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

Sound Bites: 8-6-2024

Verbal Foundlings

 

Free or blank

tomato

tomatto

 

Without rhyme’s link

there’s no

bravado

 

The verse left orphaned

all kinship

spurned

 

As unconnected

words crash

— and burn

 

(The New Room: July, 2024)

 

 

Death Grip

 

The tighter

we hold on

The faster

— it slips away

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

 

 

Now Is Now

 

Freedom in the moment

the past is the past

Throwing off chains

— tomorrow recast

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

 

 

Reaching Back

 

Closer in the distance

than what endears my touch

I focus on your memory

— reclaimed in fated lust

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

 

 

Destiny’s Mime

He wanted to be

around clowns

but never wanted

to be happy

He wanted to write

 great melodies

never wanting

to sing

He wanted to stand

on the mountaintop

but never wanted

to fly

He wanted to read

every book

never wanting

to speak

 

He walked in

the twilight

of tragedy’s

sunset

He loved several

women

only after

they were gone

He called to

his dog

who was stuffed

in the parlor

He answered

every question

that couldn’t

— be asked

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Reinventing Time

Knowledge of the future

memories of the past

Caught within a final vacuum

dissipating fast

 

Wanton disbelieving

 eyes are liars still

Perception changed then rearranged

sensation thrice distilled

 

The philosophy of physics

 logicians burn and melt

Time but smirks as gravity flirts

 judgment prior dealt

 

Memories of the future

knowledge of the past

Once you slow the ebb and flow

— the moment is recast

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)