<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beauty of the Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Beauty of the Woman</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>For Thea and Alexi Katherine ~ 16 April 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The beauty of the woman is behind her touch<br>In the space between her fingers and the son’s <br>As he takes his first steppes <br>Between her hand and the daughter’s <br>As the father leads her down the isle</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beauty of the woman is behind her eyes.<br>In the circumference of each teardrop<br>Which shrunk: keeping pace with the contractions.<br>And disappeared when the daughter<br>Kicking and screaming was laid on her chest<br>Which became a stream of awe—wondrous</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even as the daughter found comfort on her breast<br>The beauty of the woman is behind her smile<br>Which she held through sleepless nights<br>Teething, feeding, monsters, and proms <br>Through the holding and the swaddling<br>Even the letting go… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beauty of the woman is in the strength<br>To hold, to watch, in love-eternally<br>To spend eternity letting go<br>Of the hand that grasped her pinky<br>And each little piggy-toe<br>The hand she felt inside her<br>Which made her beauty glow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beauty of the woman is <br>Something I’ve only seen <br>Something I know incompletely<br>But touch with my own hands<br>but the beauty fall between my fingers<br>and the beauty behind her hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aaron+Graham">Aaron Graham</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=575402" data-title="The Beauty of the Woman de Aaron Graham" data-description="The Beauty of the Woman For Thea and Alexi Katherine ~ 16 April 2011 The beauty of the woman is behind her touch In the space between her fingers and the son’s As he takes his first steppes Between her hand and the daughter’s As the fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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