The last step to forgiveness

—love

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

‘From the 1^st Book of Prayers’

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

Reality is…

how could it be any other way

 

(Beaupre: March, 2021)

 

 

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

The words came as gifts

from the land of proposal,

a voice of enchantment heard far, far, away

Wrapped in the promise

of a better tomorrow,

new bows made of letters untie and defray

Although undeserved but never unwanted,

in the vanishing darkness

feelings pledge with the dawn

As thoughts await marriage, the silence has ended,

a committed engagement

—betrothed in a song

 

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

Plagiarism self-inflicted,

it blinds veracity

keeping us forever

in the dark

To wander in costume

as others unnamed,

 their vision

to herald and hark

In shadows of obscurity

 doubt crossing fear,

we steal

what can’t be bought

Reflecting false images

by our hand

chasing

—what can’t be caught

 

(Radnor Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

Poetry fails

when forced to explain

 

A dead-end street

with little to gain

 

Stripped of meaning,

one proffer to name

 

Magic and wonder

dead,

self-proclaimed

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

The places I’ve been

 all part of me now,

 roadmaps of intention

tracking landscapes endowed

 

The history I’ve written

covers chapter and verse,

of promises made

and commitments diverse

 

The road ever widens

 my scope narrows down,

 the past out of focus

leaving town after town

 

Tomorrow unbeckoned

I search for today,

the future unreckoned

—the moment in play

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)

“In God We Trust”

the dollar we must

 

Two-headed coin,

minted unjust

 

“Fides in Deum,”

our fortunes to blame

 

The past purloined

—the future inflamed

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)

The

gambler’s

asylum,

a table

waits

in hell

 

Your last card

out,

your first card

in,

aces all

—pray tell

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Satanic delusion,

 pagan confusion,

the darkest illusion

—redeemed by His word

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

Adrenalin…  

 catalyst of fear

and desire

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2020)