Author: Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with sixteen books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume six which is being published this Spring. Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

Becoming The Dream

Today

I unlocked

a new window

One

I had never

opened before

Air

rushing in

calling me back

Voices

familiar

yet foreign to name

And

as I passed through

that new window

Leaving

behind

what used to be me

Losing

my shadow

to futures long past

Reaching

for something

—becoming the dream

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Slip Sliding Away

What can’t be forgiven

must be forgotten

Memory the catalyst

for sorrow and pain

The future endemic

its danger befalls us

Salvation escaping

—reluctant to change

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Dark Bequeathal

Do our children inherit

our shadows

Denied of the light

their birthright implies

Willing them darkness

in probated limbo

Leaving what sorrow

—forever reminds

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

False Exit

Escaping your humanity

—the biggest myth of all

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Cresting The Trough

If your heart is open

and true

Your grief is as deep

as your love

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

When Life Was Perfect

The difference between

what you want

and what you need

—is what you can fit on a motorcycle

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Circling The Square

Can nothing extend

beyond something…

Can never be

possibly where…

Can dreamers awaken

the insomniacs sleep…

Can no place

ever be there…

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Coming About

We make the truth we need

to worship gods of time

And love in spite of hate

whose conjure ill defined

We set the past in stone

to keep tomorrow chaste

And travel inward free of both

—whose presence we displace

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Waiting For Godel

Gravity is

and gravity isn’t

Based on who’s looking

perceptions command

Less for the physicist

more for the poet

Science self-serving

two feet in the sand

Pulling us forward

pushing us back

intrinsic within us

as natural as air

Inside each moment

the stricture forgotten

Transcendent surrender

—polarity spared

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Mixed Ancient Metaphors

The words taste like music

from worlds long ago

Each letter resavored

in harmonies old

Coming to harvest

their sweetness imbues

A cave for an orchard

in wall painted hues

Old symbols retilling

those questions inside

Reborn when discovered

then never to hide

The silos refilling

new birthrights to seed

Replanted within us

—a symphony freed

(The New Room: January, 2023)