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

A Poet’s Eyes

Seeing — Unseeing

the words drift away

far into the current

of what’s left to say

 

Passing my cortex

and into the void

where blind recognition

awaits to destroy

 

Familiar or foreign

once stopped in their tracks

new meaning escapes

with no looking back

 

The Poet’s eyes squinting

as light filters out

transcendence recaptured

ascendance remounts

 

Through slivering darkness

a vision appears

and mocking the order

old images clear

 

Those words once discarded

reform juxtaposed

through eyes resurrected

— released from the flow

 

(Septa R5: July, 2024)