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

Empty Barrels

Is most of your life spent

alone in the dark

Hiding from rainbows

in colorless spite

The sun waits a mistress

the evening a whore

That paid by the hour

exposes your blight

 

Professing in earnest

those things you don’t know

Whose pontification

a mask that conceals

What others see clearly

fate not to deceive

Delusion and bluster

—your folly revealed

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

Till Dawn

Are you frightened by things

that return in the night

 things that crawl inward

 things lost from sight

 

Is darkness a veil

to hide and conceal

what daylight sends running

what daylight reveals

 

Your memory a spring

that evening coils back

reloading your fear

as shadows attack

 

And sleep brings no refuge

when dreams have been damned

whose nightmares will haunt you

—till dawn is at hand

 

(Villanova University: August, 2023)