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

Sighted Blind

My dog was hurt; he couldn’t hunt,

  and left me in the field

 

To wander into aimlessness,

 my prey as yet to yield

 

His nose was gone; the point was lost,

 the tracks turned right then wrong

 

My gun recocked but sighted blind

 —all certainty had gone

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

One Final Bill

Sleeping through forgiveness…

 I’m re-invoiced by the pain

 

The nightmare real, escape undone, 

 the reasons all to blame

 

Trapped within my memory,

 each image haunts and preys

 

Excuses gone as judgment reigns

 —one final bill to pay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Silence To Collide

“Playing tennis without a net,”

 perhaps Robert Frost was right

 

Free Verse serves with no return,

 day volleys into night

 

One long shot into the darkness,

 an open end divide

 

Its message fades, an echo dim

 —with silence to collide

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

No Longer Free

Bring your lover into your world,

 don’t hide inside of hers

 

   ‘A mistake too often made

       with respect to women’

 

Self inflicted homicide…

 men die of good intention

 

A modern age hormonal trap

 —loves truth no longer free

 

(Greensboro North Carolina: April, 2019)