Given to wonder,
more perfect to know
Muse’s awaiting
—enlightenment flows
(The New Room: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
Given to wonder,
more perfect to know
Muse’s awaiting
—enlightenment flows
(The New Room: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
Writing in obscurity,
musings unrestrained
Words to live both free and clear
—nothing to repay
(The New Room: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
Living after love departs
—life after death
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
The issue…
only fate to know
—and only time to heal
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
The fuse was lit
on the ending of my trauma
Awaiting combustion
—joy in the wind
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
It’s the same form of difference,
each place that I go
Hotel chains and Walmart,
McDonalds that grow
The downtown’s breed stepfords,
banks, dollar stores throng
Identities corporate
—our history bygone
(The New Room: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
Over parenting…
the child undone
A cardinal sin
—lost millennium
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
If a poem doesn’t live up
to its title
The moment is reclaimed
by time
Its chance to anoint
when read disappoints
A bell
—unable to chime
(The New Room: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
Is the self
“a mere bundle
of perceptions”
If Hume’s right,
are the rest of us
wrong
When stimuli exits,
do we then
disappear
Existence abeyant,
too weak
—to live on
(Villanova University Library: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm
Truth independent
of perception
A falling tree
crashing unheard
Existing beyond
what senses receive
Essence eternal
—by time undeterred
(Villanova University: April, 2021)
Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm