Three tiny poems about beauty

[rayheinrich]

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Three tiny poems about beauty:
 
 
 
        < beauty >
     
     is the stuff you like
     
     but have forgotten 
     
     why
     
          - - -
     
     
     
     
        < beauty >
     
     this writing we do
      
     is not owned by Exxon Mobil
     (or Barclays or China or Google)
     
     though it would be
     
     if it were useful
     if it were valuable
     
     which is the beauty of 
     
     this writing we do
     
          - - -
     
     
     
        < beauty >
     
     they're shipping back 
     box after box of it
     
     too much
     
     there's too much 
     on the market
     
     and nothing
     
     just nothing 
     
     to use it for
     
          - - - 

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Comment made elsewhere but pasted here for grins:

It seems to me that the 'beauty' in poetry is the same 'beauty' that's
found everywhere else. And, as the first poem said, beauty is evoked
by something you liked for a specific reason (or your parents or
society or evolution did and you learned it from them/it/it). Later,
having forgotten the reason (or having never known it), you are left
with just the feeling. (Like learning to catch a ball, after a while you
don't have to think about it.)

Beauty is probably a positive motivator like the taste 'sweet', and like
the negative 'pain' and taste 'bitter'. We evolved to be able to feel it
because it helped us survive.
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P.S. originator specifies: FRA,CRE