You can’t fall off
the middle
Direction
yours to choose
Which way conceals
your downfall
Which way
awaits the Muse
The center offers
safety
Encircled
in the flow
Whose currents
hide a Siren
Enticing
— you below
(Dreamsleep: January, 2025)
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
Perfection …
The difference between
too much
— and not enough
(Dreamsleep: January, 2025)
Wasted Breath
If your verse
is not remembered
Then all that time
was lost
Pretty words
and clever lines
Will melt
like Winter’s frost
If what you say
is subject
To what the wind
will blow
Time better spent
the less you vent
All verbiage
— to forego
(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)
Behind The Fuse Box
The wiring harness
connecting life
crossed
but grounded sure
Eluding sight
and force of will
its power
most secure
And only seen
when time shorts out
in flashes
not to last
Of red and black
and green contacts
that charge
— the future past
(The New Room: January, 2025)
Memories Lure
Where have all
the heroes gone
Immortalized
in film and song
Bigger than the roles
they played
Magic lost
in time’s belay
Where are all
the pillars strewn
Monuments
to highest noon
Closed are now
the paths they forged
Orphaned
— in their memories lure
(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
Beyond The Badge
While sitting as one
in my grandfather’s chair
Gunsmoke on screen
a Dodge City affaire
Saturday night
as two spirits entwine
Matt Dillon to marshal
— our hopes redefined
(The New Room: December, 2025)
Shadow’s Defining
Dark Angel
of memory
returning to haunt
Those musings
left orphaned
bone stricken and gaunt
In shadows
defining
what sleep can’t abide
I’m forced to remember
what time
— cannot hide
(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
Chariot To Heaven
The shortest route to eternity
— the Warrior
(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
Tears Of My Fathers
Inheriting
my shadow
Its legacy
dark
Willed into
my memory
Devoid
of a spark
No light
to define it
Or outline
inscribed
The emptiness
preying
Where ancestor’s
— cry
(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
The Torch Passed
The Ancestral Pen
when passing down
to heirs apparent
is thus endowed
Its ink distilling
what time cannot
a legacy willing
what can’t be bought
The Ancestral Pen
rewrites the tome
of generations
that sat the throne
From voices distant
to voices near
the torch is passed
— the future clear
(The New Room: December, 2025)
An Anthology Of Perception 