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Different people
Characteristics same
The similarities distinctly evident
To the eyes
Evidently hidden
The mind agrees
Challenge
Hidden to be revealed
What’s the deal
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Kurt Philip Behm
Only A Poet…
  can change feelings into air,
  birthing new memory

Only A Poet…
  can transform night into day,
  lighting our spirits

Only A Poet…
  can define the indefinable,
  words meaning more than their letters allow

And only a Poet…
   can stab time in the heart,
   to bleed free and eternal
    —only a Poet

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Kurt Philip Behm
Poets…
Special Forces
Of the literary world

Rescuing confusion,
And then
Setting it free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Kurt Philip Behm
Poetry,
collaboration of one heart
and one mind

Written symbiotic,
for many voices
to sing

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Kurt Philip Behm
Here today and gone tomorrow,
the worm can quickly turn

A sun last set, all vision spent,
the sum of what you’ve learned

The baton is passed, your race has run,
the finish line now crossed

With memories firm and wishes free
—your soul its only cost

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Kurt Philip Behm
Escape in a Poem,
freedom unchained

Words come alive,
distant sirens renamed

Brevity conquers,
all urge to refrain

As magic unfolds
—the present reclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
putiira
Be someone's sunshine
and happy place
on their numb days.
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Khoisan
Tattoo
 Jun 2019 Ruheen
Khoisan
We needed the walls in our lives to break, we needed the people in our lives to be permanent, we needed the ocean with us on our journey, we needed a path for nature to be rediscovered, we needed love to be able to get recognition, we needed more than just to be tagged along like a place to paste the scars of graffiti, we needed this crazy thing we call skin to earn respect and we needed this to be called a universal trend.
The doctor
said,
"6 months
give or
take".

Spoke to me
like it was
my healing
time.

Like,
I would be
as good
as new
in 6 months.

In a way,
I guess that
he will be.
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