Kurt Philip Behm

Birthrights In Limbo (+2)

In the beginning …

the past and future

were orphans

Lost in a silence

unnamed until

spoken

Waiting in anticipation

their birthrights

in limbo

The present expanding

its moment

—christened free

 

(The New Room: June, 2023)

 

 

A L\'affut

 

In rhythms of today

the silence of tomorrow

Where promise lies waiting

—for hope unfulfilled

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

 

 

To Astrud

 

A voice that still haunts me

and lives in my dreams

The first time I saw her

a boy of sixteen

 

She lived just a mile

from where I am now

A treasure so hidden

to whose memory I bow

 

The Samba and Rio

she took me along

Yet barely a man

making love to her song

 

My eyes can still close

and return to that beach

where my heart she first captured

—and never released

 

(The Day Astrud Gilberto Died: June 5, 2023)