1969-1971 (+1)

Kurt Philip Behm

California Dreamin…

Momma Told Me Not To Come

By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Will Anybody Really Know What Time Has Spun

 

Hotel California…

Its Chain Gang wearing thin

Searching for an American Woman

Blowin In The Wind

 

Bill Bojangles Robinson…

preaching Fire And Rain

New York’s A Lonely Lonely Town

dragging Ball And Chain

 

Summertime Blues and Porgy’s drowning…

Riders On The Storm

Layla kisses Judy Blue Eyes

Stairway To Heaven scorned

 

Woodstock and a Big Bear Scrambler…

Who’ll Stop The Rain

Don’t Think Twice this Hard Day’s Night

 Eli’s Comin again

 

Hey Jude, Moondance is calling…

It’s Too Late says Ms. King

Yesterday’s Hound Dog barking Crazy

—the Purple Haze begins

 

(Rosemont College: June, 2022)

 

 

Lost In Jericho

 

Without death

life loses all beauty

Without death

life loses its way

Without death

life’s value diminished

Without death

life reasons to pray

 

Without death

life’s years lose their value

Without death

life’s seething refrain

Without death

life loses its prescience

Without death

—life dearth to explain

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 20th, 2022 09:35
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Comments4

  • Jerry Reynolds

    Very profound, Kurt.

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Thanks Jerry.

  • L. B. Mek

    deep, and so intricately woven
    a joy to read
    inspiringly illuminating, to contemplate..
    thanks for sharing, dear Poet

  • Doggerel Dave

    Memories of the sixties - evokes memories I DO remember. -Thank you.
    Death poem - a solid truth - thanks again Kurt.



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