The reality of beauty is carried by the context—by the surprise of plain, drab, inconspicuous things, or no-things, interacting. By the way they intertwine, they reveal each other, cast light onto each other. ‘Beauty is in the ensemble’. It is the ensemble, the choir.
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As a poet, my attitude toward beauty is entirely positive. The beauty of a work of art is earned through enormous effort, skill, and attention on the part of its creator. A poem can be beautiful on all sorts of levels: the visual, the aural, the intellectual, the emotional, the imaginative.
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Here’s what Emily says about capturing beauty: “The flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.”
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Beauty is the long breath between seeing and coming to some sort of understanding, the tiny detail that attaches itself to your heart—the dance of honeybees, the slash of sunlight across a wooden floor, the invisible workings of the world. Beauty is everywhere we dare to find it.
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Flannery O’Connor had a penchant for the weird & the wild and a gift for finding beauty in both. After writing 101 poems in her voice, I have come to appreciate the strangeness she admired and become a convert to her brand of beauty. For what is symmetry, proportion, wholeness, and perfection—all classical ideals of beauty—set beside the homely, the lonely, the plain, and the maimed?
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Life took me to Phoenix, where I still, after forty years here, recognize sunlight as the first ingredient of beauty. The spare beauty of the desert continues to bind me to the area, and it also highlights the fragility of so much we regard as being beautiful.
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Laurie Byro and Michael Byro: Five Poems and Five Paintings The River of the Sambra ...
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For this modest scribe, absolute beauty inheres in the faces (and expressions) of my children. It has something to do with purity and innocence (and probably a dash of DNA.) Absolute beauty has a spiritual or transcendental dimension.
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A million moons bursting while a spellbinding white silence erupts, engulfing it all. While the trail of stardust and the delicious naivety of my mouth on yours whisper promises we could never keep. Holding on with my fingernails devouring flesh and bone…
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Creating beauty requires identifying or forging connections that may be invisible or overlooked without the insights of the artist, the musician, or the writer.
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