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

Life Reclaimed

Man is predestined

to destroy his world

Consciously damning

‘free choice’ unfurled

 

An apex predator

upon himself

No rhyme or reason

or logic dealt

 

Self-destruction

his stock in trade

His nature foreign

to all else made

 

Killing his brothers

killing his sons

Shakespeare prescient

of what’s to come

 

Time irreverent

he never learns

What sets him free

his folly spurns

 

The clock is running

the hour late

His words now toxic

and filled with hate

 

And when it’s over

but one thing changed

A new world order

—with life reclaimed

 

(Bryn Mawr College: June, 2023)

 

 

  

Heavenly Terms

Owing a debt

you can never repay

Beatitudes leveraged

salvation in play

 

Moments beholden

to all that’s to come

Providence calling

in voices unsung

 

Eternally liable

the invoice sublime

Whose terms reverential

the bursar Divine

 

The wings of an angel

the wings of a dove

In debt to forgiveness

—absolved from above

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

 

Voice Of Acceptance

An orphan of destiny

whose birthmark disowns

A life spent indentured

his spirit on loan

 

Caught in a time warp

unable to leave

The future in chains

contentment bereaved

 

A child of the moment

left on the streets

Time as his captor

in shoes of concrete

 

Forever unwelcome

a foster relayed

From instant to instant

his memory replays

 

An orphan of destiny

whose grief is reborn

In weeks unrelenting

his calendar scorned

 

Last chance at adoption

it calls from within

The voice of acceptance

—from him unto him

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

 

Ashes In Shame

Bus drivers and plumbers

don’t start the wars

The nurse or school teacher

too busy inured

What’s common among us

with tasks to withstand

The elected entitled

our blood on their hands

Without a real job

and whose terms don’t expire

They poison the well

with aggrandizements dire

To them it’s a game

that they cannot lose

Their voters just pawns

in a continual ruse

But one day the reaper

with sickle in hand

Will come to reclaim

what’s stolen bedamned

And the serfs will rise up

in an infamous rage

The despots left burning

—their ashes in shame

 

(Radnor Pennsylvania: June, 2023)