Kurt Philip Behm

Dark Ransom (+3)

Hope trumped last

  a prisoner of death

 

A final capitulation

  —devil’s ransom beset

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

No Favors

 

We do no favors

  labeling genius

 

We do no favors

  channeling the light

 

We do no favors

  defining perfection

 

We do no favors

  —questioning delight

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

 

Divided And Split

 

Do you have to do something

  you loathe or then hate

 

To finance the thing

  that you love

 

Do you plod to a tune

  out of step and off key

 

To dance freely with what

  comes from above

 

Do the moments you steal

  and those stolen from you

 

Stand opposed or conjoined

  at the hip

 

Are those times rare and precious

  to freely aspire

 

Worth a life lived divided

   —and split

 

(Train from White River Junction: March, 2016)

 

Love\'s Captive

 

Surrendering to love

  —an imprisonment of joy!

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)