It’s easy to criticize…
harder to know
The poison unleashing,
reflections aglow
Assumption to breed
where temerity hides
The lie in sheep’s clothing
—truth buried inside
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
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
Ode To Keats
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
let me count the ways
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
so near, so far away
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
one chance to cross the line
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
love is so defined
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
as time begins today
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
one word, so much to say
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty,
to reach inside oneself
Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty
—whose passion only felt
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
Unanswered Cries
Do you need to be born in Africa or Haiti
to be saved
What about the single mother in the ghettos
of Detroit
Will an actor or politician or philanthropist
deem you worthy
Of a rescue from a situation that as assuredly
kills
Cable TV asks for your money for the starving
third world
While lost souls in your shadow are homeless, crying
—in plain sight
(Norristown Pennsylvania: January, 2021)
Tres Dimensiva Tempus
Time passes through my watch,
as function follows form
Most sacred of mysteries
—the final sojourn
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
The Back Side
For fifty years I laid out the traps
that I find myself in
—as old age attacks
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
Dolorem
Sorrow…
penultimate killer
—handmaiden of death
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
The Final Crusade
Destiny knighted
—vanity scorned
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
Wellspring
Not distracted by fame or success,
the floodgates sprung open
—truth running clear
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
The Ends Of Infinity
Beyond permission
and the endowment tree
The wind blows constant,
it calls to me
Freedom is born
past entitlements whim
The ends of infinity
—knotting within
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
From Grandfather
Waiting for yesterday,
I was delivered the voice
Whose tongue universal,
beyond reason and choice
Waiting for yesterday,
my time had arrived
Death hunting itself
—my spirit alive
(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)
An Anthology Of Perception 