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An Anthology Of Perception

'Exposing The Illusionary Concept Of Time'

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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

North Of Boston

Today

 I decided

not to rhyme

 

The words

in volleys

poorly formed

 

Predicates

outcast

 covers smashed

 

Their accents

bouncing

 meanings lost

 

Today

I decided

not to rhyme

 

Appeasing

some

beyond the fence

 

Connections

broken

  phrases served

 

Playing tennis

without

— a net

 

(The New Room: November, 2024)

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29 Falls

Reaching into the

public consciousness

the words were given free

 

Blowing fresh holes

through blind consensus

nothing there to see

 

Reaching into

the common anthem

selling out for fate

 

Lost in the current

of tomorrow’s maelstrom

— passing heaven’s gate

 

(The New Room: November, 2024)

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Never Letting Go

We couldn’t survive

each to the other

We couldn’t let go

to live

We couldn’t give

without retaking

We couldn’t express

what we felt

We couldn’t stay quiet

when being together

We couldn’t come back

from the past

We couldn’t forgive

what time had rescinded

We couldn’t remember

— to forget

 

(Woodstock: Summer, 1969)

 

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Last Call

He wandered to the rim

looking over and down

Lost in a memory

his fear as a shroud

As voices from faces

that he never saw

Called out from the darkness

— with time overdrawn

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024) 

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Blood Trail

Innocence a foreigner

if beautiful or dark

No one who can lead the way

— has purity of heart

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

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Tick, Tick, Tick …

Killing shared values

our lives on death row

Kinship aborted

— the world soon to blow

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

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The Wasteland

The pendulum swings wider

both right and then left

Those things that divide us

fomenting unrest

The wasteland between

what was once common ground

A minefield of mutual exclusion

— profound

 

(The New Room November, 2024)

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Last Choosing

That one final

  bullet

That one final

dagger

To use

on another

Or to use

— on ourselves

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

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Poetic Heraldry

“If thou wouldst 

be my critic

Thou must

— wear my soul”

 

(Woodland Avenue Philadelphia: May, 1973)

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Verba Cantus

Stealing from a thief

those phrases gone

Scales rebalance

 words in song

 

Once recaptured

then released

The chorus joyful

— the world at peace

 

(The New Room: September, 2024)

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