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

Jaywalking

How can you teach Poetry,

or breathe for someone else

 

Sharing what your soul has freed,

deep within yourself

 

Can you cross a bridge for others,

its toll not yours to pay

 

Squeezing blood from wounds long healed

—transfusion’s masquerade

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Truth Or Lie

Must God stay beyond

understanding

 

His prophecy to conscript

and confuse

 

Are the Trinity and

Resurrection

 

Both miracles or only

a ruse

 

Building temples to

edification

 

Storing Icons that judge

and decry

 

Is the Bible fictitious

or sacred

 

Is Redemption the truth

—or a lie

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Sentenced Glory

Writing…

not the beginning of verse,

but the end

 

Grabbing life by the throat,

the birth of a thought

 —whose story begins

 

Captive together,

they walk word by word

toward the jury

 

Scars and accolades,

joy and strife

—in sentenced glory

 

(Ronald McDonald House: January, 2020)