What Is Beauty?
poem by:
John Prophet
Written
on Nov 04, 2016
What does it look like? What does it sound like? How does it read? Is there beauty in mathematics? Are physics formulations beautiful? Is artistic beauty in all its forms discovered or created? Did Isaac Newton invent his mathematics or did he discover it, like one discovers a planet? Where did the Mona Lisa come from? From some ethereal realm? A dream perhaps? What did Leonardo tap into to create such a work of art? Would it be appreciated by beings on the other side of the Universe? Is mathematics universal? Are computer codes? Genetic codes? Beethoven’s music discovered or created? William Shakespeare, what was he on? Where does the mind’s eye wander to obtain such things? Will earthly beauty translate elsewhere? Is beauty in all its forms universal, or unique to its origins? Is simplicity beautiful? Complexity? Are we all beautiful? Or, Is all beauty simply in the eyes of the beholder?
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Cecilia Crasto commented:
Great poem, and in the words of a song, "everyone is beautiful" and we all see things differently.
