Kurt Philip Behm

...Or Not To Be (+4)

Full time poet,

part time novelist

 

Full time storyteller,

part time bard

 

The difference greater

than words will imply

 

Hemispheric divergence

—the why and the how

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

Wasted Breath

 

Bad prose masquerading as poetry,

darkness posing as light

 

Words stacked on top of words uttered in vain

—narcissists delight

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

Heaven\'s Gate

 

Science…

mankind’s great attempt

—to become Divine

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

 

What Goes Around...

 

Clapton\'s first three chords,

 his last three chords,

 my words have done the same

 

Verses once muddled,

distant and skewed,

now thunder down like rain

 

The syllables left

are short and pointed,

their edges razor sharp

 

To cut the remaining

clinging vines

—setting fire to the dark

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

 

Mjolnir

 

Hammering the dark silence,

Thor bludgeons the night

 

Releasing with thunder

—a storm gods delight

 

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)