Day 799 of the Daily Poems. Yesterday’s poem from Brian Ford described the beauty of a differently abled young lady; it leads today to your Editor’s musings on beauty itself, from ‘Songs for a Daughter’.
On Beauty
Beauty is an aurora,
it is malachite, alchemy,
obsidian, viridian,
it is cornelian.
Beauty is chalcedony,
phosphorescence,
an equinox, an alembic,
it is filament.
Beauty is an escarpment,
an upland meadow,
it is grass, it is fire,
it is green, it is velvet.
Beauty is alabaster, absinthe,
amethyst, cerulean,
Schiehallion, vermilion,
it is amber and pearls.
Beauty is hazel and blue
in her eyes.
Such beauty.
It is a blessing.
Peter Ualrig Kennedy
from my collection Songs for a Daughter: Vole Books Dempsey & Windle 202
