Jaded And Hoping

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The signpost a warning

  a resting black swan

 

Its flight to perdition

  last call from beyond

 

With roses ungifted,

  their thorns bury deep

 

Last moon a reminder

  a reckoning steep

 

The doctor’s watch broken

  your time shorter still

 

His prognosis a token

  beyond suture or pill

 

He asks if you’re ready,

  you say that you’re not

 

You ask if it matters…

  the main lesson untaught

 

And into the night

  you try once again

 

To find deeper meaning

  to reach beyond blame

 

But those last final minutes

  only serve to remind

 

What the jaded and hoping

   —are never to find

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)

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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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