Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

Wednesday Musing

Confronting Tomorrow

Persuading
my curiosity
to counter my fear
I looked beyond the fray

Never being sure
I was dead or alive
the crossroads of tomorrow
— to enter or stay

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

Before Fate

How many times
must you lip sync
your schtick
to finally get it right

How many lies
must forever 
be told
to block the brightest light

How many lovers
must swim
in your wake
eventually to drown

How many times
must you rebait
the trap
— before its fate impounds

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)



Surrendering All

Escaping deep
into my art
without an exit
shown

Surrendering
what’s yet to come
for this one moment
shown

Escaping in
to venture forth
the one-way signs
abound

Surrendering all
to win at last
what prescience
— will impound

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)


Sentience

The journey
is the destination
Each step
tomorrow gleaned

All glory
for dishonor’s sake
As sentience
takes the lead

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)


Distant Thunder

If Morrison
returned
would the desert
repair
Would lizards
still hide
in forbidden 
night lairs
Their King
they await
like groupies
in heat
To re-shed
their skins
then gather
to greet
The one
who had freed them
then left them
forlorn
Who slithers
inside them
the eye
— of the storm

(Joshua Tree National Monument: March, 1981)


 Square Root Of The Present 

Time is now
whose moment refrains
The instant upon us
— as reference abstains

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

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