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

The Jester Laughs

The ‘Deceivers Of Time

 Masquerade Ball’

 

Invitees file past

 

Yesterday in drag,

 Tomorrow disguised

 

Today—the Present’s mask

 

Memories hide

 in the shadows of hope

 

All wishes dancing fast

 

Until the Jester laughs

 as the final waltz ends

 

Deception to the last

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

The 4th Dimension

Can consciousness be compressed

 like a distant Black Hole

 

Into a photon and travel away

 

Coursing into the darkness

 at the speed of light

 

Reality curving and swaying

 

With entropy chasing

 and time not around

 

Each Dwarf Star awaiting its fall

 

The one last dimension, thought lost

 and now found

 

A new portal—unlocked to enthrall

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Square By Square

If life is a giant crossword puzzle,

 how many blank spaces do you have

 

How many words have come together,

 how many crossroads in your path

 

Each grid connects with meaning,

 what row by row unfolds

 

The story then, the story now

 —that square by square is told

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Truth Bleeding Free

Complex messages

 need a simple structure

 

Otherwise,

 a reader is lost

 

The shorter the word,

 the greater the meaning

 

Its judgment by value,

 never by cost

 

   ‘The straighter the blade,

      the sharper the edge

 

   ‘The sharper the edge,

      the deeper the cut

 

   ‘The deeper the cut,

      the more fatal the wound

 

   ‘Victory certain

      —the truth bleeding free’

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

 

Children Of The Damned

The ethics of duplicity,

 the killing on trial

 

One law for the criminal,

 one law for the child

 

The electric chair savage,

 womb murder refined

 

Academia, the father and mother

 of crime

 

To lie when convenient,

 truth’s babies to cry

 

An Einstein, a Lister, a Shakespeare,

 denied

 

Through dark inhumanity,

 their spirits to roam

 

Living deep in our consciousness

 —our souls theirs to own

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)