Beholding Beauty, for dVerse Poets, Apr 17, 2024

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Beholding Beauty

You are more beautiful than you think you are,
but we don’t tell you because
it is such a pleasure to see you unaware of it,
doing everyday things in such graceful ways.

You are the Burmese cat, stepping high
over the small sculptures
on the wall where he is fed,
his tail curving into a delicate hook.

You are vibrating leaves on the hibiscus tree
adding the contrast of green
to the one exquisite yellow bloom
with its fuchsia sunset middle.

You are a child whose violet eyes
open wider to each wonder––innocent,
never knowing yourself to be more beautiful
than what you observe.

You are music, harmonious, played
on the spur-of-the-moment with no rehearsal,
fingerpaints on the wall in an incredibly wild pattern
that could not have been planned.

You are the gourmet meal
made of leftovers from the fridge,
the wonderful costume gathered
from hangers at the thrift store.

You have a beauty
you were not born to––
one that is an amalgam
of every choice you make in life.

Beauty is in the eye
of the beholder, many say,
but it is impossible to imagine
a beholder who couldn’t see it in you.

 

I hope this follows the prompt for dVerse Poets–Poem of Address.

To see more poems written to this prompt, go HERE.

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

29 thoughts on “Beholding Beauty, for dVerse Poets, Apr 17, 2024”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Bentley, Bearcat and Patti.. Their mom, Kiddo, showed up from the redwood forest around us and stayed long enough to have her kittens and nurse and train them. Then she vanished. One day soon after their birth, she brought them up from my basement studio, where she had given birth, and had them all lined up in front of the sliding glass doors that let out onto the porch. Outside the glass was a big male British Blue cat the exact same color of the Mom, who was a Burmese Blue. and the kittens. I guess daddy came to see his new kids. I never saw him again.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I did, Kim. I kept all three kittens, although the mother vanished, as related above. Bearcat was still alive when I moved to Mexico 14 years later, and he came with me. I’ve written several blogs about him. I’ll see if I can find them and give you links so check back here, or perhaps I’ll do a blog on him. I loved those kittens and we had many adventures together.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          We have put my next book to music and there is a QR code on the cover so you can hear the words sung by Becky as you read the book! It is a children’s picture/story book.

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