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

In Spite Of Ourselves

What if God is the

 Universe

 

Not something separate

 and distinct

 

But the Universe

 itself

 

Eliminating the dual

 notions

 

Of Creation and

  Intelligent Design

 

Insuring our divinity

 as part of the whole

 

Insuring our divinity

 —in spite of ourselves

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Descartes, Be Damned

From life’s final dissertation,

 logic must be barred

 

A blueprint of our limitations,

 its legions burned and scarred

 

In that last final closing moment,

 transcendence kindled bright

 

The strictures of its failed excuse

  —left victim to the night

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

Damning Refrain

The deeper the words

  formed

 

The meaner they

  became

 

       ‘now free and alive

         and stirred from the bottom

 

      ‘once buried and denied

        in moments of pain’

 

Taking on new life,

  they glare and they scowl

 

Staring back from the mirror

  —a damning refrain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)