Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

The Formless Question

Is beauty connected,
  or to a vacuum condemned

Is truth then required,
  for it to enter within

Can beauty be measured,
  by the heart or the mind

Can it chase, or displace, or replace
  what it finds

If beauty is truth,
  let all reason be shown

Why judgment and logic,
  to our hearts stay unknown

As semantics untangle,
  and the linguists all kneel

The question stays formless
   —to astound and congeal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

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Caren Krutsinger May 20, 2019 at 1:36 AM This would be impossible to do, but it certainly made my dendrites work hard. "If beauty is truth, let all reason be shown" Wow! Powerfully done, with finesse'. Kurt Philip Behm May 20, 2019 at 9:05 AM Thanks Caren, very kind of you. It's the 'apparent' contradictions that I'm most attracted to. Kurt