Too big to absorb
Montana at hand
Its distance won’t focus
Montana at hand
Two eyes not enough
Montana at hand
Forever illusive
—Montana at hand
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
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
Moody Blues
What have we but life
both first and last
The rest an illusion
—of future’s past
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Ode To Kant
If time is a prior assumption
—all else falls into line
(Villanova University: May, 2023)
Mute Soundings
Trapped in between the lyric
and music
Wandering in a rhythm
of lost expectation
Blaming each note still unplayed
and unwritten
The echoes distend
in a moment’s undoing
Hearing a chorus
when no choir is present
Voices imagined
to sing my sequester
Wandering aimless
through scores of abandon
Harmony denied me
—nightmarish and deafening
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
The Lord’s Mirror
When given the moon
don’t ask for the stars
Light when reflected
—from Heaven afar
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Lamb Off The Altar
The birthmark of Satan
a spherical star
Old curse in the distance
new devils at war
His prophecy stolen
the markings of Cain
Madonna the virgin
rebirth unattained
Melody of darkness
blasphemies hymn
The garden left burning
original sin
Tomorrow in mourning
this moment on fire
The lamb off the altar
—redemption expired
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Memory’s Treasure
Yesterday’s future
tomorrow today
subsuming transcendence
in all that we say
Perpetually present
the time to recall
all life in this moment
whose instant befalls
Begin a new ending
to whirl in the wind
the clock a reminder
its hour hand spins
Memory’s treasure
the fuel to inspire
each log a new effigy
—raised from the fire
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
New Deal
Standing on the edge of forever
walking the tightest rope
Looking down into tomorrow’s abyss
devoid of any hope
The bottom rushing toward me
if one mistake is made
A footpath to a broken dream
too numb to be afraid
My past missteps surround me
daring me to jump
Reminding of what I can’t forget
this roiling morbid funk
But one last chance is taken
as I step outside myself
Shedding the fate of snake eyes past
—new cards the present dealt
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Time Sojourned
Visiting like an old friend
the song returned
Carrying memories
of time sojourned
Freeing the past
with lyrics sublime
Embracing the future
in melodies of rhyme
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Muerte Intus
Ever the temptress
whose motion deceives
There’s only one cure
for desires strip tease
She points and she lingers
distance her charm
Night her undressing
the smoke to disarm
She dares you to touch
while pulling away
Stripping emotion
your longing at bay
Till finally turning
the stage lights have dimmed
Anticipation
—killing within
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
An Anthology Of Perception 