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Romancing The Serpent

Kurt Philip Behm

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Vowels come in colors
the rest black and white

They call to us orphaned
they call to us nameless
Our pens but a lifeline
that save with each write

To romance the serpent
to anger the saint
Each word symptomatic
our feelings acquaint

A bard or a preacher
their weapons the same
Whose caliber loaded
—to praise or defame

(Radnor Pennsylvania: June, 2022)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXB XXXB XCXC XDXD X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 395
Words 71
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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