Rarely Shown Quality

[Harklight]

Rarely Shown Quality

Occasionally
people amaze
with perception
you’d not credit,
like one old man
who only ever
swigs at the bar.
Always
in drinking haze,
it’s most unlikely
that he’d be first
to recognise need,
and quietly ignore
masculine pride.
Never
without a beer pot
in weathered hands,
kindly he lay his
usual want aside,
selflessly, to offer
a hug.

Sometimes
disguised behind
the ghostly faces,
ash-greyed hair,
in golden hearts
caring spirits
burst to flower.

Blessed be.


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[Max]

This feels like its about someone that you know, H. You're absolutely right, books should never be judged by their covers, for we often do not know the soul within until we look a bit deeper. Loved the structure of this, you are able to say in a few short stanzas what would take me a book to say. Much enjoyed my friend!

[Artemis]

Much enjoyed H. Wonderful message in this beautifu l write. Blessed be. K xxxx

[carousal]

Yes the gift to look and not pass by, to observe and not to reach false judgments. For me that is the beating heart of poetry, not the arty pretentiousness that we are told is the true art.

I congratulate you on a fine example of poetry which has the power to reach out to us,
I will return with a well merited Exalt.

[Jamie~poetshare.forumotion.com]

Sometimes even the most deeply secreted soul recognizes the pain of another, and seeks to offer solace. Deep emotion in this, H. Well done, and so true in so many ways.