Monday, October 16, 2017

Ode to a Beautiful Bust







                           


                1.                   A beautiful bust cut in marble white
                                      With life-like features and beauteous brow
                                      In artistic shape with an angelic glow
                                      My bosom warmed with feelings bright.

               2.                   A beautiful bust with lips of rose
                                      In graceful curves with a bashful smile
                                     With innocent looks far from guile
                                      With a delicate well-proportioned nose.

               3.                  A beautiful bust with bright snowy curls
                                     Like Cynthia or Juno with dimpled cheeks
                                     So soft and white like roses sleek
                                     Beauty’s natural charms her smiles unfurl.

              4.                  A beautiful bust above our swift-winged change
                                    With a snowy neck in simple garlands worn
                                    Gleams like white moon in early morn
                                    Beyond our earthly fancy, beyond human range.

              5.                  A beautiful bust without crude pompous show
                                   Who carved it in such proper shape sublime?
                                   Perhaps an ancient goddess of ancient times
                                   With a crown of leaves adorning her brow.
        
              6.                A beautiful bust with no waxen dreams
                                  To struggle and strain with throbbing pain
                                  But to smile and smile with happy beams
                                  Fringed with angels in pretty design.

              7.                A beautiful bust in deathless domain
                                 Where body and soul in bliss combine
                                 Harmony carved in spiritual shine
                                 That peaceful ecstasy can I attain?

              8.              A beautiful bust with a saintly face
                                With a halo star-like glowing light
                                With silken curls and visage bright
                                A true goddess in marble form I trace.

             9.               A beautiful bust with perpetual smiles
                               Unperturbed by tides of wayward time
                               In festive mood forever in youthful prime
                               Inspiring all with cute features agile.

          10.             A beautiful bust reflecting feelings pure
                             A soul-created symphony fine
                             Pure love deified to such beauty divine
                             Inspired by true art will forever endure.


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                          Cynthia =  Greek goddess of the moon

                         Juno        =  Queen of the Olympian gods.

   Note :  This poem was composed by me long ago when I visited a museum. I have revised it with a few alterations here and there. This ode has a faint influence of the famous ode of Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" where the poet finds 'Beauty in Truth and Truth in Beauty." The poet contrasts the ephemeral beauty of human world with permanent and aesthetic beauty of art where nothing changes and is above worldly worries and troubles. Art inspires people of all times with its timeless message and makes us forget our problems and gives us a new message of joy and hope to withstand the passing changes.

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                             16th October, 2017                                  Soma Seshu Gutala



     

                              

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