With eyes closed tight, and arms stretched out
The top, uneven peak can make you flinch
Laying both palms along the parallel sides View table of contents...

Submitted: Jan 12, 2008    Reads: 45    Comments: 3    Likes: 1   

To See Beauty

 

With eyes closed tight, and arms stretched out

The top, uneven peak can make you flinch

Laying both palms along the parallel sides

All five fingers will not fit evenly throughout

Placing palms down, until resting on its front

Two fingers reach its narrow, oh so, eloquent top

Fingers curl, around tapered, sandy, layers

Alike a beach castle, so tranquil and precise

An extraordinary piece, so heavenly divine

Moving both palms down, curving inward

Then suddenly straight down

Bumps, groves, curves and creases

A sure likeness of myself to be felt

Reaching around the bottom, ocean waves

No; far too layered and smooth

Can ones touch be mistaken, is this even real?

To look with ones eyes and see only dark

Not knowing the truth, no direction at all

For only to feel in the dark, and finding out

Beauty exists within ourselves and in all.

 

© 2005 Katina M. Woodruff

 

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Comments:

MAmberConrad

What a beautiful poem, so full of imagery!
MA

Posted: Jan 14, 2008

Yeppers

I especially loved your last line: "beauty exists within ourselves and in all"

Posted: Jan 14, 2008

rickyengland

An interesting read.

Posted: Jan 16, 2008

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