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

The Burning Bridge

When faith is abandoned

we live on old dreams

In time captured wastelands

barren demeaned

Believing the tattler

and spinner of lies

Desperation is sainted

epistles decry

 

“Music plays in keys of pain

shouting from below

Missals singed in pagan fire

ashes still aglow

Caught out on a bridge alone

burning from both ends

Martyred in our heresy

— darkness to befriend”

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

From The Coal Mine

From The Coal Mine …

 

Liars …

 early prophets

 of impending doom

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

 

The Moment Shared

 

We often forget

wrapped up

in our own drama

— that everyone feels the same

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Circle Game

 

The purpose of war

is peace

The guarantor of peace

— is war

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Crucibles

 

Moss

hides the message

Whose altar

ascends

In joy’s

adulation

The pilgrimage

— ends

 

(1st Book Of Prayers: February, 2024)

 

 

 

I Bequeath Thee …

 

Birthing a memory

 o’er future and past

To carry my words

inside others to last

 

Birthing a memory

o’er time and space

To those still unborn

— my welcoming grace

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Four Steps

 

Incinerate

all kindling that burns

Articulate

the knowledge that yearns

Reciprocate

before it’s your turn

Elucidate

— each lesson hard earned

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

 

True Fortune

 

Good health is loaned

— but never owned

 

(Deamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Conation

Conation

 

Have you tilted the axis

on a new tomorrow

Have you changed with intention

— the direction of time

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

 

 

 Round Peg — Square Holes

 

The poetry of mathematics

— oxymoronic at best

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 Robert The Bruce

 

War is won

before the first battle fought

Willful intention

the enemy caught

 

Decision a crossbow

empowered by choice

The spirit retracting

— a conquering voice

 

(Stonehenge: March, 1987)

 

 

Apate

 

Captive of emotion

— prisoner of deceit

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Crossing Over

 

Attending his own funeral

no tears were exchanged

No grieving or mourning

— but memory remained

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

In Memoriam

 

People won’t remember you

because of your money

The human spirit bereft

by your dollars in vain

History won’t revere you

because of your tokens

Your legacy built upon

— prescience ordained

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Blood Trail

 

Don’t get sucked into choosing

both sides are bad

The Left or the Right

their massages sad

 

The Right tries to promise

what Leftist’s sublate

Two sides to a trap

— where lies are the bait

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

“What Simple Folk Do …”

 

Only inside ordinary things

is the extraordinary released

Baptized new day after day

eternity unleashed

 

Only by embracing what’s common amongst us

as Arthur knew so well

Can we move on to where it starts

beyond heaven — beyond hell

 

(Memories Of Camelot: February, 2024)

 

 

Making Our Bed

 

The silence of death

lives in the future

Sleeping with memories

— of yesterday’s past

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

Rays Of Light

Rays Of Light

 

Information contextual

never absolute

Naked in isolation

relative and moot

 

Inspiration celestial

gifted from the throne

Sending rays to light the dark

— truth to stand alone

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

Science

 

One step

forward

two steps back

 

Look around

you

see the facts

 

Sky scraped

cities

health care gods

 

Obese

on drugs

gender fog

 

Ghetto

masters

children stoned

 

War

a plaything

religion owned

 

Information

but a mask

to hide us from the truth

 

DNA

and quantum theory

— kills the Golden Goose

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Dreamsleep

 

No words into boxes

all Muses set free

Not quatrain or sonnet

or limerick for me

The feeling’s unleashing

the verse as decreed

Whose words birth inside me

— unspoken in dreams

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

Feelings

 

They come to

me vacant

 

No plans

to deceive

 

In silence

they wait

 

My words

— to conceive

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mors Spiritualis

Mors Spiritualis

 

Spiritual pornography

who is to blame

The prophets the poets

lascivious shame

 

With prurient verses

stark naked their prose

Defaming what’s virgin

their lust to impose

 

And when they have finished

exposing their ruse

They choke on its meaning

and die self-abused

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Divinity’s Pew

 

The truth stands in contrast

to only itself

Once mentioned eternal

when thought and then felt

It lives in the ether

past fortune or fame

Conscripted by conscience

no praise and no blame

The truth beyond reason

beyond lies or consent

The lucky among us

to follow its scent

Its trail leads to faith

divinity’s pew

Transforming the moment

— you first say I do

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Freezing The Moment

 

Are you the

lead actor

within your own myth

 

The script

ever changing

the past in its crypt

 

Can you freeze

the moment

with only one word

 

The Angel’s

applauding

— the devil unheard

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Salt Lick

 

Politicians

endow a sword

to the few

— to command the many

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

Modern Education

 

Learning more

about less and less

Feeling torn

in great duress

Faith attacked

 we hide from myths

Real love scorned

— ourselves we kiss

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

Marx In Hell

 

Political salvation

the god of failure

Beatifying the collective

— on the devil’s throne

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

Gnostic Dreams

 

The brighter the glare

we discover around us

The darker the light

stays hidden within

Secular salvation

a digital failure

God’s imminent nature

— indistinguishable from ours

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

‘Sage To The Court Jester …’

 

God’s truth — Man’s truth

bridging the difference

trust in the Muse

 

(Rosemont College: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Center Front

Living Well — Dying Well

precepts of destiny

bookends of fate

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

+  — 

 

Patience and time

Courage or fear

Pleasure then pain

Smiles and tears

 

Future and past

Joy or remorse

Vision when blind

Blessing or curse

 

Borrow or steal

Praise and then blame

Life unto death

Loss or a gain

 

Reason and anger

Random or fate

Plussing the minus

— open the gate

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

 

Body & Soul

 

Disease …

robs you

of your health

 

Dementia …

robs you

 of yourself

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)

 

 

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