Intellectual AIDS (+5)

Kurt Philip Behm

Academic Immune Deficiency,

the intellect under attack

 

Those powered to know, ivory towers enthroned,

dialectic—its meaning hijacked

 

(Bryn Mawr College: January, 2020)

 

 

The Double-Edge

 

Humanities coin two sided,

on the front eternal life

 

On the back annihilation

—on its edge we balance fright

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

 

 

 

Math Murder

 

Is science the killer

of intuition

 

Can feelings so easily

be dispelled

 

The numbers unchained,

math murder proclaimed

 

Our souls and our spirits

—to quell

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

 

 

 

The Golden Egg

 

The world is an oven

we live in

 

With each scorching,

its temperature grows

 

Unable to stop,

hands fall off the clock

 

Left roasting

—goose cooking below

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

 

 

The Elephant's Ears

 

They say to forgive and forget…

in spite of the damage they’ve done

 

A blessing sublime, someone better than I,

could do both—I though neither one

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

 

 

 

The Nets Are Down

 

Without rhyme,

the words fade into the mist

 

Without rhyme,

the verse so begotten

 

Without rhyme,

all passages blow with the wind

 

Without rhyme

—so quickly forgotten

 

(Villanova University: January, 2020)

“Without rhyme, it’s like playing tennis without a net.”

Robert Frost

 

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 12th, 2020 10:07
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  • Nicholas Browning

    "The Nets Are Down" reminds me of "Dreams" by Langston Hughes. A very powerful and very true depiction of what it's like for something to lose meaning. I very much enjoyed the read.

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Thanks Nicholas. Honored by the comparison.

    Kurt



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