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

Time’s Sultan Of Doom

 If you live long enough

 you can outgrow everything

 even uncertainty and doubt

 

As the road fades behind you

 and memories compress

 giving you a final way out

 

Taking you into a magical land

 between two worlds where you

 float in-between

 

One where you struggled and questioned yourself

 and one made of wishes

 and dreams

 

All choices abandoned and willed to the past

 the either-or the most cryptic

 of tombs

 

As you travel within and beyond just yourself

 all past futures

  —time’s sultan of doom

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)

In My Heart Delights

I stand and stare as my children tick

 their message gifting time

 

The safe door open, movements alive

 their beats sound off in rhyme

 

All hands revolve to point the way

 and celebrate new life

 

While one calls out to adorn my wrist

  —and in my heart delights

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)

 ‘The Musings Of A Watch Collector’

The Present Looms

Time is speeding out of control

 as life is slowing down

 

The minutes of my memory

 lost hours going round

 

My eyelids close, the past on fire

 last vestige still to find

 

One image flashes bright and clear

 all darkness cast behind

 

The calendar in ruins

 this moment left in charge

 

The future marching backwards

 —the present looming large

 

(Burlington, North Carolina: April, 2018)

The Devil Left Crying

Like the hub of a wheel

 reality turns

 

Each spoke a religion

 a doctrine that churns

 

Christians and Buddhists

 spread out to the rim

 

Jews and then Muslims

 attached deep within

 

The wheel turns in circles

 as spokes never touch

 

Each message turns blindly

 to act as a crutch

 

Until craters dismantle

 ….the wheel breaking free

 

To sink in exclusion

 all truth to be seen

 

Spokes pile and mix

 lying dead on the ground

 

The devil left crying

  —salvation unbound

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)