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

Palette Free

Musical and painted phrases,

dance around my memory

 

Reds and Blues and vivid Gold’s,

rush across my bridge of dreams

 

Colors streak into the sky,

their song a magic portrait

 

Clouds chanting in vibrant hues

—as the light sings palette free

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017) On-Line 3/17/2017

 

 

Our Future Imperiled

The Genie is now out of the bottle,

and referred to as ‘The Net’

 

Where hackers are countries unto themselves,

empowered worldwide—great threats

 

Able to intrude and disrupt at will,

weaving a new kind of hell

 

With privacy raped and freedom attacked

—barraged, our future imperiled

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)

My Last Etesian

Forty years a Poet,

sixty years a man

 

Calling to me distant,

my last Etesian

 

Time at best deceptive,

a trinity of masks

 

Present truth accepted,

the one not first or last

 

Drums now beating softly,

their rhythm stills my heart

 

My spirit free to chase the wind

—this world I now depart

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)