The Potent Beauty of Paleness Or To a Pale Pink Blossom

How could I’ve forgiven myself, 
amongst all the vibrant blossoms in the garden, 
to have missed you,
so gentle and subtle in your paleness.
 
For the world’s beauty dwells in paleness, too.
Eternal beauty’s in subtleness and the muted,
In the restrained and the ashen.
It’s in the absent and the hinted.

And missing you would have been,
Like a kind and tender countenance, unseen,
A gentle caress, unnoticed, 
A truthful whisper that was missed,
A never received blown kiss.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Mehta Avatar
March 24, 2014 at 9:31 AM
Congratulations on your poem being featured this week, Lovely write, sergio
Silveira Avatar
July 23, 2013 at 6:09 PM
To see a picture of the pale flower that inspired this poem, please visit my Facebook Flowers and Poems page at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Secret-of-Ravelston/363837500393876?ref=hl Thanks!
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