Paper may burn,
but vision lives on
In ashes of memory
—and words to a song
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: July, 2021)
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Author:
Kurt Philip Behm (
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Book burning? No acceptance, please, Kurt. However song existed before paper ,so....
Federico García Lorca's, assassination
a lightning-rod of consequence
to nationalist communism's eventual demise in Spain..
Dostoyevsky's last minute firing-line, salvation
giving birth, to the profoundly empathetic insight's
that curated Soviet and Russian
drastically - more humane: ideologies
in the last century..
Émile Zola's 'J'accuse' open letter
in defence of Alfred Dreyfus,
foreshadowing the early 20th century
Europe-wide, Jewish persecution
and continued victimisation
as landless people - ripe, for use
as easy political scapegoats
perpetuating,t housands of years
of cyclical and abhorrent antisemitism..
"I disapprove of what you say, but
I will defend to the death your right to say it"
sentiments of 'Voltaire'...
'Paper may burn,
but vision lives on
In ashes of memory
—and words to a song
Phoenix Reborn!'
this is the meaning behind your
seemingly insignificant: brilliantly profound poetry
dear Poet..
its just, we live in a time
when people rather belittle and denounce
than learn and be enlightened
to the potential, they willed
in every word:
they, think
they, speak
and write...
This is the legacy, of literacy
this is our downfall in-all of history
this is our only path: to salvage
the fallible beauty, we've titled - Humanity...!
thank you! for sharing your wisdom dear poet
Iam but one, of the beneficiary Phoenix's
your words, helped emancipate!
You're amazing LB, thanks.
Kurt
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