Kurt Philip Behm Poems

Growing simpler with
each passing year

The leaves turn
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The greatest Poem I ever wrote…
the one I just laid down

The one to last a thousand years
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Where would we be without language,
still naked around the fire

Trading bones with a grunt or moan,
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I live in places
you've never seen

And sleep in nightmares
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Where do dreams go
once you've dreamed them

Where do feelings go
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Keeping emotion inside
the words go mute

Casting decision aside
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Can there be a top
without a bottom

A beginning
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My DNA lettered
My bloodstream in verse
My feelings in couplets
My last goes to first
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Giving in to the writing
all else went to hell

The bills stayed unpaid
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Can men fight without symbols
where victory calls beyond love and hate

Can men die without symbols
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