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Lifelong writer with 15 books published ( three poetry). I wrote my first serious poem in 1971. Website: kurtphilipbehm.com

  March 2015     17 mins ago

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Implanted

When your mind
has roots in poverty
all riches bend and wilt

The fleeting gold
the moment holds
— no more than fading gilt

(Dreamsleep: June,...

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Lost Between

The backside
of tomorrow
The frontside
of today
Every look
retelling
Of what the past
betrays

Caught within
the doldrums
All time fades
in the mist
Until that day
that ends itself
And nothing more
— exists

(Dreamsleep: June,...

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Today Or Tomorrow

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,...

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Big Red

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...

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Wounded Knee

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...

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Thanks for taking the time to read it, Alan.

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