To see any clearer
I drifted away
From your
lies
From your
madness
From your paperless
tray
The word forest
called
For my pen to break
free
From the blurred
introspection
Hovering close to your
tree
When my vision
unclouded
A bigger picture
appeared
In whose distance
I found
What your emptiness
feared
(Train In Massachusetts: March, 2015)
Forever Wondering Why
Run away from the what
let the how lead the way
Keep the questions before you
and the answers at bay
Deem your motion perpetual
with all stops left behind
As those presents unwrapped
open up in your mind
May the wind rise to greet you
and your sun never set
On those places now virgin
and a lover unmet
May the wisdom of sages
be your rallying cry
As you course through the ages
—forever wondering why
(Train-New Haven: March, 2015)
To Confess And Reveal
Words rushed through my head
clearing cobwebs away
All letters on edge
cutting doors as they played
From one room to the other,
they matched up and danced
And from basement to attic,
my mind was enhanced
Without reason, beyond memory,
they sharpened my feel
Until alone they then left me
—to confess and reveal
(Train-Penn Station NYC: March, 2015)
The Intellectual Elf
Working at looking studious,
the academic went his way
Pontificating what he didn’t know,
his students bowed and swayed
Reading only what was duly sworn
writing safe, within the shelf
To himself was he now smitten blind
—an intellectual elf
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
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Kurt,
Four super poems!
• “Drifting Away”
At times we must distance ourselves from what is right in front of us in order to see clearly!
• “Forever Wondering Why”
Yes, ‘let the how lead the way’.
• “To Confess And Reveal”
Liberating ourselves from that which weighs so much upon us is uplifting!
• “The Intellectual Elf”
Too self absorbed, snobbish, and conceited...I dare say!
An awesome read! Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talents!
~Laura~
Thanks Laura, great insights as usual.
Kurt
Kurt, this is an excellent trilogy in poetic form that leaves the reader to decipher the meaning, especially referencing the first two.
"What your emptiness feared."
"Forever wondering why."
I suspect it was a girlfriend or wife that deceived you.
Thanks for posting. 🙂
Thanks Tamara. It was actually a metaphor against the
status-quo.
Kurt
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