My Advice To Poets (+2)

Kurt Philip Behm

When you find your true voice

marry it

— never to divorce

 

(Deamsleep: January, 2024)

 

 

 

The First Cut ...

 

Avoid needless

complexity

Say it

straight out

 

Frost and

then Hemingway

Set the rules

down

 

Between meaning

and verbiage

The idea

is king

 

Sharpen

the point

The message

— the thing

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)

 

 

 

Logan Pass

 

I’m a poet devoid

of Cliff Notes

dissection

not my thing

 

Don’t ask me

to explain my words

I’d rather hum

and sing

 

Explication

penniless

in ghettos

of the word

 

Where vagrants

pull and tear apart

what only should

— be heard

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 28th, 2024 12:05
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Comments3

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Thanks as always, H.

  • Doggerel Dave

    ' The First Cut ...' does it for me. No message, then form, rhythm, wonderful metaphors and the rest are all for naught.

  • Lil

    This is amazing/ wonderful. It really shows what you mean.



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