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Hearts On The Run

Kurt Philip Behm

The power of poetry
to drive away love
A surrogate impostor
indentured above
Whether spoken or written
its message the same
All feelings imprisoned
in words that explain

When waxing poetic
the birds and the trees
Laughing not with you
but at you it seems
Intention enamored
from rhyme to blank verse
With hearts on the run
—and heaven to curse

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: May, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 02, 2023

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Scheme XAXABXXX XXXXXCBC X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 384
Words 68
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 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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  • prayersfor
    prayersfor
    we must (real) be /come, what the words intend - when inspired, helpful, or true
    like reading the Bible, it's all just theology a curse to the mind if the heart is left out/

    off - like the rind, when eating all blind -- water and melon,

    just like the others (as is the habit) -- do

    (this is only one point of view/ not always true)     
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