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

My Indulgent Refrain

The better the words

  formed

 

The meaner they

  became

 

       ‘free and alive

       and stirred from the bottom

 

      ‘hidden and denied

       in moments of pain’

 

Taking on new life

  they glare and they scowl

 

Staring back from the mirror

  —my indulgent refrain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

The Final Harvest

Those drunken nights and barroom fights

 now seed my fallowed ground

 

Where women spurned and lovers churned

 rule memory’s lost and found

 

Those wasted days and sleepless years

 like wine have aged within

 

Fermenting each unwritten page

  —reharvesting my sins

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

Is Your Aria Born Alone

Is it first the

Music

And then the

Words

Or do the

Words

Come first?

Elton John says it

Works

Either way

Bob Dylan’s

Words create

The meaning

That Ray Charles

And

Jimi Hendrix

Explode

Is all timing

Real

Or just

Imagined?

Is the structure

True or

False?

Do your words

Beget the

Melody

Or is your

Aria

 —born alone?

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)