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Searchers Take Flight


Upon reaching the top

I found a new bottom

Polarity shifts

once the apples are rotten

 

Direction a ruse

of misguided fruition

Where searchers take flight

— in a new convolution 

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)

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Kurt Philip Behm

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Philosophical paradox of ascent/descent; personal discovery abstracted into universal truth

SparseMeasureDense

Dense idea progression: achievement, reversal, deception, transformation across compressed lines

DarkSentimentBright

Disillusionment dominates; rot, ruse, and misguided paths create dark undertone

StillEnergyExplosive

Kinetic momentum via polarity shifts and flight; intensified by fragmented syntax

MicroLengthEpic

Six lines; micro poem territory with elliptical compression

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Rich metaphor (apples, rotten fruit, flight); personification and paradox throughout

LyricVoiceDramatic

Pure lyric introspection; no narrative or dramatic persona present

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