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October 2009 
The Beautiful Changes
Posted on Sep 19th, 2006
by 
Rareflight
Rareflight
I've been collecting "beautiful poems". Ahh, but what's beautiful? What is beauty? yeah, yeah I know. But I subscribe to the Potter Stewart theory of "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." If you have some that fall in this category, please share! Anyway, here's one by Richard Wilber to give you the idea....
The Beautiful Changes
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides
The Beautiful Changes
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides
The Queen Anne's Lace lying like lilies
On water;
it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a Chameleon's turning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.
Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes
In such kind ways,
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.
Richard Wilbur - 1947
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