Do you write the words
or do they write you
Are the feelings tattered
or something new
Do you speak in tongues
or in muted silence
Are the moments sacred
or void of credence
Do the questions answer
themselves in time
Do the phrases mingle
but never rhyme
Do the reasons falter
excuse to reign
Do the moments linger
—tomorrow framed
(Newtown Square Pennsylvania: April, 2022)
Life when it’s tragic
a forced similarity
Spreading like water
—flooding the plain
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
Until your forgiveness
marries your passion
—everything else is lost
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
At 11:05 the torrent came,
its current tainted,
its waters shamed
At 11:06 direction changed,
intention drowning
—redemption stained
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
The aging of time,
each year to endear
from cradle to grave
the future unclear
The aging of time,
whose toddler matures
to crawl and then walk
—as moments endure
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
For every second
the chronometer gains,
the future loses two
The light retreating
time in halves
—the moment old once new
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
Ego’s
not armies
destroy an empire
Inside
to rampage
—pillage and burn
(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)
Caught between
fear and despondency
it came as two trains
passing in the night
with him on the center rail
too frozen to choose
too barren to cry
too orphaned to commit
hearing the screams
from the dying polarity
tearing him from the center
of his emptiness
daring him to move
while forcing him to stay
the 8th deadly sin beset…
D-E-S-P-A-I-R-I-N-G
with the sound of the fury
the pressure and the heat
sucking out the last vestige
of the man he had been
before all hope gave in to fear
(Septa’s R5: March, 2022)
A Poet who writes his name in ink
and screams his name in blood
Tomorrow will hear what his wounds make clear
—to die in glory of
(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)
This is the 6th Novel in a Historical Fiction series I started
over ten years ago. There will be ten in total when the series
is done.
I’ve been working with a movie company that its interested
in acquiring the rights to turn the series into a TV Show or
Movie. It should be in bookstores by April 15th.
Hope you like the cover…
Kurt
An Anthology Of Perception 