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)
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Kurt Philip Behm (
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Very well said, Kurt.
Thanks Jerry.
Enjoyable as usual.
Thanks Trenz
'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
Brilliant insight as usual, LB. Thanks so much.
Kurt
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