Fifty-Six Devotes Himself to Beauty

September 10, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Labor Day (USA), is professions.

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A philosophical number poem for a theatrical director about the challenge of making truths flow beautifully through time:

Fifty-six devotes himself to beauty.
In beauty, too, he finds his rich reward.
For him, his pleasure also is his duty,
The labor that creates the silent chord
Yielding frozen truths by beauty thawed.

So might those truths like water flow through time;
In eternal moments, the sublime:
Xanthic glints of gold his art makes shine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/56d.html. For more poems about professions, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html.

This week’s theme: Professions
September 7: Shall There Be a Moment After All
September 8: The Point of Playing Roles Is Demolishing Walls
September 9: Fifty-Three, Well Armed with Expertise
September 10: Fifty-Six Devotes Himself to Beauty