Statues In The Park (+3)

Kurt Philip Behm

If we can’t tell stories

about our past

—the future stays untold

 

If judged by standards

out of time

—the fault beyond control

 

Our history always

both good and bad

—correction on the rise

 

What happened, happened,

as time rolls on

—and yesterday reminds

 

(Independence Square Philadelphia: March, 2021)

 

 

 

Live Fire

 

The voice of my enemy,

the loudest of truths

 

With death as the arbiter

—to win or to lose

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

 

 

 

Et Tu Democracy

 

Stimulus check…

blood diamond

from a failed November,

Payment

to a dark tomorrow,

Bribery

—for a future stole

 

(Dreamsleep November, 2020)

 

 

Beneath The Cover

 

Judging you by what you wear

or by the car you drive

the words forever hollow

whose bees have left the hive

Taking stock while looking back

through scarlet colored glass

the vision false, the judgment worse

its memory to outlast

Forming all opinion

by what is wrapped or clad

deception in the present sense 

the view less good than bad

Stepping back while looking in

my eyes take off their shield

to see much deeper than before

—my prejudice to yield

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 21st, 2021 10:09
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  • FredPeyer

    Hi Kurt, re Et Tu Democracy: So well written (as usual). Is this just a poem, or how you feel, or a tongue in cheek message to the democrats?

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Thanks Fred, I only write about what I think and feel.

    Kurt

  • L. B. Mek

    'Taking stock while looking back
    through scarlet colored glass
    the vision false, the judgment worse
    its memory to outlast
    Forming all opinion
    by what is wrapped or clad
    deception in the present sense
    the view less good than bad
    Stepping back while looking in
    my eyes take off their shield
    to see much deeper than before
    —my prejudice to yield'..
    insightful lines of surgical commentary, inked so depressingly 'matter of fact'..
    kinda crazy, modernity's addiction to blind-progression
    'in the minute we take
    to reflect and collect
    our thought's:
    they've gone and moved their goalpost's, offside
    yet again...'



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