Writers write
everyone else
— just talks
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
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
Voices That Follow
Keeping
memories close
pushing
people away
I live in
the safety
of what’s held
at bay
Trading
the future
retreading
the past
Living
nostalgic
for what
cannot last
Each
invitation
each corner
unturned
Calls to me
distant
calls to me
spurned
But I keep
on running
retracing
old steps
As voices
still follow
in search
— of me yet
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
Blessings Unused
What is a color
obstructed
What is a sonnet
untold
What is the price
of reluctance
Tainted in silver
or gold
What is the weight
of your damming
What is a blessing
unused
What is the lifespan
of choices unmade
Measured in freedom
— recused
(The First Book Of Prayers: July, 2025)
Rebirthed In Light
Stuck to
myself
the glue starts
to lift
Exposing
my nature
a soul
frozen stiff
Letting
me go
the dermis
strips off
The sun
rushing in
melting
the frost
Open
to light
new Angels
take hold
Rebuilding
my past
the future
remolds
All dread in
the mirror
now turned to
the wall
My essence
unfrozen
and prescience
— rethawed
(The New Room: July, 2025)
Fantasia
Averting
his death
reborn
in a dream
Time
had been stopped
the Reaper
unseen
Escaping
the end
his fancy
came true
Beginning
and ending
unbroken
— anew
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
Second Chances
All that awaits
are the memories
All that’s left
still unclaimed
All that I treasure
lay buried inside
All in those choices
— unmade
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
The Rainbow Chase
Searching
for his palette
the painter
wanders on
Dreaming
of each color
to visualize
his song
Tubes of paint
lie scattered
unsqueezed
their caps remain
In attics
of blank canvasses
with images
— unframed
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
Locked Away
Walking across
a college campus
classes done till Fall
I hear those lessons
never taught
on winds that truth recalls
The questions that we
used to prize
now locked away in files
To favor dogma’s
jagged edge
— in deaf self-serving bile
(Villanova University: July, 2025)
The Other Woman
Trying to make some sense of it all
but ready to begin
my exit from this fated tryst
with baggage worn and thin
One last goodbye is all I leave
for you and you alone
who held me through the darkest nights
— my home away from home
(Villanova University: July, 2025)
Hades Train
There’s a place
in time
of no return
where you’re destined
for the end
A ride
straight down
with no reverse
to break
no longer bend
A final stop
on Hades
train
where devils
wait in line
With all
new couplets
in the flames
and nothing
— left to rhyme
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
An Anthology Of Perception 