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

The Myth Of Fame

Fighting Tuesday’s boredom,

he decided to play a game

 

And because he’d never done it,

he decided to test his fame

 

He mouthed the most nonsensical words,

with imagery askant

 

Then wrote them down from right to left,

a backward forward rant

 

To see if then his audience,

could make sense of this ruse

 

He published in the New York Times,

for readers there to muse

 

To his surprise they cheered and raved,

and called his name out loud

 

And said that T.S. Eliot,

from his gravesite would be proud

 

They found deep meaning in every word,

each rooted as a farce

 

And saw an abstract Moby Dick,

within his dark discourse

 

With pen in hand he pushed away,

and leaned back in his chair

 

And scratched his head in wonderment

—at the myth his fame could bear

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)

Still To Run

Your page now short on substance,

yet colorful the rhyme

 

The words used in abundance,

where lesser might define

 

Intention slave to beauty,

all meaning zero sum

 

Pageantry lost in the wind

  —your blood left still to run

 

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)