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

Tears Of The Founders

We’ve abused our great freedoms

to reap the results

with school and church shootings

hate speech a new cult 

 

No respect for the flag

or sacrifice made

ignoring our veterans

despoiling their graves 

 

Our streets wait in ambush

where the enemy hides

to prowl in a wasteland

where evil decides 

 

The constitution a weapon

to pervert and inflict

traitorous courts

with laws nondescript  

 

And blindly we run

(toward the cliff)

 greed our marching song

narcissism the battle cry

—America is gone    

 

(Ardmore Pennsylvania: April, 2023)

No Cigar

You can’t teach poetry pro forma

it’s the effort of a fool

You can’t gain sagacity from a book

or by the golden rule

 

You can’t be what you haven’t lived

the safety net misleads

You can’t bleed with another’s blood

transfused each phrase deceives

 

The dance floor or the balcony

true seekers get to choose

And write those words their pain has forged

—that dilettantes misuse

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)