Inner Beauty Can Fade, Too

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“Inner beauty can fade, too.”
– Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments

Remind me: the heart's inner rooms
can contain exquisite beauty, carried within them over
the year’s long haul; can nourish and shelter, too -- yet, do still need
tending for it can fade like a
radiant tapestry set too close to the sun’s bright light.

– Steve Peterson

Here I'm playing around with the golden shovel poetry form as inspired by Mary Lee Hahn's #NationalPoetryMonth project at Poetrepository.

In my case because of the subject matter, I placed the words of honor on the inside of the poem.