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

First & Last

Forty years of turmoil…

the top of the heap

The head of the table,

but nothing has changed

Consensus of endorsement,

accolades of exhaustion

Whose tracks have long faded

—regret in the wind

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Truth In Default

All the young Jews,

all the young Christians,

all the young Muslims,

debt to confuse

Abraham crying,

prophesy fading,

hellish debentures

—Heaven to lose

(The New Room: July, 2021)

Truth In Default

Pietism Fatale

Jello mold converts…

frozen believers

Trapped in plain sight,

their freedom to lose

Set in the form,

immobile and suspect

Hope locked in stillness

—unable to move

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

White Dwarf

Doing more with less,

I cut out the middle

Doing more with less,

all life from within

Doing more with less,

I qualified nothing

Doing more with less

—Nirvana begins

(The New Room: July, 2021)

Et Tu

Contagion of anxiety,

a blanketing wind

Deafening all

with the force of its emptiness

Reclaiming the silence

—in betrayals of fear

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Shallow Grave

Blanketing the curse

of separation

Distance covers memory

—to sleep inside the pain

(Dramsleep: July, 2021)

Telltale Signs

Spacetime but emergent,

the string on nature’s kite

Reeling in a looming giant

—beyond both day and night

(Amtrak R5: July, 2021)

‘First & Last’

The end, the beginning,

nearer than far

The middle a wasteland

—to banish and tar

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Into The Mist

His shadow moved like smoke,

released from the fire

Fading in the night air

—never to return

(Searching For Crazy Horse II: July, 2021)