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

First Love

I loved you with a first love

  no second love would ever replace

 

I loved you with a first love

  that when lost was forever to ache

 

I loved you with a first love

  when my words were fresh given and new

 

I loved you with a first love

 —my heart captive with feelings so true

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2016)

Dreams Neatly Stacked

Never giving it all

Never losing it all

False wisdom

From the voices of drought

 

Emptying my heart

With a soul left in parts

All promises

Vain wishes in doubt

 

But giving it all

New rain started to fall

My eyes opening up

From inside

 

The clouds pulling back

Showing dreams neatly stacked

Where my will and my spirit

  —reside

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2016)

At What Point

At what point…

 does the fiction you’ve created become true

 

At what point…

 do old lies make more sense than new truths

 

At what point…

 do prevarication and veracity reframe

 

At what point…

 do they come together—their message the same

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

Stars & Stripes

Out of great struggle

  comes even greater opportunity

 

Each threat being glue

  and a tie that binds

 

With noble purpose

  we define our highest calling

 

Freedom in our blood

  —by our will refined

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

  ‘To America, On The 4th Of July’