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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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Date: 5/20/2019 1:36:00 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'.
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Kurt Philip Behm
Date: 5/20/2019 9:05:00 AM
Thanks Caren, very kind of you. It's the 'apparent' contradictions that I'm most attracted to. Kurt

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