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

The Mousetrap Revisited

Entrapping the magic,

philosophers moan

Theory after theory,

no meat on the bone

They label and mark,

their didactics retooled

Force feeding their ramble

to dilettante-fools

And when in the end

they are then proven wrong

They slink back to their hollows,

where the vanquished now throng

But a new tier of ‘masters’

has taken their place

To lecture and spiel

—and pontificate

(Baldwin School: March, 2021)

Blurring The Lines

If being and the world

are one and the same

Then thinking and thoughts

are together to name

With freedom and consciousness

semantically fused

All judgment and will

—symbiotically cued

(Baldwin School: March, 2021)

Toll-Free

Verse is but a vehicle

to where my words are bound

The cargo much more precious

than structure that surrounds

The driving force empowered,

hands firm upon the wheel

The road to ever open up

—with all I say and feel

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

Cross Currents

If we could touch time

or taste a new dream

Awareness exploding,

beyond the extreme

To see every fragrance

or hear every wile

Our senses emboldened

—as memory smiles

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

Hope’s Diamond

Not silver,

not platinum,

and surely not gold

A mind

eager to learn,

something else to behold

More treasured

in essence,

than riches untold

Where a Newton

or Einstein

—begin to unfold

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

The Link

Neurotechnology,

a gift or a bane

With thoughts simply neurons,

case structure our brains

Is humanity destined

to merely plug in

Will all beauty and truth

be a programmer’s whim

And what of our history

that starts to rewrite

Will all paradox suffer,

conversation contrite

From Plato to Sartre,

one thing is the same

The essence of man

—will a mystery remain

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)

In Poverty’s Name

How do you lay off a writer…

unemployment assured

In labored obscurity,

his fortune unscored

How do you invest in a future

that’s devalued today

When checks never balance

—and words will not pay

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Graves Of Our Fathers

The Black Hills are crying,

our Mother forsaken

Enemy boot prints

where moccasins claim

To live just to die

in noble futility

All drums beat in silence

—He Sapa in shame

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019)

To Thine Self

One opinion that matters,

its judgment vouchsafe

Where mountains have melted,

new rivers await

The merit for others,

but truth undenied

Beyond feeling and vision

—exists only I

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Day Turns To Night

A new century waits as the minutes

progress

into hours of vestibular begotten memory

My thoughts being counted although I

resist,

my feelings in service to what’s left behind

The sun and the moon trade in bartered

romance,

each jilting the other as day turns to night

Another year is recorded in the serpentine

past,

what’s seen a mirage—what’s measured retained

(The New Room: March, 2021)