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 Island & The Cloud

Between freedom and Instagram

 there is an island,

 where men go to be alone

 

An island of words

 in arresting colors,

 with meaning indicted—but seldom heard

 

Between Facebook and tomorrow

 a cloud sits waiting,

 where men go to find themselves

 

An Angel calling role

 in blind acceptance,

 all names rejected—the letters whole

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)

One Of Us

“We appreciate that cousin”

 said the Rebel to the Yank

 

As all glory left the battlefield

 where rows of corpses stank

 

“We appreciate that cousin”

  as the bullets set to fly

 

“But our family’s set upon itself

   —and one of us must die”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)

 

Where Others Have Turned

Is anyone ever a total fraud

  or totally sincere

 

Is anyone committed beyond mere space

  to a notion fond and dear

 

Is anyone ever one hundred percent

  with subtraction the rule of the day

 

Is anyone better than what they believe

  or worse than a mother can pray

 

Is anyone ever truly in charge

  of that moment that slips through the hand

 

Is anyone willing to dance beyond hope

  to a melody lost by the band

 

Is anyone chosen from those who are not

  or entitled to what can’t be earned

 

Is anyone welcomed straight into the light

   —on a path where all others have turned

 

(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)

Free And Atoned

The truth came flying out of the mirror,

  its reflection veracious and new

 

And left without warning, my emptiness torn,

  heading back to a place out of view

 

Driving into my eyes an image so clear,

  its talon’s spread open and honed

 

But on wings of silver, it returned fulfilled,

  my spirit soaring—free and atoned

 

(Southwest Flight Las Vegas-Philadelphia: January 27, 2016)