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

Lost In Dismay

Do you spend twenty percent of your time

  acquiring your beliefs

 

And eighty percent of your time

   in defense

 

Do you have blinders on

  about what you conceive

 

In fear of the critics

  pretense

 

Are your views narrow focused

  and then watered down

 

As the truth disavowed

  slips away

 

Is your memory tainted

  in times left to waste

 

As your efforts

  —retreat in dismay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

The Mountainous Roar

If consciousness were to exist

 beyond the self

 

What opinions

 might it change

 

Can something exist outside

 its space

 

Can something be something

 it’s not

 

Is time the new slave

 to the master it birthed

 

Can the end

 be started again

 

Can the future or past

 exist on their own

 

Can the present

 be something that’s both

 

Can you believe what the facts

 will disprove or disclaim

 

With reflection beyond logic

 and guilt

 

Can you teach what you’ve learned

 in spite of yourself

 

Can your silence

   —tame the mountainous roar

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)