Kurt Philip Behm

Venire Ad Vitam (+1)

When you speak

to me

a certain way

I can see the words

 

Shaped and formed

with wings

of gold

 freeing what I’ve heard

 

When you speak

to me

a certain way

I can taste the wind

 

Calling forth

my hopes and dreams

— tendered from within

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)

 

 

Past That Place

 

If words were notes upon a score

would the melody play beyond … 

Each phrase a chord, each line a hymn

each paragraph a song 

If words could sing harmonic

  as their letters drift away 

Would music take you past that place

— verse forces you to stay

 

(The Book Of Prayers: March, 2017)