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

Three Faces Of I

I chased my selves

down the hallway tonight,

and called them both by name

 

They stopped and wavered

before looking away,

turning their backs again

 

Subliminal

gravity captured the space,

attraction thrice denied

 

The fusion once splintered

reuniting itself,

me, myself—and I

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)

A New Stone

Standing alone

on the altar’s first step,

apprenticeship dethroned

 

Indentured anew,

my eyes turn inward,

disarmed, but not disowned

 

A quarter to forever

in the distance ahead,

blank meadows still to quote

 

The hour glass waiting

upon no man,

to deliver its last joke

 

Seeds scatter freely,

 implanted anew,

words rising where vision bled

 

Each one a new stone

in eternity’s trail

—the unborn baby fed

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)