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Martyrs & Clowns

Kurt Philip Behm

What is forgotten
if time is a bluff

What is forsaken
if memory can rust

Where is the drama
the stage ill disposed

Where is tomorrow
today undisclosed

When were you certain
that certain you’re not

When did the hands
stop advancing your clock

How many seasons
must come and then go

How many reasons
to plant and not sow

Why search for glory
in legends unfound

Why only answered
—by martyrs and clowns

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AX AB XC DC AX XX ED EX XB XX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 440
Words 87
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 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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