Day 807 of the Daily Poems … and this is of some interest:
our poet today Andrew Spencer introduces us to a definition of Beauty in the form of poésie concrète:
Beauty: a definition
We define beauty as that minimal unique property which
unifies at least the following phenomena:
M’s morning smile when the weather’s sunny
A sunset off Gozo twenty-odd years ago
An F5 category tornado
‘Journey of the Magi’, Magi Chapel,
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (B. Gozzoli)
‘Guernica’ (P. Picasso)
Pythagoras’ Theorem
e = mc2
The inscription on Trajan’s Column
Snake locomotion
The double helix (cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine)
A supernova
The Evening Star (Venus)
‘Augurs of Spring’ (from Rite of Spring, I. Stravinsky)
‘Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ (BWV639, J. S. Bach)
M’s voice when she’s narrating something funny
Andrew Spencer
