Blind

Kevin Anderson 1965 (Ill)



Beautiful is a great stake of mind....
In the eye of the beholder Beauty shines...
Only the surface does the beauty show....
What's in the heart of the Beautiful one never knows...

Still waters run deep into the depths of a soul...
Trails and tribulations go untold
The pain that smothers the smiles reason for being...
The eyes of the beholder never truly seeing...
 
If ugliness wasn't a burden in trenched in with the bones...
The eyes of the beholder wouldn't care to seek the beauty nor condone...
The pain and strife with the ugliness is shown...
Yet beauty is sought while the deep of it's ugliness goes unknown...

Beautiful is a great stake of mind....
In the eye of the beholder is blind...
Only the surface does the beauty show its fragile face....
What's in the heart of the Beautiful one never knows the depth of disgrace...

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The other side of beautiful

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Written on October 27, 2022

Submitted by kevina.22744 on October 27, 2022

Modified by kevina.22744 on November 22, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axxx xxbb xccc Aadd
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 839
Words 166
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Kevin Anderson

From ghetto fabulous to military standards with customs and courtesies. The Path taken in life from the United States of America to far and distant lands has indubitably exposed me bare. The adventure has made the person; the man. Born in Illinois, raised in East St. Louis and Royal Lakes, from there the fam hightailed it to California. Dallied in Inglewood then Bompton or Compton, some do say. Signed my name on the dotted line bringing the world into full view. I joined the United States Air Force in 1986, fully retired in 2016, 30 years of honorable service and of making life do what it does so I can do what I do when I do what I do communicating my thoughts or a few. more…

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