Prisoner Of Disguise (+1)

Kurt Philip Behm

The words flock together

  and stretch on the frame

 

Their meaning runs over,

  still wet from the pain

 

The canvas is porous,

  the easel maligned

 

The curtains blow outward,

  faces calling in mime

 

The streets all a-chatter,

   it was Paris in spring

 

And striving to look busy,

  the most important of things

 

Looking back at my window,

  above the tannery so high

 

A shadow stares back

  —and I flee in disguise

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Forever On Hold

 

A literary sociopath…

  Hemingway wrote

 

Both gifted and tortured,

  his words they provoke

 

A verbal combatant,

  new victories untold

 

His last proving fatal

  —all memory on hold

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 6th, 2019 10:19
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  • Laura🌻

    Kurt,

    • “Prisoner Of Disguise”

    A magnificent read!

    The words in your poem...
    ‘frame’, ‘canvas’, ‘easel ‘, ‘Paris’(a very special place with a very special meaning for me)...
    made me think of a painter who paints beautiful pictures!
    You are like that painter who has the gift of being able to create beautiful art! The painter creates with a brush and paint. You create with your poet’s pen! You both have the ability to put on ‘canvas’ ‘pictures’ that bring so much joy to people! A gift not possessed by many!

    ~Laura~



  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Thanks Laura. I lived in Versailles for two summers when I was
    road-racing motorcycles in Europe.

    I used to spend my days off wandering around Monmartre, talking
    to street artists, writers, and Mimes (the Mimes never talked back,
    but I did get a few smiles from a pretty female once).

    I was there the year the Palace was robbed. I still plead my innocence.

    🙂

  • Laura🌻

    Ah yes...Montmartre!!!

    I had an apartment for a while on Rue Scribe and then stayed with an aunt on Rue Jean Brunet...Meudon for two years!

    You plead innocent because they haven’t caught you yet! My lips are sealed! 😉



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