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

Divinity Chosen

Do three dimensions,

preclude a fourth

 

Does pointing toward South,

prevent being North

 

Is now just the midpoint,

between future and past

 

Does the freedom to choose,

leave all nature aghast

 

Is one and one two,

if one is in doubt

 

Are the whole or its parts,

what this world is about

 

Are Creation and Physics,

at war with themselves

 

Is Divinity chosen

—willed unto one self

 

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: July, 2019)

 

 

 

 

In Lament Of The Cowboy

A scant twenty years,

grieved a century or more

 

Poetically perfect,

in spirit and lore

 

A man and his horse,

alone on the range

 

The cattle his instruments,

and music to play

 

Civil War veterans and blacks

from the South

 

Through dust and dark clouds,

snowy blizzards that mount

 

Together they battled,

in concert they fought

 

Each unto himself,

life’s harmony caught

 

The hardship and death,

to him worth the price

 

Pushing always ahead,

a stranger to fright

 

The only thing telling,

to be left at the end

 

Was the legend he gave us

  —and the message it sends

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)

Emotional Correctness

When I want to express anger,

I get madder than hell

 

When I want to give love,

how deep is my well

 

On those times that I covet,

how green I become

 

And when wrestling with hate,

the result zero-sum

 

When my face blushes red,

I wear it with pride

 

Excitement and fury,

then never to hide

 

These things at my core,

at your risk to defame

 

Like politics censored

—emotional correctness disclaimed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2019)