LUNANCY ON BEAUTY

Lunacy on beauty
P K Routray

Beauty speaks to us in bold declarations or soft whisper,
She calls on us to gaze in awe at her splendor.
We are enticed by beauty and grandeur.
We adore her, idolize her, and even court her.
Beauty seduces all of our senses in unison or in isolation,
Beauty’s seduction can be as obvious and certain,
Looking at the striking good looks of a man or woman.
or as subtle as the charms of a shaggy dog with eyes loving brown.
We find beauty in the wonders of nature.
With every sunrise and sunset
Beauty offers us a symphony of many a color.
And reveals to us her brash power through a storm at sea.. Beauty sometimes piques all of our senses at once, we see.
Appealing to our taste buds, as well as our eyes and nose,
when she appears in the form of a deliciously baked cake and our saliva flows.
Beauty calms us with floral scents and excites our aural lust
through the passionate sounds made by an orchestra with its many an artist.
Love teases us through the shy smile of a child,
Delights us through brilliant light of fireworks, be it mild or wild.
Beauty can be cruel, when our pursuit of her can be in vain,
when We may go to the opera in anticipation of her and return with pain,
when Instead of us, beauty lavishes her attention on another suitor,
Who may be better appreciative of her charms and dearer to her.
Or, we may try to capture beauty’s essence in a photograph, painting, or sculpture,
and still she eludes us and is nowhere to be found in the centre.
Beauty may be cruel and fore shakes an artist in spite of his hard works on his canvas,
but she will always pose for her portrait, selecting the artist
who is most worthy of her, catching her likeness.
Depending on our personal tastes, beauty can be found in every color, flavor, scent, and texture.
She lives among kings and commons and the rich as well as the poor,
She appears in the faces of the male and female, the young and the old.
and blosms in the acts of a person either frightened or bold.
She is at home in the city, as well as the country,
decorating the rooms, skylines as well as landscapes in bounty.
Beauty knows no bounds, and we can find her everywhere.
All we have to do is to look for beauty, and she is there.