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

First Light To Keep

The first cut sharp and burning red,

  don’t edit away its fire

 

Keep the wound both fresh and raw,

  never cauterize your ire

 

The horizon breaks just once each day,

  a new dawn—cold hearts aspire

 

Rays burning deep, first light to keep

   —old ashes to inspire

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

One More Tomorrow

You bought one more tomorrow,

   from my borrowed yesterdays

 

My voice to sing with Angels,

   your love the music plays

 

You bought one more tomorrow,

   as you cast the dark astray

 

Replacing grief and sorrow

   —with a torch that lights my way

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016) 

 From My ‘Book Of Prayers’

The Thing That Lasts

Can your intelligence

   wound your spirit

 

Can your mind

  entrap your soul

 

Can your hopes and wishes,

  logic kill

 

Can damnation

  be the toll

 

 Or

 

Can a promise

  wed tomorrow

 

Can the future

  slay the past

 

A lifetime spent,

  a moment earned

 

With love

  —the thing that lasts

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)