Farewell To Arms (+1)

Kurt Philip Behm

Where do you go

when your war has been won

 

The enemy vanquished,

the legion’s undone

 

What do you do

when your purpose is gone

 

The feelings still burning,

the will to fight strong

 

Where do you go,

the last battle adjourned

 

The fields lined in blood,

all caissons returned

 

As men march in unison,

their rifles unbreeched

 

A lone bugle calling

—the dead beyond reach

 

(The New Room: January, 2021)

 

 

 

Raison D' Etre

 

What purpose Poetry,

if not to transcend

 

The mundane, the broken,

those roads with no end

 

With every feeling

new words are reborn

 

To speak to Creation

—and live readorned

 

(The New Room: January, 2021)

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 25th, 2021 10:16
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  • Jerry Reynolds

    Well written as always Kurt. I like your work it speaks to me well.

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Thanks Jerry, you made my night.

  • Doggerel Dave

    Great question - those first two lines. Homelessness, PTSD, high suicide rates, scandals. Picture not good.
    Plus, well said Jerry.

    Dave

  • FredPeyer

    Kurt, your first poem made me think deeply. Indeed, where do they go? We expect them to rejoin civilian life as if nothing happened. Your poems are extraordinary!

    • Kurt Philip Behm

      Again, I thank you. Thomas Wolfe said "You can never go home again."

    • L. B. Mek

      A Brilliant Write!
      but sadly, there will never be a 'farewell to arms', for you see
      defence budget's are agreed upon, before
      any election hopeful dares put their name in the 'ring',
      while all the time, great men of courage
      who sadly: trust in nothing but 'might', insure
      there's always a new threat 'visible' in democracy's ever-foggy 'horizon'...



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