Beauty is one of those experiences that you know it when you see it. It is found in both the most simple and the most complicated places.
In the simple and clear color of a new spring flower I experience a beauty that is timeless and awe inspiring.
And in the cathedrals of faith built over the span of a century by craftsmen and perhaps slaves who would never see it completed and yet whose labor added to its glory I experience beauty in all its complexity and grandeur.
All of it, takes my breath away and gives it back full.
Simple and Complicated Beauty
ReplyDeleteBeauty is one of those experiences
that you know it when you see it.
It is found in both the most simple
and the most complicated places.
In the simple and clear color
of a new spring flower
I experience a beauty that is timeless
and awe inspiring.
And in the cathedrals of faith
built over the span of a century
by craftsmen and perhaps slaves
who would never see it completed
and yet whose labor added to its glory
I experience beauty in all its complexity
and grandeur.
All of it, takes my breath away
and gives it back
full.
And even now, we are still building a cathedral of faith. Thank you for your poem!
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The Tree of Life!
Growing up into a starry cathedral dome,
With windows so clear they seem empty of glass
Like a ghost church,
It appears ancient;
A monolith
Reaching up to Heaven
Or from Heaven to the Earth,
Like Jacob's Ladder
Surely Sacred Space
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I love the Jacob's Ladder referece. Thank you for your poem!
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