Author: Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 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 8 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. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood 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

Commanding The Flood

Water takes on form

determined by the container

Its main characteristic

forever to move downward

 

An army’s defenses

should act like water

Filling in the empty spaces

of the attacker’s weakness

 

Where mind and spirit meet

darkness turns to daylight

Once you luminate the battlefield 

you can counter at any time

 

When your will pierces

the enemy’s fear and turns it against them

You swallow their spirit

digesting it whole

 

Advancing as one

withdrawing as one

Victory of great consequence

knows no other way

 

Winning flows in torrents

 through the heart of the commander

Whose soldiers fight through strength of hand

—in currents to define

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)