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

Harlem To Cannes

Those living in Harlem

want to move to Midtown

 

The people in Midtown,

to the Upper West Side

 

The Upper West Side,

to the Long Island Shore

 

The Long Island Shore,

to Aspen or Vail

 

Aspen or Vail,

to the Champs Elysees

 

The Champs Elysees,

to the beaches in Cannes

 

People will search for where

life can begin

 

A place that remains distant

and far out of reach

 

An excuse to look outward

and not in themselves

 

Theirs souls left in turmoil

—their hearts not at rest

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)

Darkness To Light

It wells up inside me,

but words will not come

 

 I reach for them desperate,

the mood zero sum

 

My insides are shaking,

all peace is recalled

 

The rumblings foreboding,

complacency falls

 

My mind is locked down,

 my speech has gone mute

 

Like a great locomotive,

the first word breaking through

 

The dozens that follow

keep me pinned to my chair

 

As voices I know

start consuming the air

 

My brain is on fire,

 my will starts to melt

 

Time sacrificial,

 what’s heard and then felt

 

My pen has unfrozen,

in timeless delight

 

Directing this journey

—from darkness to light

 

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: February, 2020)