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

Destiny Wed

In the Song Of The Muses,

  the Prince heard his Queen

 

Now locked in a convent,

  her beauty unseen

 

The tower lay distant,

  its ramparts on guard

 

Just one point of entry

  a hero’s reward

 

The mist in the valley

  its prison to free

 

Through clouds in the distance

  her pleadings, her screams

 

Two miles before him

   all love waits abed 

 

The future unfolding

  —his destiny wed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

That Beckoning Star

The Siren of fate

 lures you onto the rocks

 

Her beauty enticing

 while masking what’s not

 

A shipwreck of horrors

 that’s not what it seems

 

Luring you onward

 away from your dreams

 

A phantom discovery

 a fool’s masquerade

 

Its promising temptress

  an ill mannered charade

 

And once you discover

 your mortality is near

 

You flail and you panic

 while sinking in fear

 

The distance you’ve traveled

 at a liars demand

 

Weighs heavy as you manage

 one last spoken command

 

Shouting out to your comrades

  to stay where they are

 

Searching only within

 —for that beckoning star

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

The Light

I stare back from the last horizon,

 and scientists look bemused

 

Theologians prey among themselves,

 mystics stay confused

 

Once through the light Divining

 no beginnings or their ends

 

All truth transcending within itself

 —as time and space descend

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)