A Melody Unsung

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Can you be distracted by the critic

or the public acclaim

 

Can you see through the fire

and renew all that’s burned

 

Can you look past the signposts

and those messages fixed

 

Can your heart stay undamaged

as the world tempts your soul

 

Can you run through loud voices

with yours still unspoken

 

Can you make it to tomorrow

without leaving today

 

Can you give love to those hateful

with vengeance recalled

 

Can you carry your grandfather’s words

into the land of the unborn

 

Can you hang up your spear

inside the enemy camp

 

Can you live to see the beginning

and the end die at last

 

Can your voice remain pure

neither bartered nor loaned

 

Can you listen through the

smoke

   —for a melody unsung

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

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Published by 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

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