Comments received on poems by Kurt Philip Behm
Memory Beckons
L. B. Mek said:
\'Days go forward,
nights in reverse\'
that retrograde certainty
of our cyclical fates
we ignore daily: Defiantly!
May 11th, 2021 05:09
L. B. Mek said:
\'Days go forward,
nights in reverse\'
that retrograde certainty
of our cyclical fates
we ignore daily: Defiantly!
May 11th, 2021 05:09
Nowhere To Hide (+1)
L. B. Mek said:
\'Time but a mask,
delusion concealed
The cover pulled back
—more truth to reveal\'
\'Cutting Both Ways
Trying to defend
All life on the edge\'
unassuming Wisdom, in all its Poetic majesty...
thanks for choosing to share dear Poet
(forgive me for rearranging your lines, yet again
I meant no disrespect by doing so
just wanted to highlight for others, the Message
that helped lessen: my own ignorance)
May 10th, 2021 05:10
L. B. Mek said:
\'Time but a mask,
delusion concealed
The cover pulled back
—more truth to reveal\'
\'Cutting Both Ways
Trying to defend
All life on the edge\'
unassuming Wisdom, in all its Poetic majesty...
thanks for choosing to share dear Poet
(forgive me for rearranging your lines, yet again
I meant no disrespect by doing so
just wanted to highlight for others, the Message
that helped lessen: my own ignorance)
May 10th, 2021 05:10
Telltale Signs
L. B. Mek said:
all I can say is - so true...
*needs to be read a few times: to experience the pacing and flow, just right*..
(a wonderful read)
May 7th, 2021 06:02
L. B. Mek said:
all I can say is - so true...
*needs to be read a few times: to experience the pacing and flow, just right*..
(a wonderful read)
May 7th, 2021 06:02
Bench Made
Kurt Philip Behm said:
As always, eloquent commenting. The prophets must be looking on in
disbelief.
April 26th, 2021 09:35
Kurt Philip Behm said:
As always, eloquent commenting. The prophets must be looking on in
disbelief.
April 26th, 2021 09:35
Bench Made
L. B. Mek said:
\'then fight to steal His throne
Devotion pledged
in false pretense,
to become the greater known\'..
yup, if we could take fallible humanity - out
of all that cleric rhetoric
and distil that message of love and unity, imbued
in most of theology, likely
we could halve - all: divisive animosity..
(why ink our words, if not for whispering: our hopeless dreams
a great read, as ever dear poet)
April 26th, 2021 06:17
L. B. Mek said:
\'then fight to steal His throne
Devotion pledged
in false pretense,
to become the greater known\'..
yup, if we could take fallible humanity - out
of all that cleric rhetoric
and distil that message of love and unity, imbued
in most of theology, likely
we could halve - all: divisive animosity..
(why ink our words, if not for whispering: our hopeless dreams
a great read, as ever dear poet)
April 26th, 2021 06:17
Tally Tally Ho
L. B. Mek said:
that subtle touch of brilliance: relatable
without a thoughtful - calculator, in-sight..
a great write!
April 23rd, 2021 05:29
L. B. Mek said:
that subtle touch of brilliance: relatable
without a thoughtful - calculator, in-sight..
a great write!
April 23rd, 2021 05:29
Tally Ho
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Quantitative qualification...and the madness goes on.
Thanks my friend.
Kurt
April 22nd, 2021 09:03
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Quantitative qualification...and the madness goes on.
Thanks my friend.
Kurt
April 22nd, 2021 09:03
Tally Ho
L. B. Mek said:
Amen!
modernity\'s: nihilism of maths, equated
to its unavoidably catastrophic, conclusion...
such a creative write! (thanks for inspiring my scribbled reply, yet again my friend)
\'we - so few, see value
in that simple math of earned wisdom, where
one times one: equals fortitude
of unflinching truth!
Ensuring any addition
is first fractured through that filter
of divisible integrity, within humility
so that we never succumb
to that feared subtraction of all-things: sans\'
April 22nd, 2021 05:37
L. B. Mek said:
Amen!
modernity\'s: nihilism of maths, equated
to its unavoidably catastrophic, conclusion...
such a creative write! (thanks for inspiring my scribbled reply, yet again my friend)
\'we - so few, see value
in that simple math of earned wisdom, where
one times one: equals fortitude
of unflinching truth!
Ensuring any addition
is first fractured through that filter
of divisible integrity, within humility
so that we never succumb
to that feared subtraction of all-things: sans\'
April 22nd, 2021 05:37
Forever More (+3)
L. B. Mek said:
there is a closeness shared between words and eyes, dear poet
you lend me your words
and I\'ll borrow you my eyes: my friend!
darkness, is merely Nature\'s pooling
of cornered potential
waiting for other\'s - to catch-up
and hopefully: actualise...
April 19th, 2021 05:09
L. B. Mek said:
there is a closeness shared between words and eyes, dear poet
you lend me your words
and I\'ll borrow you my eyes: my friend!
darkness, is merely Nature\'s pooling
of cornered potential
waiting for other\'s - to catch-up
and hopefully: actualise...
April 19th, 2021 05:09
\"The Missing Shade...\" (+2)
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Their philosophy/ religion is integrated and they live within it. Western (Greek) philosophy is more objective where truth lives outside the believer and becomes a standard to live up to or adhere to.
Indians don’t receive their real names (like Crazy Horse) until they either have a vision or accomplish an important deed. They don’t see nature outside themselves, but rather themselves as part of the natural world with no confusion or contradiction. That is why so many of them were able to integrate Christianity with their own native beliefs.
They would not have understood at all Plato’s treatise on forms and in fact would have found that duality absurd.
Contradiction, whether the Trinity or Mind/ Body dualism would have been lost on them. Their God, Wakan Tanka was in all things, unlike the Greek gods.
Thanks as always for the great commenting.
Kurt
April 16th, 2021 06:12
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Their philosophy/ religion is integrated and they live within it. Western (Greek) philosophy is more objective where truth lives outside the believer and becomes a standard to live up to or adhere to.
Indians don’t receive their real names (like Crazy Horse) until they either have a vision or accomplish an important deed. They don’t see nature outside themselves, but rather themselves as part of the natural world with no confusion or contradiction. That is why so many of them were able to integrate Christianity with their own native beliefs.
They would not have understood at all Plato’s treatise on forms and in fact would have found that duality absurd.
Contradiction, whether the Trinity or Mind/ Body dualism would have been lost on them. Their God, Wakan Tanka was in all things, unlike the Greek gods.
Thanks as always for the great commenting.
Kurt
April 16th, 2021 06:12
\"The Missing Shade...\" (+2)
L. B. Mek said:
may I humbly ask what \'their radically different definition\' of rationality is? (scholarly curiosity only, so no problem if you can\'t divulge)
April 16th, 2021 04:06
L. B. Mek said:
may I humbly ask what \'their radically different definition\' of rationality is? (scholarly curiosity only, so no problem if you can\'t divulge)
April 16th, 2021 04:06
\"The Missing Shade...\" (+2)
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Thanks LB. In fairness to him, I\'ve always been a fan of Hume\'s. Like Descartes, he was
a giant of his time.
IMHO, Benjamin Spock was responsible for ruining more children than measles or polio.
My mother had his baby blue bible \'Baby And Child Care\' on her nightstand until she threw
it out in disgust as a result of my Grandmother telling her that Spock was deluded.
After spending a lot of time with the Oglala Tribe in Pine Ridge while writing \'Searching For Crazy Horse, I can tell you that their definition of rationality is radically different (and attractive to me) from what almost all of Western thought represents.
Always great to hear from you.
Kurt
April 15th, 2021 09:35
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Thanks LB. In fairness to him, I\'ve always been a fan of Hume\'s. Like Descartes, he was
a giant of his time.
IMHO, Benjamin Spock was responsible for ruining more children than measles or polio.
My mother had his baby blue bible \'Baby And Child Care\' on her nightstand until she threw
it out in disgust as a result of my Grandmother telling her that Spock was deluded.
After spending a lot of time with the Oglala Tribe in Pine Ridge while writing \'Searching For Crazy Horse, I can tell you that their definition of rationality is radically different (and attractive to me) from what almost all of Western thought represents.
Always great to hear from you.
Kurt
April 15th, 2021 09:35
\"The Missing Shade...\" (+2)
L. B. Mek said:
what a fun read,
firstly I think Hume\'s prose is really underrated, much like Freud and Nietzsche, the fact that they\'re so easily quotable - distracts, from the sheer talent they had for sentence structuring prowess..
as for theory, I think a lot of Hume is a reaction to that logic-first mindset of late 17th - 18th century enlightenment era, reflecting the same environment that birthed Rosseau\'s call for regression from our growing dependency on science
but I like how you worked it into the poem, stimuli based on our innate emotionality probably determines a lot, for first impressions - but we usually get a chance at analysing and thereby making second and third more informed judgments, hence why reasoning will always prevail: if we can only cultivate a state of rationality for us to decipher the relevant data (easier said than done in the heat of the moment, I know)..
Also, I think dr. spock is like \'the positive reinforcement, cop\'
to Dr. Gabor Maté\'s \'harsh - realist, analytical cop\', lol
April 15th, 2021 05:31
L. B. Mek said:
what a fun read,
firstly I think Hume\'s prose is really underrated, much like Freud and Nietzsche, the fact that they\'re so easily quotable - distracts, from the sheer talent they had for sentence structuring prowess..
as for theory, I think a lot of Hume is a reaction to that logic-first mindset of late 17th - 18th century enlightenment era, reflecting the same environment that birthed Rosseau\'s call for regression from our growing dependency on science
but I like how you worked it into the poem, stimuli based on our innate emotionality probably determines a lot, for first impressions - but we usually get a chance at analysing and thereby making second and third more informed judgments, hence why reasoning will always prevail: if we can only cultivate a state of rationality for us to decipher the relevant data (easier said than done in the heat of the moment, I know)..
Also, I think dr. spock is like \'the positive reinforcement, cop\'
to Dr. Gabor Maté\'s \'harsh - realist, analytical cop\', lol
April 15th, 2021 05:31
After Hours (+2)
L. B. Mek said:
forgive me for rearraigning your wonderful works my friend, just my overzealous nature plying-up, yet again (I sincerely apologise if you take any offense to me doing-so):
\'If just one person understands,
if just one troubled soul
In the darkness
it came,
no more searching in the light
Quixotic by decree
—windmills turning free
The effort and the pain involved
—small price to make them whole\'
April 12th, 2021 05:09
L. B. Mek said:
forgive me for rearraigning your wonderful works my friend, just my overzealous nature plying-up, yet again (I sincerely apologise if you take any offense to me doing-so):
\'If just one person understands,
if just one troubled soul
In the darkness
it came,
no more searching in the light
Quixotic by decree
—windmills turning free
The effort and the pain involved
—small price to make them whole\'
April 12th, 2021 05:09
Shadows In The Night (+3)
L. B. Mek said:
that tiger\'s hour, where we of creativity
gather under that gaze of moonlit insomnia
to pen our insight\'s and question
our very ability to see: what\'s right...
April 12th, 2021 05:00
L. B. Mek said:
that tiger\'s hour, where we of creativity
gather under that gaze of moonlit insomnia
to pen our insight\'s and question
our very ability to see: what\'s right...
April 12th, 2021 05:00
The Human Beings
jarcher54 said:
Hunting what others fear takes some fortitude. I don\'t know if you meant it consciously, but your last line reads and is punctuated like the title of the piece. Like and unexpected key to the riddle above, or a poem upside down. Wait, nothing you do is not carefully crafted. Of course you knew exactly what you were doing. Thanks!
April 10th, 2021 02:00
jarcher54 said:
Hunting what others fear takes some fortitude. I don\'t know if you meant it consciously, but your last line reads and is punctuated like the title of the piece. Like and unexpected key to the riddle above, or a poem upside down. Wait, nothing you do is not carefully crafted. Of course you knew exactly what you were doing. Thanks!
April 10th, 2021 02:00
Shadows In The Night (+3)
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Thanks LB. It took over me last night. I could have kept
going for pages. One of my books is a 175 page lyric poem
\'titled \'After Midnight.\'
Kurt
April 9th, 2021 04:32
Kurt Philip Behm said:
Thanks LB. It took over me last night. I could have kept
going for pages. One of my books is a 175 page lyric poem
\'titled \'After Midnight.\'
Kurt
April 9th, 2021 04:32
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