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

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)

 

 

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

The Lost Baton

…when there’s no one left to protest

…when there’s no one left to blame

…when there’s no one left to target

…when there’s no one left to name

 

…when there’s no one left to barter

…when there’s no one left to pay

…when there’s no one left to reason

…when there’s no one left to pray

 

…when there’s no one left to matter

…when there’s no one left to care

…when there’s no one left believing

…when there’s no one left to share

 

…when no one’s left to pass it on

…when no one’s left unbled

…when no one’s left to sing the songs

—forgotten are the dead

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm