<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366578" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Today I'll Look for Beauty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This Sunday morning <br>from my usual booth at McD's<br>I thought to look for something new<br>For which my eyes to please<br> <br>I decided this day to look for beauty<br>In actions, form and graces<br>And as I gazed, I was amazed<br>At what I perceived in those faces</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little dark eyed Mexican girls <br>Of an age no more than three<br>With umber eyes and ebony curls<br>Stared wide-eyed back at me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smiled at such a charming sight<br>They smiled right back at me<br>Their mother turned, in a bit of a fright<br>To see what their children could see</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then her quizzical look lost it's tension<br>At seeing naught but an old smiling man<br>The little girls, sharing nothing of mom's apprehension <br> Happily wiggled hello with all the fingers on both hands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In sharp contrast, at a small table, all alone<br>Sat a thin regal old lady (probably my age, truth be known) <br>She possessed that quality of being hewn from stone<br>That hieroglyphic quality of ancient queens on their throne</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A thin nose, somewhat hooked with age<br>Flinty eyes, of a much faded blue<br>A woman who could have commanded a stage<br>T'was it not for a family and too much to do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But even given, the wrinkles and lines<br>That starburst out from her mouth and her eyes<br>Methinks they speak of beauty (tho crinkly in kind) <br>And make her e'en more pretty (at least to ol' guys) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a contrast in beauty, before me today<br>The loveliness of the aged, so obvious to see<br>And the beauty of the children that will graciously change <br>Into the beauty of women of a certain age</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My butt's getting tired, coffee's all drunk<br>Enough with my thinking, I must be up and without<br>Perhaps by this noon I'll be drunk as a skunk<br>And then I'll have something else to go on about</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366578" data-title="Today I'll Look for Beauty de David Whalen" data-description="This Sunday morning from my usual booth at McD's I thought to look for something new For which my eyes to please I decided this day to look for beauty In actions, form and graces And as I gazed, I was amazed At what I perceived in those faces ..."></div> </div> </div>

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