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

Just Because

Good taste

— wears no brand

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Half Truth

Necessary

but not

sufficient

Stated

but

unheard

Always wrong

but never

in doubt

Sworn

but forever

— unwed

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Calling Forth

Etching my name immortal

the words when left my pen

Take on a new perspective

beyond both me and them

Etching all time eternal

the future is renamed

Calling forth beyond true north

— my destiny reclaimed

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

A Tirade Lost

Tending anger’s

raging garden

seeds lie

burnt and dire

Each fiery breath

a vine ensnares

with thorns

of bloody ire

Tending anger’s

furrowed hate

with vehement

acclaim

A tirade lost

within the rows

of dark

— unending pain

(The New Room: December, 2024)

Expose’

Hiding from

the day

with night

growing short

The light

to expose

what darkness

— aborts

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Dark Funding

When you subsidize

my excess

You underwrite

my greed

Each payment made

my hunger craves

And gluttoned passion

— needs

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Spurning Mediocrity

Competition …

what keeps us alive

Sharpening our edges

fueling our drive

Setting new benchmarks

pushing the bar

Forever defining

— just who we are

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Coram Deo

Are you the CEO

of your passion

the chief of your desires

Are you the captain

of your intention

the master of what inspires

Are you the owner

of your discovery

the clearing in the fog

Are you the light

of your reflection

— a servant before God

(The New Room: December, 2024)

Analgesia

As hedonists dally
to never explain
The greatest pleasure
— the absence of pain

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Bereft & Begone

Like squeezing and gripping

a handful of sand

Your love dropped through

the crevices unrhymed

Defining our feelings

with each orphaned word

Lost in the random

—abandon of time

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)