Tuesday 11 August 2015

Beauty



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The beggar mother croons

A moon-song to her child

Its happy lips become that crescent

The sparrow finds a shade

Under a fig leaf

While Mother Nature lovingly sings

Her rain-song

The eternal Romeo and Juliet

Whisper love-song

Drenched in moonbeams

Martyrs caught in the web of hatred

Could only breathe love

Love is Beauty, Beauty Love

We need to breathe it

To survive

 

Posted for Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Beauty 


22 comments:

  1. Your poem shows us the many kinds of beauty one can find in this world! Yes, we do need to breathe it in. It is there for us if only we see.

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  2. I agree completely. I wrote something similar for the weekend on the need for love - it sustains us, but our culture right now is def not one that supports it. Love the nature touches.

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  3. I agree and wish I could have voiced it as well as you.

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  4. Indeed we do! A beautiful poem on the subject of Beauty.

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  5. so much beauty everywhere, we need an eye to catch it!

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  6. Love is Beauty, Beauty Love
    We need to breathe it
    To survive

    Love this! Indeed love is one of the greatest forms of beauty.
    Beautifully executed :D

    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  7. ah breath, most precious to the beat of life and so too beauty

    have a good Wednesday Sumana

    much love

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  8. To love is so calming so fulfilling the beauty of life bursts from us in joy.

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  9. Love overcomes. But not many realize this until they run foul of love's puzzling outcomes.

    Hank

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  10. There is nothing sadder than beggar mothers with their children in the street....I will never see beauty in that...just feel a great sense of disgust and shame because it is only through greed and indifference it exists.

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    1. I agree 100% but love of a mother and that of the child is something beyond poverty and it's true such love does exist in such hapless condition and often lacks in homes of the affluent...moreover beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

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  11. A beautiful portrait of the mother and son ~ Love & Beauty, we need them to survive ~

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  12. So true! Love is beauty.
    A wonderful poem, Sumana :)

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  13. This is so incredibly lovely, Sumana. Love the crescent moon lips of the happy well-loved child. Love the moon-song and the rain-song. Sigh. Just beautiful.

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  14. What a beautiful poem….mesmerizing images!!

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  15. Breathlessly beautiful Sumana!!!

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  16. Yes beauty must be inhaled. I love your words here Sumana.

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  17. Great poem, yes love is beautiful and we need more of it.

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  18. Oh yes.. that beauty I'm very particular too.. wonderful

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  19. This has such a gentle way of trailing down the page...each line is powerful on its own...lovely work and thank you, for the challenge, Sumana.

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  20. The love of a mother for a child is beautiful and in this poignant and layered rending, one is reminded that beauty and love can be found in even the most dire of human conditions. Lovely.

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  21. A wonderful poem, Sumana. Beauty is all around us, but we need to have beauty in our soul to see it...

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