Depreciating The Young (+2)

Kurt Philip Behm

Grammar school speculators

charlatan math

trading the currency

of borrowed youth

optioning the investment

in forsaken dreams

hedging their futures

with diminished returns

margining interest

—that will never compound

 

(Radnor School Board: February, 2021)

 

 

 

Lunar Savior

 

Out and back,

its motion imprisons

out and back,

on an endless sea

 

The ocean pulling

 both hard and wide

the tides recalling

—till setting you free

 

(The New Room: February, 2021)

 

 

 

 

But A Promise

 

of a morning

of a window

singing freely

/once heard

 

of a longing

of a distance

in the memory

/wayward

 

of a darkness

of a warning

that prophetic

/sojourned

 

but a vow

but a promise

a betrothal

/returned

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)

 

 

 

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 25th, 2021 10:55
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  • Jerry Reynolds

    Very well said, Kurt.

  • Trenz Pruca

    Enjoyable as usual.

  • L. B. Mek

    'of a longing
    of a distance
    in the memory
    /wayward

    of a darkness
    of a warning
    that prophetic
    /sojourned'..
    a write worth meditating until fully comprehended, wonderous in its depth of insight,
    at surface level a lament for handicapped youth, but within its true flow are tethered branches to cynicism's cyclical back-n-forth,
    commenting on humanity's search for meaning within moral integrity, between thesis, antithesis and synthesis,
    in our never ending dialectic for answers: before we've even comprehended, what questions we must ask of ourselves, let alone life...
    in my humble opinion, one of your most meaningful and poetically accomplished write's within your chosen distinct style - dear poet, a great effort taking into account its scope! really well executed
    thank you for choosing to share

    • Kurt Philip Behm

      Brilliant insight as usual, LB. Thanks so much.

      Kurt



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