A young spring-tender girl
combed her joyous hair
‘You are very ugly’ said the mirror.
But,
on her lips hung
a smile of dove-secret loveliness,
for only that morning had not
the blind boy said,
‘You are beautiful’?
– Spike Milligan
That says it all, I think. Beauty, like all ineffable things, is subjective.
Tagged: beauty, love poetry, Spike Milligan
2 Comments
Lovely.
It is rather, no? I think of it as a love poem, though it isn’t one on the surface.