I Have Always Wondered...

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...about what drives people to write poetry.  I've been around for awhile (not too much longer), and I thought I had distilled the essences of life down to five:

1) Truth
2) Wisdom
3) Love
4) Justice
5) Beauty

I thought to myself that those who would endeavor in poetry must have a bias towards beauty of these five.  

What is the BEAUTIFUL?  

I just started this thread as...what...a personal reflection for all upon the "beautiful".

I'm not sure I'd put wisdom on the list, I think it might be just enjoying the other four, but anyway

They all have something in common, that shiny kernel that glows in wonky perfection, what any change would lessen.

I think we mopey, pondering humans are so lucky to be living on this constantly changing globe of variety whose beauty can soothe us if we stop long enough to perceive it. I think any art, whether the artist (human) chooses to record it or not, isolates a bit of that beauty so it can be admired, examined, experienced, shared.

I think it is the soothing of pain rather than the causing of it that is beautiful. That's doesn't mean that beauty can't remind you of the pain, just that it relieves it in some way for a moment.

I may be full of shit, coffee's ready. Hi, Nobody,