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beauty
is like standing
on crumbling land.
it comes sometimes in disguise
offering it's unanticipated surprise
when seen to disappear
like rain-showering
skies that have gone away despite our appearances never
ever
changing.

Thomas Bates

Thursday, June 12, 2014

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no real story here, but if I had never read WILDE'S The Picture of Dorian Grey then this thought would've never put down to paper :)

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Dr Antony Theodore 03 September 2017

it comes sometimes in disguise offering it's unanticipated surprise..... you have pictured the experience of beauty in a very fine way. thanky ou dear poet. tony

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Howard Savage 16 September 2016

Great poem with profound metaphors and fortified emotions. Great spirit.

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F J Thomas 12 June 2014

So it is isn't it :) Beautiful Thomas

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