The Beautiful

By Monty Marcus

No word has more meaning, more dimension or more interpretations than ‘Beautiful’. In fact, there really is no true way to define it. You can’t describe it with absolute certainty. You can’t tell or show someone something and be sure they will regard it as beautiful. You can point out characteristics, identify certain qualities and quantify features in a way that have been historically thought of as beautiful, but you cannot determine a standard of beauty for anyone other than for yourself.
For me, “Beautiful” is our human connection to that which we regard as spiritually moving. Beautiful has nothing to do with the way something or someone physically appears to us. It has only to do with what we make from that appearance. Beautiful is in everything and everyone. And it is in equal amounts in all things, at all times. Beauty is the stuff in between the pieces and the parts. It is what draws our eye and races our hearts. It is in places you expect as much as in those that you don’t. Oftentimes you don’t see the beauty until long after you’ve experienced it. But it has always been there, is there now and will eternally be there forever and for always.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728346182

Monty Marcus

Monty Marcus is a writer and poet. His writing is based on life experiences and observations. Writing since 1990, his first book of poetry, "Tug", was published in 2007. Since that time, a deepened view of life has directed his writing towards a blend of real-world experience and spiritual awareness.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/07/2020

ISBN: 978-1-7283-4619-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-4618-2 (e)

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Table of Contents

Your Truth

A Long Short Story

The Connection

Goodness, Greatness and Grace

An Everyday Love

Things That It Is Not

All Kinds of Impossible Things

When At

This Is

The Two

The Energy

The Red Heart

Field

I See Myself

The Hold

Here

Immensely Beautiful Woman

I Simply Am

Have You

The Shine Brightly

The Fit

Control

Love You Holy

Inside Here With You

Always

There Are Five Ways To Handle

A Ticking Time Bomb

Hero And The Girl

Bend

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Your Truth

I want to hear freshness, perfection no matter the cost

I want the raw and the matter

The beauty and the bound

I want to be smothered with uniqueness and stamped on by

newness

Give me something to free me

To once again show me that angels can walk

So I know a hope still remains that we not only possess

a deepness, but we are also willing to exalt it, to shine

the inside, to bring forth to those who are seeking and

searching, the explosion and triumph of colliding moments,

of somersault nectar, the light from shadows once past cast,

the hollowed out pigments of faded colored moons, the

gifted and the glorious, the victory and the trials

Give me the truth

And I will stand on high, scream out the lines while the world

explodes

And I will tell

I will seize unto the promise of our oneness, our greatness,

ourselves

Give me the truth

Give me the truth of your thoughts

12/18, 10/19 1/20

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A Long Short Story

It’s a long, beautiful story

Of few words

That took too long for me to write

Not the time to write the words

But the time it took to write the story

12/18

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The Connection

There is this

Beautiful something

That goes from this place I am

To that place you are

It pours out of me in words

It comes to me from your smile

The connection fills the space between us

There’s no place I go that it doesn’t go with me

I am lost without it

I can’t help it

I feel you everywhere and all over

01/15

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Goodness, Greatness and Grace

You've shown me a different kind of goodness

A joyous kind of goodness

You've shown me how to stand and how to hover

How to bend and not be brittle

How to hum in the darkness so the dark part of night sings

out in song

How the giver becomes the getter

How wanting and needing and closeness are the same things

at some times and different at others

You've shown me that brightness can have defined edges

without suffering a lesser shine

That I can be down without fear

That it doesn't mean failure

That I am no less the hero

You've shown me a new way of newness

So I can be true to the moment

I can be scared if I'm scared and that doesn't mean weakness

I can yell through the wind and you'll hear me and know me,

then hold me and feel me

I've learned that my doing nothing can sometimes be

something

I can sit in stillness without finding meaning and purpose in

all things and always

I can just be,