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The Last Rose

Kurt Philip Behm

Ichor running through her veins
All blood is pushed aside
Her eyelids shut, her heart on ice
My fate she would decide

Wilted romance, rotting vines
Garden left in thorns
A lonely rose from last years bloom
Bent over in her scorn

New seeds unplanted, sterile lay
Her cold impounds the soil
To blow within a fallow lust
Abandoned there to toil

With one more look, beyond all hope
My vision love impaired
Her verdict guilty, poison laid
—in blindness I despair

(Longwood Gardens: February, 2022)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 13, 2022

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Scheme XAXA XXXX XBXB XXXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 499
Words 90
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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