Death ever faithful
in spite of the glee
Holding our place
in wanton reprieve
We ever the cuckold
of life’s dark affairs
As quiet it waits
— a loyal au pair
(Dreamsleep: June,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 19 hours ago
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Where fire’s rage
no flame unfanned
The cinch retightened
no also ran
As horns go silent
the gate is dropped
On victory’s path
his legend cropped
Unbridled passion
distraction flees
A trophy hails
as reins go free
The end in... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 5 Views added 20 hours ago
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Like a hailstorm you came uninvited
and blew the Lakota
off sacred land
Religion, cheap liquor
hunger and disease
spread by those at your command
The battles broke every treaty
our food source attacked
and homes set ablaze
But the only... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 5 Views added 1 day ago
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A finer point
this very instant
all stars align
— the word
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 3 days ago
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A finer point
this very instant
all stars align
— the word
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 3 days ago
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Knowing they were
discreditable
He refused to examine
the motives
Refusing to examine
the motives
He discredited
— himself
(Dreamsleep: June,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 3 days ago
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Part 1:
He looked out of the third floor window of his office, wistfully, at the last of the students going home for the summer. The exodus had started Friday and today, Monday, was the last day they had to vacate their rooms.
Father Frank... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 4 days ago
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Before there was light
before there was sound
Gravity wandered
the universe round
Plotting the orbits
of things still to come
Spacing the essence
of all zero-sum
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)... – by Kurt Phiip Behm | 4 Views added 5 days ago
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A legacy for a father
waiting uninspired
Painted by the numbers
paternity required
Angel guardian my lost friend
orphanage exile
Free me on this darkest night
lead me through denial
Empty titled nominee
robbers roost to hide
Salutation... – by KurtPhilipBehm | 0 Views added 5 days ago
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Owning
the memories
of the years
without me
I wonder
if your thoughts
ever drift
toward mine
Your distance
endemic
a broken
connection
Remembering
moments
our hearts
— intertwined
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)... – by Kurt Philiop Behm | 4 Views added 5 days ago
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Hearing vibrations
passivity strains
Learning to listen
hearkening reigns
Sound and resonance
euphony binds
Volition the ears
— eternity finds
(Herb Alpert: June, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 6 days ago
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The many intersections of life
obscured in complexity
Go left or go right
to stay or move on
The interchange of salvation
whose overpass eludes us
An escape of transcendence
— most never find
(The New Room: June,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 6 days ago
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Hidden from perdition
disguising me again
Final thorn of life’s florescence
trapped within her pen
Darker than the madness
eternity cajoles
The pathway to forbidden fruit
— her masquerade unfolds
(The New Room: June, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 7 days ago
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Virtuoso
take me home
to a place
I’ve never been before
Virtuoso
play my song
in a voice
I’ve never heard in lore
Virtuoso
be my Muse
your flute heard calling
through the mist
Virtuoso
fortune’s child
when darkness casts
— my... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 8 days ago
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Under the beat
between the notes
inside the groove
— FUNK
(Tower Theater: May, 1974)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 9 days ago
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If we stayed young
and didn’t age
would marriage last
to turn the page
Would love endure
and pledges stay
with time becalmed
— and youth sustained
(Dreamsleep: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 9 days ago
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America has lost control
of the Founders rule of law
The criminals are now in charge
as truth has been declawed
Locking up the standard bearers
with new self-serving lies
Banana groves are planted deep
— where freedom used to thrive
... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 9 days ago
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No need to be good
when chasing the great
The moral imperative
deludes and conflates
With blinders on horses
we ride through the fray
Our eyes on tomorrow
— in search of today
(Dreamsleep: May,... – by Kurt Phiip Behm | 1 View added 10 days ago
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Drowning in my bitterness
and the smallness of reluctance
I refuse again to see
what life has gifted me unclaimed
Falling back into the prison of my dark
unfolding memoir
Drifting lost into an older time
— negativity holds dear
(The... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 11 days ago
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Dead Calm
Without friction
there is no motion
Without motion
— creation stops
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
Abeyance
My pen is searching
for its guitar case
a place to sleep
when the writing’s done
To rest in the dark
between... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 12 days ago
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Never about the mileage
but about the miles
Always about the moment lived
— escaping time
(Dreamsleep: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 5 Views added 13 days ago
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Abandoned
on the road of distant sorrow
mile markers bloody from the vagrants
it has claimed
All names
inscribed with crimson warnings
on devil written
eulogies
Their cries
entombed within an
eastern wind
— that blows away the dawn
... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 13 days ago
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Mankind
was never meant
to survive the future
Technology
a trap
their greed as bait
Generations
sacrificed
in self destruction
On altars
of indenture
— their natures gone
(Calvary Cemetery: May,... – by kurt philip | 3 Views added 14 days ago
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Wolf’s Tooth Pass
‘For thirty years, she called to me in a voice unclear. Today, a new pass leads me into the true magic of Shiprock.’
Insignificance:
Why was everything so big and I so small? Why, from... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 15 days ago
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Knowing I won’t answer
you’re welcome to ask
Questions like a distant
echoing wind
Blown into nothingness
— chasing the past
(Pine Ridge South Dakota: Fall,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 15 days ago
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Two contradictions
meet intertwined
Are they or aren’t they
YES, the reply
The black hole of reason
dark matter of mind
Imploding explosions
— together in kind
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 15 days ago
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When the final chapter on A.I. is written
what will be the epilogue — will that be the end
(Dreamsleep: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 6 Views added 16 days ago
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How do you start over
consumed by the end
Beginnings aborted
as judgment portends
Desperately hiding
alone and distraught
For all of those presents
time wasted — and lost
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 16 days ago
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Silence attacking
from deep in the hall
Damage inflicted
the metronome stalled
Blood in the orchestra
harmony thrawn
Melody slaughtered
— rhapsody gone
(The New Room: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 17 days ago
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Asleep in their nests
birds dreaming out loud
Just outside his window
new questions aroused
The moonlight not finished
what it started before
The church clothes still hanging
on the back of the door
What once he thought ended
returning... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 8 Views added 18 days ago
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Looking under
the streetlamp
vision departs
While all that we’re
missing
hides in the dark
The familiar
accepted
our nature’s are such
That what’s in
our comfort zone
pleases us much
Distracting
from vistas
that broaden our... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 18 days ago
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Step into
reason
The quicksand
of mind
The harder
you struggle
The deeper
the slime
The deeper
the slime
The harder
you fight
The sun
further distant
Consumed
— by the night
(Dreamsleep: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 19 days ago
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“Free weight verses”
said the Poet …
“that’s what I’m about
“Working out heavy
every word
lifting pain and doubt
“Supersets
with more then less
exhaustion waits to claim
“The final rep
the lasting burn
— forever to inflame”
... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 0 Views added 19 days ago
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Living alone
in quantum space
vibrations
dually churn
Hiding behind
a simple rhyme
their essence
undiscerned
Turned into words
exposed at last
where time and
memory join
Feigning the praise
for something they’re not
disparaged
... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 20 days ago
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Chapter 13: ‘Linking Us Together’
The values linking us together in America were timeless, and part of an unending chain, binding us together with the strength of their connection. It was a connection based on values, and those values were... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 20 days ago
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Show me a man
without contradiction
I’ll show you
— no man at all
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
Darkness Reigns
Shunning the light
power hides
in the shadows
gathering allies
— proffering fear
(Dreamsleep: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 4 Views added 20 days ago
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Chapter 11: The Butcher At The Corner
The butcher at the corner was always trying to teach my grandfather new words in Italian. My grandfather was of Irish and German descent, but he always took the time to try and learn a few words so the next... – by kurt philip | 2 Views added 21 days ago
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Sitting here thinking
about the past
regret for time mislaid
What’s done is gone
all swan’s in song
— tomorrow’s yesterday
(The New Room: May, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 0 Views added 22 days ago
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Chapter 9: Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Friendship & Mentoring
On the first day of school, every first grader was assigned a ‘big brother’ or ‘big sister’ from the 8th grade. These were our designated guidance counselors and caretakers during the... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 4 Views added 22 days ago
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Poetry’s spoken armor
repels the pointed spear
warding off tomorrow’s scars
enemies in fear
Each word thus protected
as phrases form anew
to vanquish what the darkness brings
— new battlegrounds in view
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 24 days ago
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Creating one more empty space
for every one I fill
Answers close within themselves
— questions open still
(The New Room: May, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 25 days ago
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Memory
without language
Joy
without pain
Sight
without prescience
Deed
without claim
Truth
without compromise
Faith
without prayer
Grace
without blessing
Love
— never shared
(The New Room: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 6 Views added 26 days ago
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Chapter 7: Learning To Share
At St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School we learned how to share. We had shared desks, shared inkwells, shared coatrooms, and no individual lockers. Any valuables that we did have were out in the open and under the... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 9 Views added 26 days ago
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Soldiers
in the fog of war
body count
a blur
Casualties
both left and right
voices
go unheard
Winners
walk a losing path
politics
in charge
Nothing changes
nothing ends
death
— the final bard
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 6 Views added 27 days ago
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Chapter 5: God Country And Family
God, Country, and Family were the cherished priorities that people sacrificed for and the essence of what made us great as a nation. Based on a strong moral code, developed from deeply held religious and/or... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 1 View added 27 days ago
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Chapter 1
Do we no longer share anything of value?
Chapter 2
Do we no longer value anything we share?
Chapter 3: Two Scenarios
Scenario 1 (1956): A young boy gets in trouble at school for being insolent and talking back... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 6 Views added 28 days ago
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And so it goes
from cradle to grave
From baby’s wail
to funeral laid
We reason, ponder,
dissent, and cry
As time repeats
and years go by
Sages offer
their grand excuse
In what’s left wanting
to feed the muse
But one thing’s certain... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 3 Views added 28 days ago
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Poison Ivy
Academia …
cesspool
of deception
harbinger
— of lies
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
Occam’s Edge
Plurality
without necessity
— pandering time
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
The Right Fork
Newness …
birth mother
to... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 28 days ago
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Time,
a slave
to importance
when
all respect for it
— is gone
(From ‘Calling Me Home’: May,... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 2 Views added 29 days ago
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Day #10: Williams To Las Vegas
I knew the next morning the ride back to Las Vegas was going to be flat and uninteresting. The short detour (spur) I took at Seligman, onto old Rt.#66, provided little in the way of anything new. After a week at... – by Kurt Philip Behm | 4 Views added 29 days ago
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