Hollywood Knights

Kurt Philip Behm

Built on envy

and city lights

The vagrant actor

alone at night

 

In hidden alleys

with tinsel thorns

On celluloid

new lies are born

 

A big screen promise

of broken dreams

The waitress car hop

on Wilshire scheme

 

Drugged on stardom

with toxic friends

What footlight’s start

— the darkness ends

 

(The New Room: June, 2025)

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 26th, 2025 09:09
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  • sorenbarrett

    Well put metaphor for life as well. We all strive for recognition that is more often than not, not obtained. The falling back into darkness and oblivion. This is felt in the poem that although it has a polished surface underneath has a raw and bleeding body. Well done Kurt and a fave

    • Kurt Philip Behm

      Thanks. Vegas is even worse. I wrote a poem years ago called \"The Poet Of Las Vegas Boulevard.\"


      The Poet of Las Vegas Boulevard
      steals emotion from the night

      Holding a vigil in the darkness
      waiting for the light

      The Poet of Las Vegas Boulevard
      among the screams and homeless cries

      Making rhyme of what reason has abandoned
      —marking time inside the shadow of lies

      (Las Vegas Boulevard: January 24, 2016)

    • Tristan Robert Lange

      Been to Hollywood and know of what you speak. Also, having read the comments above, I have been to Vegas and, there again, I concur. Well done, my friend! 🌹👏

    • Kurt Philip Behm

      Thanks again, TR.



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