Distinction
without difference
Where shadows
defame
Laughter
without smiles
Embodied
in shame
Each story
redundant
Whose print
stays uninked
As eyes
search for mercy
That last
—missing link
(Las Vegas Boulevard: February, 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
Baptism’s Fire
The road to paradise
begins in hell
If you long for peace
—embrace the war
(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)
Baptizing The Vacuum
What is the substance
of nothingness
With nothingness the substance
of thought
Where is the truth
in indifference
Apathetically frozen
when taught
How then to measure
reluctance
With action the villain
of time
Seeking to baptize
the vacuum
Where consonants hide
—from the rhyme
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2023)
Feeding The Raven
You can’t burn out
if you’re not on fire
Jim roaming wild
pyre to pyre
The only way out
the only way in
Flaming the moment
—death rebegins
(Las Vegas Boulevard: January, 2023)
Becoming The Dream
Today
I unlocked
a new window
One
I had never
opened before
Air
rushing in
calling me back
Voices
familiar
yet foreign to name
And
as I passed through
that new window
Leaving
behind
what used to be me
Losing
my shadow
to futures long past
Reaching
for something
—becoming the dream
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
Slip Sliding Away
What can’t be forgiven
must be forgotten
Memory the catalyst
for sorrow and pain
The future endemic
its danger befalls us
Salvation escaping
—reluctant to change
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
Dark Bequeathal
Do our children inherit
our shadows
Denied of the light
their birthright implies
Willing them darkness
in probated limbo
Leaving what sorrow
—forever reminds
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
False Exit
Escaping your humanity
—the biggest myth of all
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
Cresting The Trough
If your heart is open
and true
Your grief is as deep
as your love
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
When Life Was Perfect
The difference between
what you want
and what you need
—is what you can fit on a motorcycle
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
An Anthology Of Perception 