Embrace the Beauty
Within the beauty of your golden crown
lies no concern for loss or thoughts
laid bare by harsh truths. Though winter
will surely come, hope never leaves us.
Spring will follow, again and again,
until we embrace the beauty
of our own bare branches.
This poem is my response to Quadrille #141: Heady is the Poem That Wears the Crown, the prompt from De Jackson at dVerse ~ Poets Pub, which is to use a form of the word crown in a 44-word poem (excluding title), with no required meter or rhyme.
Image: Maple at Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri
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That final couplet! Lovely!
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Thank you!
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xx
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Deeply moving, Ken, and golden with hope. In the last stage of my life, I find the sentiments here so wise.
Pax,
Dora
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🙂 Thank you, Dora.
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OOooooh… That’s wisdom.
❤
David
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Oh, goodness. These lines really got me:
“until we embrace the beauty
of our own bare branches.”
So good. And so important.
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Thank you, De. And thanks for the prompt.
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Beautifully written Ken. It seems it is just we humans who worry all the time about things we cannot change!
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So true, Dwight. Thank you.
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You are welcome.
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So lovely, Ken.
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Thank you, Merril.
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A fine message in masterful form. Touche’
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🙂 Thank you.
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Beautiful. Trees are inspirational, aren’t they? Those last two lines — isn’t that so difficult?
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That they are. And, It took me into my 60s to stop thinking i wasn’t getting old.
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Beautifully worded, with Nature showing her autumn glory colors to “demonstrate” that there is beauty in all seasons (of years, of each life) – intriguing to think of aging as embracing ever-barer branches! That’s a hint I’ll take and repeat to myself – thanks!
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And thank you!
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‘until we embrace the beauty of our own bare branches.’ – Wow! That is so revealing and thought provoking!
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Ah, I see we were a little connected, wonderful lines Ken.
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Thank you, Paul. I thought the same thing.
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Aww. Yes. Photo of Nature in her glorious outfit. Crowned majestically year after year. And then the last line… a stupendous reminder for us. Lovely. Thanks.
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Thank you so much, Selma.
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