The Most Beautiful

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    The Most Beautiful

    I can just go blind now, 

    I confess, if but to only you,

    Mine eyes have seen the glory. . . 

     

    It's my own private story

    But before I die, some other eye

    Needs to see that glory, too.

     

    We follow after rainbows

    Hinting beauty in the storm

    We hope the nighted traveler

    Finds harbor from liife's storm

     

    We travel far in search of beauty

    For some transcendant truth

    We risk our lives, if by chance to find 

    The fabled fountain of our youth

     

    As I think with fading eye-sight

    How the world has dimmed all light  

    The most beautiful wonder of my life

    is the way you look tonight.


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    Teardrops commented on The Most Beautiful

    01-21-2011

    If you ever let her read this your love for her will we shouting from the highest mts. Great poem sir truly love is yours Marie
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    HarverTomsson

    01/21/2011

    OK, this is good. but poetry only works on poets, and those who appreciate the idea of hyperbole. A concrete thinker says, "How insincere!" Harv

    Teardrops

    01/22/2011

    My question is do we care about a concrete thinker ? live love and be happy Marie

    ginga commented on The Most Beautiful

    01-21-2011

    Harv, passion and beauty reign supreme here in this mesmerizing morsel. ginga
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    HarverTomsson

    01/21/2011

    Thank you, ginga. Sometimes that's what's on the mind. LOL Harv

    Olan01 commented on The Most Beautiful

    01-20-2011

    Harv, to me the poem speaks of unearthly beauty and a search with human vision and the "eye" speaks of a spiritual beauty, perhaps a muse, succubus, siren or guide/angel. Line 3 of stanza one suggests the glory of the coming of the Lord… left unfinished but implied. In life we search for beauty, for eternal life outwardly but we have all of that already if we seek by looking inward for inside of us are the keys to knowledge and eternal life; the trees of knowledge and life are not out there somewhere but inside us. When the bible suggests the cherubim guard entry to Eden, this Eden is inside only visible with the single eye, the last place we search. Olan.
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    HarverTomsson

    01/20/2011

    Olan what tea are you drinking? You got all that metaphysical stuff out of that, or was this a chance to pour some conversation into it? I am entertained, nevertheless. Be well. Harv

    Olan01

    01/20/2011

    Green tea, lol, but not that pale green broth my Japanese friends offered me. No, I glean all that from you poem as I read it closely. Interpretation is tricky for we have to filter it through our brain and its experiences, plus I have read some of your other poems and have my own guides in my life, smile. Olan.

    poett commented on The Most Beautiful

    01-20-2011

    magnificent words of love, romanticism to someone whom you must admire inside out because describing such beauty the way you did has to be told by the heart & eye too... lucky lady
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    HarverTomsson

    01/20/2011

    You read with discernment. Or else you read all the preceeding commentary. Harv

    gogant commented on The Most Beautiful

    01-20-2011

    I like this, Harv................it has that touch of beauty not seen as lovely as what we wish, or think we do...................................g
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    HarverTomsson

    01/20/2011

    Of course we poets find perception more important than sensation. So we don't have to see something to see something, and that's something that drives non-poet spouses bananas at times.

    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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