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

Or

Could or couldn’t

Would or wouldn’t

Should or shouldn’t

Can’t or would not

 

Does or doesn’t

Was or wasn’t

Has or hasn’t

Can or cannot

 

Must or mustn’t

Have or haven’t

Are or aren’t

Is or is not

 

Did or didn’t

Had or hadn’t

Do or then don’t

 —you will or will not

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

To Rene’

I don’t care where I’m going

  I know where I am

 

I’m not worried about the future

  I’ve never been to the past

 

I’m not sad about what’s missing

  only joyful for what’s present

 

I am here and not there

  —and my words make it last

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

Nature’s Call

The winter wind was blowing

 through an autumn of despair

 

A reckoning was coming

 and now carried on the air

 

The winter wind was blowing

 as the leaves began to fall

 

Revealing what was waiting

  —buried deep in nature’s call

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)

Destiny Unseen

Everyone has to be somewhere

 the lucky get to choose

 

Fate can smile or fate can frown

 the tally win or lose

 

Everyone has to be somewhere

 unless they’re in-between

 

Places caught beyond now and then

  —with destiny unseen

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)

Further To Roam

You can no more teach poetry

   than a tiger to hunt

 

It must first be inside you

   from those things that you’ve done

 

You can no more teach poetry

   than an eagle unflown

 

If the words just won’t come

  —you’ve got further to roam

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)