NOT BEAUTY (in dying notes discovers)
It is not nature's beauty
I desire
A perfect smile, an old oak tree's
Despair
Nor rainy children, nor poverty's hand
Or
My lover's red hair
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Don't sing to me
Of Billie's blues
Or remind me of the heroin
Which stole her radiant bloom
For,
It is not nature's beauty
That I desire
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I need only my ability
To observe
And to slowly sip
From adventure's precarious
Yet fleeting
Wine flagon,
And mostly to write of that
Which nature
Reveals to us All
Inside
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For I am but
The soft, complaining
Woodwind instrument
Upon which nature's beauty
Blows
And if precious music
In dying notes
Discovers
That I am here
Then
I am most happy
To have lived
Observantly
At all...
Tony Taylor
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A wonderful work of art Tony! It flows so beautifully and carries the reader along in its wake-stunning...simply stunning x
Lodigiana
Yay!:.....Thanx LG!! (hope you don't mind the shortened version of your name).......I DO so appreciate the support dear poet sister!!..... lovely comment...... Kings to you my friend!!...... smiles....T xo ?☀✴♥???
My apologies, I have forgotten how great a poet you are! WOW! Truly inspiring dear friend! Kudos dear Tony! I won't be a stranger! LOVE and Rockets!!! Jake xox
No worries JAKE!!.....I am just happy that you're back on the pages brother!!....thanx SO MUCH for this !!.....hugs-n-high fives!!.....T xo ?✳✴♥☀??
My Dear Brother Poet Tony,
The beauty I seek is spiritual
For it captures my heart, and makes it full
I've lived my life so often flawed
But now, for nature do I applaud
Peace, Love and Rockets,
Larry xxx
Thanx LARRY!!.... you snuck up on me.....I didn't know this was here!!...... high fives on the awesome poetic feedback kind Sir!!.....ttyl......T xo ✴?☀✴♥✳??
Dear Tony,
I just read Jeremy Hennessee's remarkable response to this, and I am embarrassed that mine is so succinct. I'm going to have to make mine longer, and that's the short of it.
Peace, love and Rockets,
Larry xxx
You painted the picture perfectly and the canvas was designed for the reader to dwell! Love ❤️ ur art it inspires me!