Moment After Moment

Kurt Philip Behm

Memories

of the future

Stolen

from the past

Caught within

tomorrow’s web

All of time

recast

 

Moment

after moment

Living

on the run

Embracing all

that’s come to be

And all

—that’s yet to come

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 29th, 2023 07:55
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Comments2

  • Soman Ragavan

    Kurt Philip Behm
    Moment After Moment

    “Memories of the future” : it has been said that the poet is also a prophet. Thus, the poet naturally wants to look ahead and try to detect what awaits us.
    “In the "Defence" he insists that the poet "not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which the present ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present." The poet is prophet and legislator, in Shelley's terms, by his untiring efforts "to set the crooked straight." (…..)”
    "SELECTIONS FROM SHELLEY'S POETRY AND PROSE." (EDITED BY DENNIS WELLAND). LONDON : HUTCHINSON EDUCATIONAL LTD., 1961.
    Full acknowledgements are made to the authors, publishers and rights-holders.
    “The poet beholds the future in the present…” The poet not only looks at what happens now but is also interested about the future. Soman Ragavan. 29 May, 2023.

    https://allpoetry.com/Soman_Ragavan

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Wonderful commentary, thanks.



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