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Pateras Potamos

Kurt Philip Behm

Come to me Achelous
river without tears
Carry me distant
away from my fears

Direction is onward
Olympus bestows
Hermes in orbit
directing the flow

At home in your waters
whose currents surpass
Defining my history
from first to the last

Your torrent unbridled
the eye of the storm
I drift in your motion
—alive and reborn

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on October 07, 2022

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Scheme AAXA XAXX AAXX XXXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 356
Words 64
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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