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

Petroglyphics

Writing the words

imprisoning the words

Lettered confinement

—frozen in time

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Calling From Within

Religion becoming meaningless

when propriety goes away

Nothing to sit atop the lies

nothing to lead astray

Claiming the title to prophecies spun

each figurehead stands tall

To augment the legend of what never was

—as Divinity still calls

(The New Room: January, 2023)

Feeling Its Weight

Waiting with answers

to questions unasked,

a vacuum state appears

Smelling the ozone

feeling its weight,

all time reduced to tears

A newness reborn

a prophecy filled,

the words await unsaid

As what was created

before it was made

—returns to raise the dead

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

The Call Of Denial

Nothing

can be its own explanation

Nothing

can leave itself

Nothing

can give dimension to time

Nothing

unsaid is spelt

Nothing

is nothing till something becomes

Nothing

a word unatoned

Nothing

that last page of unwritten rhyme

Nothing

—a temptress unknown

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Hidden In Plain Sight

Music has a special taste

feelings lost in sound

Touching heard across the room

vision by the pound

References left unto themselves

choir boys in tune

Trading what they never had

tribute to the loon

One last chance to make the grade

masks come flying off

Darwin leaving Born in chains

climbing through the moss

Menageries have come and gone

kaleidoscopes diffused

Nomenclature chameleons

—confounded and bemused

(The New Room: January, 2023)

Tracks Of The Behemoth

Life was born in the desert

but death came out of the sea

walking on all fours, breathing the air

—killing that never to be

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)

Endless String

Leonard Cohen…

an unfinished poem

blowing in the wind

forever reminding

—to start again

(The Main Point: January, 1972)

The Gift Of Futures Past

Bigger in my memory

smaller in my inclination

Regret a distant calling card

admonishing my name

Vacant in my recollection

bedded in my hopefulness

Joy a future invitation

—Heaven to proclaim

(Christmas Wishing: First Book Of Prayers- December, 2022)

Tracks Of The Dinosaur

Smaller in the rearview mirror

the past retreats from view

Perspective changing rearranging

the old supplanted new

Fading in a dying focus

dust beyond the wind

Blowing wild beyond our memory

—fates forgotten hymn

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)

Freedom Reigns

You can’t catch up to history

its ship no longer sails

Each chapter prisoned by the wind

times trilogy airmailed

To search within your destiny

the moments turn to gold

Where bookends fall and freedom reigns

—beyond the past retold

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)