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Lifelong writer with 15 books published ( three poetry). I wrote my first serious poem in 1971. Website: kurtphilipbehm.com

  March 2015     20 mins ago

Submitted Poems 4,385 total

No Escape

Poet’s sleep
with their memories
to hate or to love
Voices unanswered
the night’s
turtledove
Darkness remembers
what daylight
forgets
As dreamers
reenter
— what twilight begets

(Dreamsleep: April,...

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Send In The Clowns ...

Do you treasure
perplexity
strive to confuse
doubting the obvious
pandering the ruse

Do you live inside
cloud cover
avoiding the sun
exposure avoided
your fear on the run

Do you hide
behind bombast
the panderer’s lie
your costumes...

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Shepherd's Watch

A voice for the voiceless
whose cry still unheard
Alone in the womb
but blessed by the Word

Defending the helpless
as murderers loom
Divinity watching
— a reckoning soon

(The New Room: April, 2024)...

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The Path Along The Schuylkill

The Path Along The Schuylkill

It was January 4th 1778, and once again the General had not slept well. He rose before dawn and as was his practice, he wandered down to the southern banks of the Schuylkill River. Valley...

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Bridging Tomorrow

Like waking and
breakfast
it’s poetry first

The day is so
ordered
quenching my thirst

Each word like a
greeting
the day on parade

Each feeling
endemic
— another one saved

(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)...

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Thanks Amanda. Very kind of you.

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Thanks again, Alan. My son and I wrote this together.

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Don't worry about subjective ratings — follow your heart.

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Thanks

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Thanks AJ, I really sleep fine. Just a metaphor.

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Me too, Alan. Thanks

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Thanks Ronald

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Again, it's yours.

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Thanks again.

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It's your, thanks.

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Thank you.

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I may 'borrow ' Stillness Is Entropy' from you. Thanks for reading.

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Very kind, thanks again.

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Many thanks.

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Thank you.

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