beauty is
afterglow on a face you
want to bridge the gap to
a rickety bridge that holds on by old poles
strings that tether to the
connected ground
beauty rises;
in wings flying
beauty is like the sun spreading
it reaches like
writhing vines up to the
newly sprinkled sky
beauty flies;
blown by the high winds and
it’s in the leaves that have fallen;
beauty is in giving life, love
and beauty breeds in the
silence of the resting
the silence of the lived
beauty sleeps
in the amber painting the clouds, the silver linings;
new nights to live and to be
beauty is to know
to understand without words
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