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Finding Beauty
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Finding Beauty |
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James_A_Fraser Senior Member
since 2003-09-03
Posts 972Out Making Anticlines |
Finding Beauty Whatever is begun in love is beautiful already, and what beauty starts is likely to be loved. There is no strength in this, no accomplishment in finding what is good, desirable and there for all to see. You have another gift to give, more real, close to magic; to look at a barren branch and see the flowers, then search the fading flowers until you find their fruit. Buried deep in every discard there is worth, beauty to find for those with eyes to see it and a will to bring it forth. Finding, you share, and sharing, make it seem easy, obvious: Of course a life rejected would create a gentle spirit, and how could a naked waste fail to become a garden? In your eyes, in your hands, how could rejection fail to turn to love? You shame me. How can I, a poet miss these quintessential things? How can I, eyes perfect, be yet blind to clarity, focus on the map, the road, and fail to perceive the journey? Teach me this, to find the beauty, help me find the joy and love where all seems bleakest Learning such a thing would be itself a beauty, and finding beauty is your gift; I would ask it of you. Search me, find that beauty within me. If it is there, you’ll find it, and if it can be shared, I know you will. [This message has been edited by James_A_Fraser (11-12-2003 06:05 PM).] |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Absolutely breath taking, and so full of the beauty that lives within us all. You are a true poet in every sense of the word, James_A. |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
Beautiful indeed. I like this very much. :-) |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
to look at a barren branch and see the flowers, then search the fading flowers until you find their fruit. Vivid images woven with such tenderness... I certainly found beauty when I opened this treasure. *S* Thank you for sharing it with us... It's superb! |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (smiles) Awwwwwwwww, this is sooooooo beautiful, sweet friend, you truly know where beauty is as you scoop it and fill all your poems with it as evident here! (big hugggsssssss) Keep searching for rainbows, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet James, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Search me, find that beauty within me. If it is there, you’ll find it, and if it can be shared, I know you will. These words already show the beauty within you James. Very nicely done. Chris  Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Tagore |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
an awesome write...more awesome ending |
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SharaRose Member Elite
since 2003-07-19
Posts 2501Somewhere out there~ |
Nice... |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
You have another gift to give, more real, close to magic; to look at a barren branch and see the flowers, then search the fading flowers until you find their fruit. Buried deep in every discard there is worth, beauty to find for those with eyes to see it and a will to bring it forth. Finding, you share, and sharing, make it seem easy, obvious: Of course a life rejected would create a gentle spirit, and how could a naked waste fail to become a garden? In your eyes, in your hands, how could rejection fail to turn to love? ============================ This is a very very cool write.... one I wish I had wrote...and thats a poets poet compliment. Very lovely, well done poet sir. Words break into splinters on the pages I write |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
"Beauty to find for those with eyes to see it"...nice writing...James |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
quote: wish I'd written this line myself a very enjoyable good write! |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I'm playing catch-up... and couldn't resist reading this beauty again. *S* |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Jamie...There is beauty in everything, and it comes from the eye of the beholder. You are beautiful! |
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