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

Hearts On The Run

The power of poetry

to drive away love

A surrogate impostor

indentured above

Whether spoken or written

its message the same

All feelings imprisoned

in words that explain

 

When waxing poetic

the birds and the trees

Laughing not with you

but at you it seems

Intention enamored

from rhyme to blank verse

With hearts on the run

—and heaven to curse

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: May, 2023)

Twilight Sojourns

Days weave together

as night tears at the seams

Light as it vanishes

deserting my dreams

 

The sun making promises

darkness reneges

The truth stays an orphan

that both will misgive

 

The rooster to signal

that devil’s retreat

Hope spawning a sunrise

where wishes beseech

 

All joy upon waking

released from the pall

The clock now a weapon

that hangs on the wall

 

In mutual exclusion

our psyches must live

A damned symbiosis

all take and no give

 

But hands will fall southward

the shadows reborn

This daydream a nightmare

—as twilight sojourns  

 

(Bryn Mawr College: April, 2023)