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

Beatific Denial

Better to be in Hell

for all eternity,

than in Heaven

—on borrowed time

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

To Each—His Own

I never chose to write like you,

it’s enough to write like me

My feelings live to shape each thought,

your passion foreign known

I need to use those gifts bequeathed,

while searching endlessly

And leave to you your native tongue

—and speak my words alone

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

The Coming Wind

Organizing each word unpenned,

I gave myself to rhyme

And offered up my humble skills

in thankfulness sublime

Each one a treasure unto me,

with silence on the run

Verses promised and drifting near

—of memories to come

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Answering The Call

Truth can’t exist

in the absence of courage

Words of appeasement

—freedom denied

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Vindicta

Buried in the shadows,

hiding at night

Valor pierced and left to bleed,

hemorrhaging with fright

Fangs exposed and deadly,

searing from within

Readying to pounce and strike

—vengeance to begin

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Birthright

To understand the problem,

look from deep within

where logic and the sciences

are both cut wafer thin

Our thinking trapped and handcuffed,

when seen by reason bound

those answers we were given born

—unquestioned and profound

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Father To The Man

I grew up

having never become an adult,

the years to now betray

My body infirm,

my vision impaired,

my hair has turned to gray

I grew old

while living within myself,

false promises to none

Retuning to boyhood

each night in my dreams,

my age still zero-sum

(The New Room: March, 2021)

X-Tiempo

Did you make the moment,

did the moment make you

Did you give truth a name

—time forever renewed

(Dreamsleep: March 2021)

‘Higher Love’

Transcending jazz,

folk and rock,

blues master’s stop and bow

Winwood standing

far above,

we ask not why—but how

(Watching The Master On AXS: March, 2021)

‘Pit Vipers’

To not appease the critics,

success within our grasp

The charlatans of written words,

venom of the asp

They bury deep inside their dens,

ordained iconoclasts

Passing judgment, casting blame

—on what they fear might last

(To T.R.’s ‘Man In The Arena’ March, 2021)