Forever In Shade (+3)

Kurt Philip Behm

The light of remembrance

  the will’s DNA

 

Entombed by dementia

 —forever in shade

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

Redemption Near

 

Did you waste your life

  just making money

 

Did you eat the bread

  and not the honey

 

Did you sell your soul

  as your children watched

 

Was your heart left cold

  in a tinderbox

 

Were your excuses rich

  and your reasons poor

 

Did you wake up full

  and still ask for more

 

Were your blessings shunned

  as you scratched and clawed

 

Saying no harm done

  “I never broke the law”

 

Were you teeth all straightened

  and your motives bent

 

Were your eyes detached

  from what heaven sent

 

Were your memories lost

  in some dead refrain

 

As a lonely footnote

  to another’s name

 

If you had one chance

  to re-right these wrongs

 

Would you hide in silence

  or break out in song

 

With your soul imprisoned

  the choice is clear

 

All joy awaits

 —redemption near

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

 

Daydreams

 

The nursery, a womb

   where fantasy begins

 

The clay, the permission

  for the sculptor to sin

 

The keyboard, the staircase

  to a heavenly score

 

The day, once forsaken

   —its daydream records

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

Alleyways Of Stone

 

A highway of regret…

 an avenue of denial

 

A boulevard of hopes and dreams

 where footsteps have defiled

 

A thoroughfare of wanton time

 each choice a dead end road

 

In fated plundered wanderlust

 —dark alleyways of stone

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)  

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: September 16th, 2018 12:05
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • Laura🌻

    Kurt,

    Two super poems that resonate for various reasons. I shall elaborate at another time!

    ~Laura~

  • rrodriguez

    I've always enjoy your couplets' sense of wisdom...

    • Kurt Philip Behm

      Thanks, appreciate you reading...

      Kurt



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