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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     15 hours ago

Submitted Poems 4,406 total

Calling Me Home (Day 7) unedited

Day #7: Vernal to Cortez

The next morning, I was on Rt #40 and headed from Vernal Utah to Dinosaur Colorado. I wished that I had had the time to go into the dinosaur museum again. When I was last there, over fifteen years ago, they had a...

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Cartesian Faith

Either God is
or He isn’t
All human reasoning
— dust in the wind

(Ode To Descartes: ‘I Believe, Therefore He Is’) May,...

– by kurt philip

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Calling Me Home (Day 6) unedited

Day #6: Salmon Idaho to Vernal Utah

I was the first motorcyclist to leave the next morning from an overly full parking lot. It was 6:45 a.m., and you couldn’t fit even one more bike anywhere on the normally empty lot. Some late arrivals were now...

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Cheshire Musing

Prose and its narrative
the lazy alternative
Words most abundant
meaning defined

Declarative function
it reads codependent
As poets but smile
— with language refined

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May,...

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Sound Bites: May, 2024

Out from under
the burden of proof
Changing the argument
— freeing the truth

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Saying it shorter
staying intact
Words more empowered
— tightening the slack

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Writing … the cake
Reading … the icing
Licking the spoon

 — crumbs...

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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 for commenting.

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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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