Beautiful?
"Our beautiful fruit ..." a politician's speech.
It's not the first description I would choose.
But when I read the words I don't object.
"Beautiful's" a fair adjective to use.
Yes, I think it's quite acceptable,
It was one of ours that said it, and I'm glad.
Anyone who can't speak of "beautiful fruit"
without embarrassment, is surely rather sad.
But this other politician? When he praises
"Our beautiful steel mills" does one stick at that?
Beauty? I think of racing yachts, some statues
like the Venus of Cyrene, or a cat.
Some poetry, sun on a wide river, a vast host
of things, even some people. But steel mills?
One thinks of smoke, and furnaces, and din
and drudgery, and carelessness that kills.
But better to have something real to point to,
something to celebrate, something to sing,
better to invoke a steel mill's beauty
than to embrace the void, opt out of everything.
A contest entry
- Beauty in everything by new born.
525 points, ended October 30, 2008, 18 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Please look over my rules. I agree, it is much better to see the beauty in something real than to say something imagined is beautiful just because you have to call it something. However, it is far better to acknowledge the beauty of something impermanent than to look for something that makes absolute sense and then call it beautiful.
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READ THE RULES PEOPLE and good write tho. -
you know, i was thinking about this poem and had to come back and read it again....it reminds me so much of something Komer or John Alexander would writer, those soldier poets who rallied for change and justice...i was just thinking that and wondering, i know you publish, i had you site bookmarked on my old computer, but do you use your skill with words to rally minds and hearts in some socio-political forum?...you are a very potent writer.
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very interesting....i like the form and diction immensely...as for the topic...very smart. nice work.
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