Kurt Philip Behm

My Pen To Flow

I’ve forever written

  as myself

Few influences will

  show

Neither Hemingway nor

  Faulkner

 Not Melville or

  Thoreau

But as one who saw through

  all of that

With so much more

  to know

 I search the land

   and stars above

For ink

  —my pen to flow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)

Sleeping Untold

Like a blanket or quilt,

  the Muse wraps me in consciousness

Sealing me in with her warmth

  each night rejecting the cold

Like a filter or screen,

  the Muse tempers all consequence

 Under her protection and safety

   —words sleeping untold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)

Last Moth

There’s a zone beyond safety

 where the timid can’t go

Beyond reasoned decision

 intuition to flow

Past valor and triumph

 past glory and fame

There’s a zone beyond safety

 —last moth to the flame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)