“What Is Beauty?...”

A sonnet that asks what is beauty, and offers an answer in response.

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What is Beauty? Is it Truth? Is it Art?

Or the mean of the Golden Ratio?

Whatsoe'er beauty is, it does not show

in the vain and ugly, but in the heart

of them where love and charity take part;

it manifests in the wise, who all know

that hatred's a sin we must overthrow

(to supersede with the reason of Descartes).

O lo!...beauty's what's perceived in thine eyes,

where the gleams of compassion and brilliance

mingle, in proportions none can surmise;

beauty's thy lips, whence comes the eloquence

of a Poet, who, like a lark at sunrise,

tunes lines rivaled only by thine elegance.

By Ngoc Nguyen

From: United States