Words are like paint
your voice is the brush
The image though spoken
both vivid and lush
Each page but a portrait
your canvas when bound
Today and tomorrow
—eternity’s sound
(The New Room: August, 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
As Wheels Fall Off …
A simulated consciousness
beyond our will to choose
Defying Einstein, Bohr, and Hume
where logic stands defused
The matter at hand can’t matter
when rules unwrite themselves
An order once thought preordained
—entropic and indwelt
(The New Room: August, 2023)
Last Riff
Pounding each key
like a Fender Rhodes
the computer bent and wailed
Bits and bytes
of encrypted language
messages derailed
Memory freezes
last chance rebooted
restart zero-sum
The riff uncapped
its printout fading
—typeface on the run
(The New Room: 8/6/2023)
Veritas Rex
Nothing more powerful
than speaking the truth
Pangs of deception
beguile uncouth
Spoken immortal
knighted profound
Today and tomorrow
—veracity crowned
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Waiting For An Answer
Sleep, sleep,
tiny footsteps of death
walking through my dreams
hiding from the light
Calling out my name,
waiting for an answer
guardian of the exit
—to damn or delight
(The New Room: August, 2023)
Haunting Silences
Whispers …
deep inside my pillow
Reminding
of each fleeting voice
trapped beyond the wind
Memories …
bending like a willow
Weighing down
my broken dreams
—the future lost within
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
Amicis
Friends …
commitment beyond blood
diamonds among pearls
—family of choice
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
No Curtain Call
As we age
death
reclaims us
Stealing
our youth
and then our hope
In the ground
where
memories rot
Willing us
nothing
—but the dark
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
Day By Day
The only thing permanent
about peace
—is impermanence
(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)
Dreams Steal Away
Everything tended
to darken around her
The light from the sun
all feelings deferred
Her winter foreboding
sucks air from the room
Constant denials
predictions of doom
Pawning tomorrow
the price of today
Happiness bartered
her dreams steal away
Everything tended
to darken around her
Shadows descending
—the future interred
(The New Room: July, 2023)
An Anthology Of Perception 