Kurt Philip Behm

Imagery Forgives (+4)

The gravity of freedom,

 the weight of space and time

 

Above the calculated noise,

 the wisdom of the Mime

 

Truth reveals a vacuum,

  where silence waits to live

 

As words describe what minds can’t see

 —and imagery forgives

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Did You Dream

 

Was the ending

 self-fulfilling

 

Hopes and wishes

 by the score

 

Did you live to dream

 or dream to live

 

Of a life

 —that’s something more

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Unmasked

 

Every book has a hundred messages

  trying to get out

 

Every song has ten inside of it

  waiting to sing loud

 

Every painting has a hidden image

   fighting to be shown

 

And every poem has a secret voice

   —dying to be known

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Eight Questions

 

Will there ever come a time

  when a moment doesn’t matter

 

Will there ever come a date

  when the days won’t connect

 

Will there ever come a phrase

   its words devoid of meaning

 

Will there ever come a song

  whose melody won’t play

 

Have you let what you celebrate

  turn into celebrity

 

Have your messages been transformed

  into a billboard or sign

 

Have you become a lonely caricature

  of a free and lasting symbol

 

Have your words become mere chatter

   —in a pandering for fame

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

A Singular Beauty

 

Discretions infinity,

 its number unknown

 

One window sufficient

 for its light to be shown

 

An exploding dynamic

 tumbling over itself

 

A singular beauty

 —in the distance unfelt

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)