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

Master Of It All

Should God destroy a mountain

  because you’re afraid of heights

 

Should the sun stay fixed forever

  to keep away the night

 

Should the birds all sing in unison

  drowning out the siren’s call

 

Should the questions all have answers

   —with you master of it all

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

 

With Grace Sent

I often walk a mile,

  to go just fifteen steps

 

I often write ten pages,

  for one line that dries and sets

 

I often talk a blue streak,

  listening for that special word

 

And often love beyond my heart

  —with grace sent from our Lord

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

     From ‘The Book Of Prayers’

Prisoners Of Time

In three thousand years of philosophical thought

 what in fact’s been changed

 

Has a sorrow been healed or steeple been built

 resulting from the game

 

The essence, the theory, the logic, the proof

 all couplets lacking rhyme

 

In the end all victims chained unto themselves

  —prisoners of time

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

 

 

Truth Revealed

Thought is meant to provide escape

 from what causes it to be

 

The soul released in contradiction

 its spirit running free

 

All questions posed and answers sought

 now kindling burned to ash

 

The dialectic self destroyed

 —with truth revealed at last

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)