This poem has been revised and thus, deleted.
However, I didn't want to lose my previous comments,
since many people were so kind in their observations.
Thank you all for your support.
Author notes
Sorry about the "novella", but I wrote all 3 pieces while thinking about
this picture & quotation, so how could I do otherwise?
Contest quotation & first picture prompt courtesy of poet2angels
Graphic artists unknown
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
~Kahlil Gibran
image credit:
www.area105.com/2d1.html">www.area105.com/2d1.html">www.area105.com/2d1.html
A contest entry
- Beauty..........Quote or pic inspired Quickie by poet2angels.
475 points, ended October 13, 2008, 16 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
So, what do ya think, people?
Comments
1 - 30 of 30
-
Bewildered by Beauty
Bewildered by Beauty, surrendering to its silence, lost in translation ~ entranced beyond limitations of language, even for one who wanders freely through the Eden of words worth from Wanda's gleanings well harvested
-
Ah... "Poetry in the making,/ancient arts revealed." Has always been my understanding. Beautiful poem with much insight.
@};--,--
-
Outstanding
This is a poem with a lot of depth and integrity. I liked how you used questions to set the mood of the poem and to challenge expectations. The ending reaches out to everyone. Your imagery is well chosen and intricate and finds humanity as something with limitless possibilities. Very much a pleasure to read and congratulations on the gold trophy.
-
I am one who suggests that we never halt the pen when there is more to express. There is so much "beauty" written in each passage. I feel love, loss, and memories. Beautiful! Congratulations on earning the Gold Cup. Beauteous poetry!
Much Love Always ♥
Renee
-
oh
love that first piece of art
-
golden as it should be
actually I like longer writes, so many here want 20 lines or less and yes it has a place, but I love to see something develop and take you by the hand
yours always have
you have this real thing girl
comes from the inside.... out
what is it you always say
pretiful...lol
love ya and congrats
peace and huge hugs
Muddy
-
PS .....as in my other favorite of yours...length does not matter when quality is such as this...
-
Sigh~
I think I have a new favorite poem of yours...I always had my favorite one, but this one, wow......
You took both the quote and the image and what seems like snapshots from your life past present and future and created such a timeless piece of beauty...
I am truly speechless....
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!
Lynda
-
This is not a novel but beautifully penned poetry, hard even to comment it with the right words.
~S~
-
You are the princess of words.
-
I cannot get over this poem
you're absolutely amazing
this is the best poem ive read in so many years.
and im a cummings fan
You took me on an emotional journey.
-
-
Thank you, very much. Please check out my favorite published AP Poets (listed on my author's page). They're far more amazing than I; it is they who have taught me so much these past 4 years. Thank you for your kind words. Be well, Poet. 
-
-
My wife and i are reading your poem and we think you should get gold.
Amazing Amazing Amazing
I havent read a poem like this in years.
wow. -
Wanda, you are forcing me to reorder the world in my head! When I think of Oklahoma I think "Annie Git Yer Gun",or Toby Keith (my wife's favourite Oklahoman), or Leon Russell (my favorite).I think of dust and displaced Cherokees and and twisters and bison and horizons too far away to see! If there is anything American in your poetry it would seem to have been writen Savanna:1860 or a New England town square on a Sunday morning. But even more it would have been writen in a cedar grove on a Lebanese mountain side or in the moonlight by an Irish lake...
What do they put in the water in Tulsa!?
-
-
Oklahoma City, Scribe. I put coffee in my water.
P.S. Besides, I was born & raised in Kansas.
-
-
I take it then that you passed from Kansas to Oklahoma through Oz...
-
-
Yeahhh, but instead of the yellow brick road, we took the highway.
-
-
Well I remain mystified, then...
Congratulations on the gold! (But, frankly, this was a platinum effort!) -
-
Awww, shucks, Scribe. Thank you kindly. 
-
-
-
-
-
-
Beautiful, Wanda, to follow your thoughts. I love the third part, and the hope.
I am surrounded by miracles and music, thank you for reminding me.
-
Yours is beauty in windy reverberation,
the blush of older finding new,
craving crush in vetter view,
inside my whispering feather's trepidation...
so beautiful scribe of many sound in simple prayer
-
And what a blinding light it is, when you write about it, hon. Simply stunning work, makes me think I should try to be more appreciative, and being Thanksgiving here today, definitely food for thought.
Thank you!
-
what a treat to read. beautiful
-
This is so beautiful. This poem just made me feel good to read, like there is still a possibility to make something great and passionate happen. This is a true work of art.
♥
whisper
-
beauty is here..
..on this page, and it shines from every word of these three beautiful poems, Vlindertjie. You know what I always say: "one has to carry the beautiful to be able to see (or write) it"...you definately carry it - and it shows. I agree with Marc, this might be part of your next poetry book. Great writing, deep sighs, simply beautiful.
~ Nicolette
-
lovely
These words come to mind as i read this lovely work.
Turning on capricious fate Kisses whispering a promise for ever more..
light and love
Robert
-
words flow with ease and grace with full emotion reaching the human heart....angel in the shadows filled my eyes (i don't know why)... and time and mixed feelings running in the last parts
-
Novella . . . my ass . . . now look who's apologizing!!!!! This speaks so clearly to the yearning, the deep longing of the human heart . . . Don't cha do anything to this one Swan because it could be a centrepiece for your next volume . . . BEAUTIFUL!!
ps . . . good to see ya back, missed you of late . . .
take care of your body and mind,
Marc
-
Promise ... sing
Triptych starting with adroit alliteration then attempting three sides of a coin with edged finesse. Nevertheless it may be thought appropriate to link three separate entries through the notes and offer as many presentations with an identical picture ?
Adding your comment:
1 - 30 of 30
