The Awakening (+3)

Kurt Philip Behm

Poetry,

 a reconciliation of opposites

 —awakening the dream

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Your Voice Explodes

 

Listen your way out of the problem,

 when language goes awry

 

Each word that’s heard, a fuse unlit,

 whose primer never lies

 

To think the pieces wholly,

 as new structure comes in view

 

With time and space in servitude

 —your voice explodes anew

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

A Losing Game

 

If lights great speed

 is but a myth

 

And darkness not empty

 as it seems

 

What’s true then false,

 what’s false conscripts

 

Our need to know

 —a cursed dream

 

Has discovery

 made us better

 

Have our souls

 or spirits changed

 

As logic brags

 with ethics blurred

 

To win

 —a losing game

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019) 

 

 

Counting Stopped

 

Truth lies beyond computation,

 perception aware of itself

 

Its ability beyond the last measure

 —of all theory and data unfelt

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Inside—Out

 

Can there be a top

 without a bottom

 

A beginning

 without an end

 

A middle

 without two flanking sides

 

Reality

 without pretend

 

Can you stop

 what’s never started

 

Can you die

 before you live

 

Can you see the truth

 without the lie

 

Can you change

 —what’s never been

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 2nd, 2019 09:26
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  • Jo March

    I really enjoyed your poem. It's such a beautiful way to think about poetry "-- a reconciliation of opposites —awakening the dream". According to the Romantic poets, the aim of the creative power of the imagination was to reconcile opposites. You express this beautifully in the poem (What’s true then false, / what’s false conscripts). It made me think that there is such a thin line between truth and falsehood. But walking this thin line makes it all the more worth it because as you say "Truth lies beyond computation, / perception aware of itself". Thank you so much for the poem.

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Hi Jo: I'm empowered by your very thoughtful comments.

    Thanks so much.

    Kurt



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