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

A Spirit Pure

It hurt so much it robbed her soul,

and drove her cross the line

 

The men she knew, the men she loved,

the pain thought once sublime

 

The last man in, the last man out,

now done with men for good

 

Her passion torn, her body raped,

a woman she now took

 

She lived her life on foreign lands,

with mirrors that denounce

 

She washed the staining from her hands,

returning count for count

 

And when she died the parson said,

upon this somber day

 

“A spirit pure but torn in half

—the best part cast away”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)

 

 

As She’s Leaving

Don’t you love her as she’s leaving,

her memory still in place

 

The times she lied, the times you cried,

vacant and displaced

 

Don’t you love her as she’s leaving,

the pain her mission bell

 

Tolling far into the distance

beyond heaven—beyond hell

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

‘Thanks Jim’