Sotto Poet Poet Free verse

I Could Name Your Beauty

Written: May 2nd 2026, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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I could trace you
                   through the tremor of your hesitations,
          read the rippled residues of moments
     that tried to make you smaller.

I could catalogue the crenellations
                    carved by old ache,
             the tensile tenderness you carry
       like a secret you never meant to keep.
But beauty is not a ledger—
                 It is a lucent lilt,
                       a soft antiphon rising
        even when you feel moribund inside.

It is the way your presence
                    festoons a room with quiet gravity,
            how your stillness holds
                  a vernal vow of becoming.
      And though I can do nothing
           about the ache that shadows you,

I can witness you—
            unabated, unwavering—
                  and be undone
         by the simple, staggering truth
    that your beauty
does not ask to be seen
                                        but still
                                                        shines.

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Paige Hind May 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM very heart filled.... very beautiful

Darlene De Beaulieu May 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM Hello Setto, I enjoyed this poem on beauty. How are you? I hope all is well with you. Your friend, /Darlene/