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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     3 hours ago

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Auscultation

Hearing vibrations
passivity strains
Learning to listen
hearkening reigns
Sound and resonance
euphony binds
Volition the ears
— eternity finds

(Herb Alpert: June, 2024)...

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Look Up

The many intersections of life
obscured in complexity
Go left or go right

 to stay or move on

The interchange of salvation
whose overpass eludes us
An escape of transcendence
— most never find

(The New Room: June,...

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Angel Muse

Hidden from perdition
disguising me again
Final thorn of life’s florescence
trapped within her pen

Darker than the madness
eternity cajoles
The pathway to forbidden fruit
— her masquerade unfolds

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

– by Kurt Philip Behm

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Through The Mist

Virtuoso
take me home
to a place
I’ve never been before

Virtuoso
play my song
in a voice
I’ve never heard in lore

Virtuoso
be my Muse
your flute heard calling
through the mist

Virtuoso
fortune’s child
when darkness casts
— my...

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Tribute To Sly

Under the beat
between the notes
inside the groove
— FUNK

(Tower Theater: May, 1974)...

– by Kurt Philip Behm

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Thanks RB.

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Thanks

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Me too.

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Thanks for taking the time to read it, Alan.

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Thanks so much.

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Thanks Alan

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Thanks for reading.

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Thanks Amanda

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Appreciate, thanks

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Thank you

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Thanks for reading.

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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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