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)
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
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)
Circling The Square
Can nothing extend
beyond something…
Can never be
possibly where…
Can dreamers awaken
the insomniacs sleep…
Can no place
ever be there…
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
Coming About
We make the truth we need
to worship gods of time
And love in spite of hate
whose conjure ill defined
We set the past in stone
to keep tomorrow chaste
And travel inward free of both
—whose presence we displace
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
Waiting For Godel
Gravity is
and gravity isn’t
Based on who’s looking
perceptions command
Less for the physicist
more for the poet
Science self-serving
two feet in the sand
Pulling us forward
pushing us back
intrinsic within us
as natural as air
Inside each moment
the stricture forgotten
Transcendent surrender
—polarity spared
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
An Anthology Of Perception 