Only As Sacred
You want to define poetry,
behind the safety of your bars
Open the door to your cage,
a world awaits, where feathers tar
Dusty journals and ‘how-to’ books,
no longer serve you here
One price of admittance,
the acknowledgement of fear
With words only as strong
as the impression they leave,
And feelings only as sacred,
—as memory retrieves
(Seattle Washington: March, 2017)
Copyright © Kurt Philip Behm | Year Posted 2017
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