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

Fear & Ignorance

Get through the dialectic

  before the day is late

 

Don’t wait for an invitation

  as they slowly shut the gate

 

The wolf now dressed in spun wool

  has broken from his cage

 

He hungers deep inside our fear

  with ignorance and rage

 

As traitors lurk in front of us

  to vanquish and to quell

 

All time has stopped, their curses screamed

  assassins pledged to hell

 

The moment to act is calling

  the odds both long and wide

 

This battle worth refighting

    for those before who thought and died

 

So if truth’s your greatest weapon

   wield it willingly and free

 

The enemy is upon us

  —and must leave on bended knee

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Loves Denial

When you split the beam and the splintered edge

 is all you’re left with

 

The only one you’ve outsmarted

 is yourself

 

A prisoner of your severed choice

 and schizophrenia

 

The victim of your hearts defeat

 —and loves denial

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

Magdalena

Magdalena,

 your beauty known

 

Magdalena,

 your wisdom shown

 

Magdalena,

 firm and steadfast

 

Magdalena,

 communed repast

 

Magdalena,

 so loved a man

 

Magdalena,

 his blood in hand

 

Magdalena,

 though history scolds

 

Magdalena,

 your heart withholds

 

Magdalena,

 much more than friend

 

Magdalena,

 —the truth contends

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)