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

Unquestioned

Can imagination be taught,

or intuition defined

 

Can wishes be repackaged

as hope

 

Can children rekindle

a dream never fired

 

Can the past and future

reverse

 

Can what is and what isn’t,

forever be

 

Can a savior fall victim

to faith

 

Can tomorrow choose the past

over today

 

Can the reasoned excuse

die from intent

 

Can the moment once noted,

forever last

 

Can there be language

with vision denied

 

Can the wisdom of sages,

in playpens be found

 

Can the answers unquestion

—themselves

 

(University Of Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

Laying The Track

Are consciousness and memory linked,

if so to what degree

 

Do thoughts control what knowledge seeks,

does reflection hold the key

 

Remembering back through sense of self,

trying to define

 

If what is past now lays the track

—that underwrites our mind

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

A Lion Chases

Is consciousness emergent,

or de facto zero sum

 

Is what we know about ourselves,

a walk or more a run

 

A lion knows to chase a deer,

but not the reason why

 

The truth inherent in abstraction,

lost upon the fly

 

As man continues onward,

his psyche then will grow

 

Until surpassing all he seeks

—and all existence shown

 

(Villanova University: January, 2020)

 

 

 

Truth Turning Black

To pierce through the surface,

none sharper than words

 

A vowel like a razor,

to shave undeterred

 

Each letter a saber,

that strikes to the heart

 

All phrases an arrow,

your will to impart

 

Once spoken, each edge

is eternally honed

 

To cut through deception,

and carve into bone

 

The blood trail that follows,

all sages can track

 

Incisive, unsutured

—the truth turning black

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2020)