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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     19 hours ago

Submitted Poems 4,317 total

Inception

Transmuting the past
denying the future
Reliving the moment
— time after time

(The New Room: March, 2024)...

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Shiloh

Shooting my classmate’s brother
(that war within a war)
I sat next to him at The Point
still targeting him sure
More than blood will flow this day
memory also dies
As honor sells its soul in vain
— each headstone marks the lie

(Maryville...

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Yesterday's Oath

Are you willing to shoulder
the burden that was left
by those no longer heard

To write those things
they never wrote
inspired by their every word

To take that next step
they never took
to reach beyond their grasp

Clearing the way...

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The Trojan Horse

Egos
not armies
destroy the Crown

Arrogance
reletting
the blood

The Emperor
naked
upon its back

Odysseus
in
— from the wood

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)...

by Kurt Philip Behm

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Innominatus

Stars reflect
the light inside you
Their galaxy
our soul’s domain

New constellations
wait unchristened
To burn inside
— each heart to name

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)...

by Kurt Philip Behm

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Thanks so much, Alan.

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Thanks Heather that's very kind of you.

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