Kurt Philip Behm

Myself, I Bring (+5)

    Myself I Bring

 

Living in a rented room

  my thoughts became my own

 

Living in a rented room

  my borrowed soul was owned

 

Living in a rented room

  the fog began to lift

 

Living in a rented room

  my spirit set adrift

 

Living in a rented room

  the moment now the thing

 

Living in a rented room

  —to me, myself I bring

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

 

 

      Arrival

 

When your art

Becomes divorced

From any end result

 —you have arrived

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

 

 

What Drives Me Still

 

The light through

My Grandmother’s

Bedroom window

Called out to me

 

‘Calls out to me’

 

Leading me to places

Where I had to go

Revisiting me now

In my twilight years

 

‘In my twilight years’

 

Reminding me again

Of those places I’ve been

And my reasons for going

As the mileposts shone

 

‘And the mileposts shine’

 

Reaching into the distance

Where the horizon pulled

And the dawn arrived

In what drove me once

 

‘In what drives me still’

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

 

 

Obsessio

 

The past faded

  as ideas came alive

 

Destroying with every thought

 the status…

   —of the status quo

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

 

Two Thoughts- 10/9/2018

 

              Vindicta

 

The ends justify the means

   —when the means entail revenge

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

 

 

Sum = Zero

 

Totality expanded

The sum is now zero

Risk and certitude

 —one and the same

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

 

 

Beyond Love And Hate

 

Can men fight without symbols

  where victory calls beyond love and hate

 

Can men die without symbols

  or reason conquer the blindest faith

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)