Do you find yourself
under those stones that you’ve thrown
Pummeled with self-hatred
forever alone
Looking up in delirium
Goliath parades
Blinding your vision
—a gravesite charade
(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)
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
Full Circle
Mistake #1
not being heard
Mistake #2
explaining the words
Mistake #3
a phrase zero-sum
Mistake #4
mistake #1
(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)
Within The Silence
Regretting a dream
…Folies Bergere
Exhaling the magic
Marseille in despair
Seeking forgiveness
Vive Champs elysees
Mimes feigning answers
Montmartre chardonnay
(Café de La Paix: December, 1979)
Too Much – Too Many
Too fat, too thin
to fly
Too rich, too poor
to buy
Too lost, too found
to try
Too young, too old
to die
(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)
Before The Flood
Death was invented
when life tired of the living
Eternity flexing
—the muscles of time
(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)
Donde Van Ellas
Where do those lives go
when a cat doesn’t use them
Where do memories go
when no one can recall
Where do wishes go
when hope is abandoned
Where do lovers go
—when the love is gone
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
Crossing Over
Expect good things
the moment breathes
Your fear abandoned
the darkness leaves
When least expected
the current calls
Tomorrow waiting
—beyond the falls
(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)
Time’s Rebirth
Reality pregnant
gestation released
Facts have been fathered
new mothers beseeched
The door to tomorrow
swings only one way
Birthing conception
—redemption belayed
(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)
Questioning The Answers
What, who, or where
the sages portend
What, who, or where
the shamans belie
What, who, or where
the scholars defend
What, who, or where
—not questioning why
(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)
Untitled
The only time we escape
the jungle
—is in self delusion
(State College Pennsylvania: November, 1970)
An Anthology Of Perception 