit of beauty in this world. Like your quotes and poems. Will return for a second reading. We learned that GM Hopkins poem at school. Strange reading it again. Brought back a lot of memories.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rall. Your poem was a feast to my mind, eyes and ears. Enjoyed the audio and the visuals so much.
DeleteSherry, I took a bit of a different journey with the word beauty
ReplyDeleteFor your poem: Beauty is throughout: in sorrow, in the tattoo, in your hand and eye!
DeleteAs Susan says Beauty is throughout your poem. A very much moving poem, Susie.
DeleteThank you, Sumana, for this most excellent prompt! So glad to join in and come back to read others' poems.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely to see you Dora. Thank you for your beautiful poem. Sumana
DeleteHappy Saturday, all! I wrote another poem in response to this beautiful prompt, but since the rules are to link only one poem, I won't link it. But here it is in case anyone wants to give it a read:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.poetlaundry.com/2025/03/stone-mountain-lovers.html