Kurt Philip Behm

Liberating The Truth (+4)

With each tick of the second hand

 the immeasurable on trial

 

Imagination deposed

 all parameters set free

 

The Poets acquitted

 the logicians suicidal

 

All reference and syntax

 —imploding at light speed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

The Takeover

 

 

The fences and billboards

 disappear in the sanctum

 

As theory is abandoned

 —and true knowledge takes hold

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

 

Magdalena

 

 

Magdalena,

 your beauty known

 

Magdalena,

 your wisdom shown

 

Magdalena,

 firm and steadfast

 

Magdalena,

 communed repast

 

Magdalena,

 so loved a man

 

Magdalena,

 his blood in hand

 

Magdalena,

 though history scolds

 

Magdalena,

 your heart withholds

 

Magdalena,

 much more than friend

 

Magdalena,

 —the truth contends

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Interdiction

 

Poetry…

 arresting the mundane

 acquitting the spirit

 

Convicting

  all redundancy

   —freeing the truth

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Loves Denial

 

When you split the beam and the splintered edge

 is all you’re left with

 

The only one you’ve outsmarted

 is yourself

 

A prisoner of your severed choice

 and schizophrenia

 

The victim of your hearts defeat

 —and loves denial

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)