Bent Straight
Kurt Philip Behm said:

Again,. I\'m honored. Thanks.

Kurt

September 28th, 2021 07:35

Bent Straight
Trenz Pruca said:

Always enjoyable and thoughtful. Thank you.

September 27th, 2021 17:31

Blinded By The Light
L. B. Mek said:

its rare, you present your poetic voice in such a direct and accessible manner
but then, reading the important message you\'re reaching-out with
I can identify with your purposed intentions
and laud, your tenacity of empathetic sincerity!!
simply brilliant Kurt, as always

September 27th, 2021 05:46

Praesidium
L. B. Mek said:

\'that great divide\'
\'To write and wander
among the spires\'
\'The sand the measure
of all between\'
\'Are your words personal or objective,\'
\'The second has all the letters present

…except ‘I’
\'What’s in my soul
—and unforeseen\'
(forgive my rudeness, dear Poet
but this is how your majestic Poetry
revealed itself to me,
thank you for inspiring my poetic growth: endlessly, incalculably!)

September 27th, 2021 05:38

Oraculum (+1)
Laura🌻 said:

Kurt,


So humble and unpretentious of you my dear poet………

‘I don’t write for you,
I don’t write for me
—I write for them’

……..and you admirably do it well.

Thank you for sharing your gift.

Laura🌻



September 25th, 2021 19:05

With The Dawn
Laura🌻 said:

Kurt,

Out of the shadows into the light…
Light—
our guide…
our path…
the essence of life.

Thank you for sharing
this gem of a poem.

Laura🌻

September 24th, 2021 19:06

To Always Return (+1)
Laura🌻 said:

Kurt,

Definitely for you
‘one time is not enough’.
The more you see,
the more you want to see…
the more you want to listen to those voices that always bring you back.
It is part of your existence.

I truly sense your latest visit in these writings.
You travel out West on your bike and I travel through the pages of ‘Searching For Crazy Horse’. It is my go to whenever you reference your trips out West.

Thank you for sharing.

Laura🌻

September 23rd, 2021 23:32

The Ostrich
Laura🌻 said:

Kurt,

Your ‘Dreamsleep’ is a gem jammed with the truth. So many with their ‘head in the sand’ and facts be d*****!

Thank you for sharing.

Laura🌻

September 21st, 2021 15:08

The Indian Sign
L. B. Mek said:

everywhere there\'s a few
\'like minded\' gathering of people
preaching to their own choir
creating an insulated cocoon of a \'safe space\' for each other, only..
you can assume, in short order
\'a pseudo aristocracy will manifest\'
from within that group
and those few, \'chosen\'
will devolve
fighting to keep that taste of power and influence, they now crave..
\'rinse and repeat\'
times millenniums, and spread it like a plague: conquering a planet
and that\'s why
anytime, we humans try to govern ourselves, inevitably
we end-up, sabotaging ourselves...

September 21st, 2021 04:31

Sum Zero Sum
L. B. Mek said:

\'The voices of children,
our enemy’s shield\'..
it always, infuriates me
when so-called activist\'s (especially those opportunistically abhorrent, celebs)
scream and shout about things,
they know so little about, because they choose
to dwell in their ignorance, excuses
for their pathetic virtue-signalling actions..
they never want the detailed complexities, just the fast-food
quick fixes...
so they\'ll march against one Nations actions for retaliatory warfare
and yet act all oblivious, when the Opposition
purposely, literally: utilises woman and children, as Shields, for their war mongering Regime...???!!!
If we let it, the absurdity of modernity\'s reality will eat us alive: truly!
But, we were gifted this life and like the generation\'s before us, who also decried this hypocrisy of social righteousness, in this warped reality, of phantom equality in our so-called evolved civility..
But!
we must, find a way to survive
yes we do our best, to create awareness and help those by our side
but we can\'t allow ourselves
to be swallowed-up by the bleakness in our horizon\'s of blanket night,
we must prevail, to get a glimpse
of Aurora\'s streaking forgiveness,
for another chance,
another day
another taste
of this blinked existence, we call life.
(another inspiring set of lines Kurt
had me typing away my feeble reply, as soon as I read that last line..
thanks for sharing, dear Poet)

September 20th, 2021 05:00

Duodenary
Jerry Reynolds said:

Great write, Kurt.

September 18th, 2021 16:08

Highway 93 Revisited
L. B. Mek said:

someday, if I continue to strive
I\'ll have earned the capacity and opportunity to write like you, wise Poet
and that day, when the cursor is blinking away
after my final word has found, its rightful place, I hope
I remember these words I write today
and in doing-so, pay homage
even for that momentary, melancholic - breath
to all those, that help guide me
in this endless, poetic journey...
(a Brilliant set of write\'s, Kurt!
that second poem \'18kt memories\', reads like an epitaph they would have thrown-in, at the Poet\'s corner, when Tennyson and those of his ilk got their grand celebratory funerals)

September 17th, 2021 03:40

Highway 93 Revisited
Jerry Reynolds said:

These are gems, Kurt.


September 16th, 2021 15:33

Time\'s Gauntlet
L. B. Mek said:

as I see it
\'They\' bequeathed us their Genius
for us to lean-on, knowing
we\'ll need it!\'
(these words you weaved, work on so many levels
personally, my initial interpretation
took me to our strained relationships with our muses or inspirations,
\'Searching for ideas
We challenge
—with voices from the past\')
a great shorty, succinct and unassuming
but imbued with so much depth, a true showcasing of layered poetic brevity

September 14th, 2021 04:07

Time\'s Gauntlet
Laura🌻 said:

Kurt,

‘Tis wise and prudent
to heed the
‘voices from the past’…
‘the legends’.

So much history to interpret and understand between the white spaces of your written gem.

Laura🌻



September 13th, 2021 22:57