seeking beauty






as long as i love beauty i am young,
am young or old as i love more or less




words excerpted from john davies' "seeking beauty"

radiance


autumn leaves

like torn pieces
of origami paper

fall
from the sky

silent
and
rain-silvered

fading

thin fading dancers
small tattered edges
caught in the wind
their silvered bodies
carve
smaller arabesques

their songs
now sung
in grey whispers


in the autumn wind




in the autumn wind,
hark! voices raised with the sails,
these boats approaching
cross from a skybound shore:
the geese are here.


words by an anonymous poet who entered a poetry competition held by
her majesty the empress during the kanpyo era

the fitful tracing

a season's fallen bounty still ripe with colour





beauty is momentary in the mind
the fitful tracing of a portal

words excerpted from "peter quince at the clavier" by wallace stevens