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

Looking Back — Moving On

Are you lost inside nostalgia,

blinded by its call

Self convinced the past is king,

old romance to enthrall

The facts proclaim much different,

in science and the arts

Awareness of what we’ve become,

the most illusive part

What you bought for fifteen dollars,

that CD with thirteen songs

Now can buy the music world,

Ipod’s carry on

The doctor’s diagnosis,

beyond mere life or death

An MRI can then confirm,

and protons will arrest

The scope of human nature,

to hold on and not let go

Ties us to a bill we’ve paid

—resent from long ago

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

Time’s Harvest

In the land of my once fallow youth,

old phrases bury deep

Where seeds of time regrow the rhyme

—their crop my soul to keep

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

Uncertainties Throne

The power of induction,

truth insecure

Foundations and principles,

whispered demure

We take that next leap

from uncertainties throne

To leverage our doubts

—from what’s presently known

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

Sight Incensed

The color of trouble

—the smell of goodbye

(Dreamsleep: December, 2019)

Crashing The Gate

We searched through the desert

for a welcoming sign

But the truth was a grave marker

—our fate so inclined

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

Masks On Display

Can talking about things,

ever make them real

To describe and define,

what we then try to feel

A mirage of old theories,

their masks on display

Do ideas have substance

—beyond what we say

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

The Last Laugh

Outside the backdrop of the given world,

the emptiness fled

And deep in the recesses of what’s never to be,

contradiction fed

Far beyond meaning and stated intent,

all reasons turned to dust

With nothing to prove and less to embrace

—the laugh at last on us

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

Until Gone

Old memory written,

new words to a song

Forgotten, remembered

—sung once and then gone

(Dreamsleep: December, 2019)

Washed & Scrubbed

Intellectual hygiene…

the Poet declines

That dull antiseptic,

that deadens your mind

Once washed and then scrubbed,

the truth a charade

Academic consensus

—the Muse in her grave

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

Couplets Of Rhyme

An agreed upon history…

fables abound

To share in the memories,

what’s lost and then found

Our story rechristened,

linked moments in time

New legacy written

—in couplets of rhyme

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)