["Beauty and the Poet" was first published in the Cardinal Poetry Quarterly circa 1965. It was included in my first poetry chapbook, The Lady in the Pink Hat, Candor Press, 1969.]
Beauty floated to me on silken wind And hovered hands outspread to offer free The gifts of Muses tone and harmony That I might write where scenes and visions blend. Beauty (she rarely comes to mortal fools) Pressed her precious secrets in my spirit Whispered a dream--only I could hear it Then shared with me alone the poet's tools.
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