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

Truth Flowing Free

Wrestling with time,

an illusion supreme

 

Its trinity empiric,

three masks to deceive

 

Past, future, and present,

our dreams undefined

 

Outside of their stricture,

new presence unrhymed

 

Rejecting convention,

short sighted and slight

 

Imprisoning our vision,

with capture and fright

 

In seizing this instant,

its moment sublime

 

All truth flowing freely

—unfrozen in time

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)

 

 

Prisoner Of Time

Does your past

inhibit the meaning

 

Does a smile work

 to cover your pain

 

Does today lie in wait

for tomorrow

 

Your messages cleft,

forever the same

 

Do you write before feelings

have woken

 

The letters pretty, in cursive

review

 

When your words leave the pulpit

unspoken

 

Do you retreat to the very

last pew

 

Taking refuge,

as twilight approaches

 

All windows shuttered,

any truth to mime

 

Those orphaned moments

 to hold you captive

 

And a victim

—the prisoner of time

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Polar Extremes

Explosion / Implosion,

caught in the din

 

Forces once pushing,

now pull from within

 

The physicist cries,

as the mockingbird calls

 

To see past tomorrow,

today in freefall

 

A binary motion

of polar extremes

 

All consciousness split

—dark hole of my dreams

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)