Beauty

  

Beauty

 

 

If love can make a world go round

beauty puts a stop to revolution

insists on stillness, contemplation

the quiet of the eye.

Beauty consoles us

in the manner of a well-bred courtesan

whispering admiration

of our good taste.

Beauty glances back at us

as she bathes in our appraisal

starts at our infringement

wonders at her own arrangement.

If thought of beauty

conjures up the apple gold and true

or fictive wind

conveying Aphrodite at her birth

does beauty then, offer reasons

or but a coupling with the pleasure of our gaze?

Reviews

[Ken e Bujold]

beauty puts a stop to revolution is a splendid line my friend, though truth be told it has launched many the warship in its day