Professional Poet
—consummate oxymoron
(Dreamsleep: June, 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
Spiritual Tenancy
Leasing eternity…
sorrowful joy
Rent paid in moments
death’s choirboy
Light deeded tenure
sight to regain
Conceptual escrow
—vision’s domain
(The New Room: June, 2022)
Spiritual Tenancy
Leasing eternity…
sorrowful joy
Rent paid in moments
death’s choirboy
Light deeded tenure
sight to regain
Conceptual escrow
—vision’s domain
(The New Room: June, 2022)
Destiny’s Union
Brothers by birth
brothers in arms
Blood running deepest
unity warns
Brothers in life
brothers in death
Destiny’s union
—sharing one breath
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
Abeyant
Biting my tongue
the words choke inside me
Moments digested
—unable to rise
(Deamsleep: June, 2022)
Lost In Jericho
Without death
life loses all beauty
Without death
life loses its way
Without death
life’s value diminished
Without death
life reasons to pray
Without death
life’s years lose their value
Without death
life’s seething refrain
Without death
life loses its prescience
Without death
—life dearth to explain
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
1969-1971
California Dreamin…
Momma Told Me Not To Come
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Will Anybody Really Know What Time Has Spun
Hotel California…
Its Chain Gang wearing thin
Searching for an American Woman
Blowin In The Wind
Bill Bojangles Robinson…
preaching Fire And Rain
New York’s A Lonely Lonely Town
dragging Ball And Chain
Summertime Blues and Porgy’s drowning…
Riders On The Storm
Layla kisses Judy Blue Eyes
Stairway To Heaven scorned
Woodstock and a Big Bear Scrambler…
Who’ll Stop The Rain
Don’t Think Twice this Hard Day’s Night
Eli’s Comin again
Hey Jude, Moondance is calling…
It’s Too Late says Ms. King
Yesterday’s Hound Dog barking Crazy
—the Purple Haze begins
(Rosemont College: June, 2022)
Present Of Mind
I didn’t forget…
I don’t want to remember
What’s left on the table
where time had command
I didn’t forget…
I don’t want to engender
The past from the future
—the moment at hand
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
Tomorrow In The Wind
Hidden deep within the trees
a whispering tomorrow
Buried in their shadows
voices fall and take new breath
The midnight wind blows silent
carrying hope into the future
Words caught up and venture forth
to seed unspoken times
New spaces wait, the inkwells full
as prophets guard the entry
The mistral gales of seasons past
new zephyrs push away
Stanzas form, the future saved
as yesterday approaches
Saplings rising, breezes felt
—new forest closing in
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
Veritas Oritur
Millions of words
are brought to a boil
But only the few
—can rise with the truth
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
