Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

Saturday Soundbites: 5-30-2026

Red Right Return

Today
unto forever
This moment
to insure
What goes around
till run aground
Comes back again
— assured

*****

Grace Maligned

Compromise
 a tightrope
Traversing 
lives unlived
Decisions made
with sharper blades
Those gifts
that always give

Adulation ...
false adornment
Redemption’s
last reprieve
Salvation’s
saving grace maligned
Transcendence
— left to grieve

*****

The Wonder Of Being

Connected
to life
Disconnected
by death
There’s no
crossing over
The Poets
misled

Life
is too precious
For fate
to delude
The wonder
of being
This brief
— interlude

*****

Lockstep Losers

Everyone dies
but very few live
Who run through the motions
like sand in a sieve

Their steps locked together
they march in the queue
Devoid of all focus
— life slips from their view

*****

A Raging Torrent

Abandoned
in their wake
we drown together
Victims of the madness
and suicide
they shared

Jealousy and pills
started
what gin would finish
Two kids
imprisoned
caught in their snare

The current 
left behind them
a raging torrent
As something
grabs our ankles
pulling us down

Ears deafened
to our screams
in their drunken slumber
Dreaming of false glory
rhinestone fawners 
— and crowns

(The New Room: May, 2026)

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