<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448313" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beauty-See Beauty-Don't</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was in her face, <br>in the contours of her<br>beauty lines<br>a past smoothing out<br>which I could see<br>would match<br>her older photographs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The older her<br>only hinted at <br>that prior<br>state.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I took my time<br>to look at her<br>now past 55<br>to see <br>in that older landscape<br>what my eye<br>sought<br>in her face at twenty and five..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could not the face<br>before me <br>be seen<br>on its own terms? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where is that beauty<br>line between <br>beauty and non-beauty? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it the tightness of the skin<br>the twinkle in the eye, <br>healthy look or <br>non-healthy look? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What's true is that<br>my own Western <br>eye<br>can only see age; <br>not nobility; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">only TV screen beauty-<br>not maturity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you know <br>there are a myriad of exceptions; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">children don't see age<br>the same way we do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">nor does most of the world.<br>What is going on here?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</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=448313" data-title="Beauty-See Beauty-Don't de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="There was in her face, in the contours of her beauty lines a past smoothing out which I could see would match her older photographs. The older her only hinted at that prior state. But I took my time to look at her now past 55 to see in that o..."></div> </div> </div>

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