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

The Road

24 hours

alone with myself

the road goes on and on

 

24 hours

in my own space

exemption rides along

 

24 hours

eternity breached

its imagery returns

 

24 hours

tomorrow today

whose light forever burns

 

24 hours

becoming undone

the parts fall back in place

 

24 hours

the wind at my back

withdrawing from the race

 

24 hours

a voice calls my name

in birth year reverie

 

24 hours

my soul to reclaim

in what was meant to be

 

24 hours

Kerouac damned

a false reflection shown

 

24 hours

each road sign that calls

direction out on loan

 

24 hours

the moment reframed

once lost but now refound

 

24 hours

24 lifetimes

—inward outward bound

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

 

 

Truth (above & beyond)

 

Above party

Above caste

Above station

Above place

Above state

Above nation

Above riches

Above race

 

And the reasons

And excuses

And the grief

And the shame

And the guilt

And the sanctions

And the blood

And the stain

 

Beyond language

Beyond history

Beyond reason

Beyond fate

Beyond now

Beyond later

Beyond love

—beyond hate

 

(The New Room: June, 2023)

 

Marking The Secrets

Violence deceives 

in the absence of love

 masking a template

that fits like a glove

 

Destruction and madness

call from within

where lies have embedded

in footnotes to sin

 

Violence festers

in spirit deformed

to strike ever constant

those feelings unborn

 

Its petroglyph’s holler

from caves deep inside

marking the secrets

—we most try to hide

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

McAllen Blues

The invasion upon us

attacked by a neighbor

no village is safe

their scourge overruns

 

The enemy dressed

as civilian turistas

our border wide open

and freely they come

 

No shots have been fired

or prisoners taken

the keys to our arsenal

willingly loaned

 

Our schools now infested

with quotas bespoken  

surrounded and cornered

—the fault but our own

 

(McAllen Texas: September, 2022)