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

Defiled And Lost

I’ll create my own reality,

in spite of what you say

 

A distant voice you fear the most,

the hunter not the prey

 

You wish for something then hope it’s true,

and wait with fingers crossed

 

To dump the emptiness upon my soul

—your heart defiled and lost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

At Any Cost

Symptomatic folly,

the tail now wags the dog

 

Whose bark, it whimper’s drolly,

all teeth removed and gone

 

Reacting, never acting,

new victims every day

 

All courage has retracted

—the future in harms way

 

Jailed speech unto the warden,

mere words may not contend

 

Our patriotic burden,

its truth we must defend

 

With cowards grabbing power,

a swamp that we must cross

 

Lies from ivory towers

—to fell at any cost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

Reach Out With Your Spirit

You call it a particle

He calls it a wave

They call it energy

—I call it light

 

You’re locked in physics

He’s locked in quantum

They’re trapped in theory

—blocking all sight

 

Let go the dissection

Let go the mechanics

Let go the empirics

—your eyes then to see

 

Reach out for the music

Reach out for what’s timeless

Reach out with your spirit

—set yourself free

 

(Villanova University Monastery: June, 2019)

Its Only Cost

Here today and gone tomorrow,

the worm can quickly turn

 

A sun last set, all vision spent,

the sum of what you’ve learned

 

The baton is passed, your race has run,

the finish line now crossed

 

With memories firm and wishes free

—your soul its only cost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)

Only A Poet

Only A Poet…

  can change feelings into air,

  birthing new memory

 

Only A Poet…

  can transform night into day,

  lighting our spirits

 

Only A Poet…

  can define the indefinable,

  words meaning more than their letters allow

 

And only a Poet…

   can stab time in the heart,

   to bleed free and eternal

    —only a Poet

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)