Beauty Defined

[Dark Muse]

This one has been re-hased a lot, and this is currently the thrid re-write, and I am still not completly sure I want to keep this as its final draft

Beauty Defined

Is beauty a lie
a deception
pure illusion
or the only pure truth

when everything has admiration
in the eyes of someone, somewhere
who is left to declare
what is beauty
and what fails to compare

Found upon the
tilt of butterfly wings
caught within the sunlight
iridescent colors
reminiscent of a distant memory

The soft bloom of a flower
still kissed by the
morning dew

A silken spider web
which has ensnared
careless raindrops

It may perceived
in sky-reaching towers
city lights on a moonless
night

The form and structure
of cold hard steel
shaping elegant lines
to create the skyline
reaching for the greatness
and glory of man.

Is beauty for
the artist to decide
be it nature or man
or at the discretion
of the eye of its beholder

Beauty is universal
but has ever anything
been universally beautiful?

[ShadowFire]

I can't believe I am the first to post. It was gorgeous. No one can doubt the beauty of the poem. I have such respect for you as a poet now. That was truly...I can't even describe the awe I am in. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[qimissung]

This is good Dark Muse. I like poems that wondering and trying to answer unanswerable questions, and you go to some interesting places in yours.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you both, I have not been sure what to do about this poem, so I am glad that you like it