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Resighted


I drift

into the mirror

chasing eyes 

that once were mine

 

And leave behind

the futile wish

in memory   

confined

 

The silver backing

traps my fear

releasing 

what’s been hidden

 

As I become

divorced from time

resighted 

— and regiven  

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)

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Kurt Philip Behm

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Blends personal mirror introspection with abstract time/identity dissolution

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple layered ideas compressed into brief lines; dense imagery and philosophy

DarkSentimentBright

Melancholic, trapped fear and loss; some redemption in release and transformation

StillEnergyExplosive

Restless internal momentum; fragmented syntax creates urgency without explosiveness

MicroLengthEpic

Micro poem: single stanza, approximately 6 lines when properly parsed

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Heavy metaphor (mirror/self), personification (silver backing), abstract philosophical imagery

LyricVoiceDramatic

Pure lyric internal voice; first-person consciousness exploring selfhood introspectively

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