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Dreams Steal Away

Kurt Philip Behm

Everything tended
to darken around her
The light from the sun
all feelings deferred

Her winter foreboding
sucks air from the room
Constant denials
predictions of doom

Pawning tomorrow
the price of today
Happiness bartered
her dreams steal away

Everything tended
to darken around her
Shadows descending
—the future interred

(The New Room: July, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 27, 2023

Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on July 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABxc dexe xfcf ABdc x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 357
Words 61
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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  • luisestable1
    luisestable1
    What or who is responsible for her dreams being stolen away is the question to ask here. Not much in this poem but that her dreams are being stealing away. But who or what is the culprit? And why is this so? 
    LikeReply9 months ago
    • KurtPhilipBehm
      KurtPhilipBehm
      You don't think much better than you write.
      LikeReply 19 months ago

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