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

Diamonds & Pearls

An Old-Man-Child

in an adult world

Alone in their gather

of cocktails and swirl

 

Again but an alien

as when he was eight

The steps to acceptance

he’s loathe to retrace

 

The pomp and the patter

falls deaf on his ears

Each slap on the back

reinforcing his fear

 

An Old-Man-Child

in an adult world

shunning their presents

—midst diamonds and pearls

 

 

(The New Room: June, 2023)

Spiritus Sancti

The divinity of art

hiding in the folds

Draping o’er the multitudes

placing time on hold   

 

Its pristine encumbrance

so gently it calls

Speaking to our purity

transcending the small

 

The divinity of art  

in all of its forms

Its music seeks to woo us

its canvas adorns

 

And once it gains entry

our emptiness hides

Eternity surrenders  

—and Heaven presides

 

(The New Room: May, 2023)

Woebegone

No matter who you vote for

the government gets in

Left or right, day brings night

with colors gray and thin

 

The better parts of nature

get worse as time goes on

Bilateral infection

whose cure is woebegone

 

As hubcaps change in order

the wheels forever spin

Tomato or tomatto

that same old song to sing

 

A baby leaves its mother

new brick to build the wall

Ramparts trapping all inside

—beyond which prescience calls

 

(The New Room: May, 2023)