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

Now Mine To Keep

My first breath every morning…

   a thank-you to the Lord

 

My heart beats then in tribute,

  single note in heaven’s chord

 

My last breath every evening…

  as I close my eyes to sleep

 

To thank him softly once again

  —his grace now mine to keep

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

    From ‘The Book Of Prayers’

All Time Is Now

Release the hasp

Pull back the mask

The key has turned

Your face to learn

 

Remove the lid

Reach down amid

What’s hidden deep

—as secrets sleep

 

Confront the lie

The souls new stye

Wash clean the pain

With loves refrain

 

Commit your faith

In God remake

The time is now

 —all time is now

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

     From ‘The Book Of Prayers’

It’s More

My strength

Is that I am

Fundamentally

Unscientific

Not subject to the

Dissection

Of consequence

Or category

And not at the

Mercy

Of the scholastics

And nihilists

Who spend their days

Trying to reprove

That the whole is equal

To the aggregation

Of its parts

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

 

 

 

Would I Trade The Words

Would I trade the words…

  would I trade for a song

 

Would I trade the words…

  for a life ever long

 

Would I trade the words…

  for a pulpit on high

 

Would I trade the words…

  for the moon and the sky

 

Would I trade the words…

  for immortality insured

 

Would I trade the words…

  for your love still unheard

 

Would I trade the words…

  for all fortune and fame

 

Would I trade the words

  —would my soul then remain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)