Kurt Philip Behm

Nom De Plume (+1)

It’s important

 what you get called

has a name,

one you can take

to the ivory

border

It’s important

what you’re called

is remembered the same,

today recollected

tomorrow

reordered

A mark on the stone

no longer

unknown,

your history and

legacy

rendered

Sapphire crystal

overlord set,

the past

eponymous  

the future

—kismet

 

(The New Room: February, 2021)

 

 

 

Accompli\'

 

The final poem that I write…

a comment on itself

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)

 

 

 

OORAH

 

The land of the free,

 the home of the brave

 

Inclusive together

—America saved

 

(Valley Forge: February, 2021)

 

 

Ah Liberty

 

If

“Condemned To Be Free”

as Sartre said,

Then

doom me forever

—unchained and unled

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: February, 2021)