Kurt Philip Behm

In Remembrance (+4)

 

If you say a man’s name,

he’s forever alive

 

Come hell or highwater,

  the reasons abide

 

Losing someone’s greatness,

losing part of our own

 

Entombed in remembrance

—shared forever alone

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

 

 

Against The Wind

 

Embracing indecision,

abandonment confronts you

 

My branches sharp and pointed,

my roots all buried deep

 

I pity your reluctance,

as the forest casts you lonely

 

A single tree in meadows vast

—alone against the wind

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

 

Once Denied

 

Fruitions seed is larger still,

get out your watering can

 

Fifty past one hundred years,

to shade what light began

 

Wisdom’s tree the hardest wood,

 millennium to rise

 

Truth ingrained, its bark unstained

—transcendence once denied

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

Enchante\'

 

Magic passes through you,

though never yours to own

 

Taking you beyond yourself

—gifted spell unknown

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

 

 

Two Times

 

Sometimes,

you have to leave to come back

 

Sometimes,

the line needs to go slack

 

Sometimes,

the loss is more to be gained

 

Sometimes,

the past—twice rearranged

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)