Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

My Words -Hemingway To Gertrude Stein

Are those thoughts you put in
  what I once valued more

Or would what I put out
  be the end winning score

Did I need your ears
  for my voice to become whole

Or would I rather them deafened
  words deep in my soul

In my twenties your opinion
  carried some weight

In my thirties I listened
  but asked you to wait

In my forties I turned
  and walked slowly away

Now alone in the twilight 
  —to carry the day

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

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Reason A. Poteet March 16, 2018 at 10:04 AM Interesting, so interesting, I've spent the better part of an hour, googling and reading about Hemingway and Stein, mostly Hemingway and Hadley. Great couplets