Kurt Philip Behm Poems

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241.
Look Up

The many intersections of life
obscured in complexity
Go left or go right
to stay or move on
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242.
Auscultation

Hearing vibrations
passivity strains
Learning to listen
hearkening reigns
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243.
Gone & Forgotten

Owning
the memories
of the years
without me
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244.
Grand-Pere

A legacy for a father
waiting uninspired
Painted by the numbers
paternity required
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245.
'The Glue'

Before there was light
before there was sound
Gravity wandered
the universe round
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246.
22 Caught

Knowing they were
discreditable
He refused to examine
the motives
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247.
'Now'

A finer point
this very instant
all stars align
— the word
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248.
Last Gasp

When battling
time
the moment
retreats
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249.
Wounded Knee

Like a hailstorm you came uninvited
and blew the Lakota
off sacred land
Religion, cheap liquor
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250.
Big Red

Where fire's rage
no flame unfanned
The cinch retightened
no also ran
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