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An Angel Sings

Kurt Philip Behm

Not connected
end to end
each prayer
stands alone

The beginning, middle,
end of each
unleashed, untethered,
homage shown

But when
they find each other
in a prescience
most sublime

An Angel sings
their wedding vows
with Heaven’s light
—to shine

(The 1st Book Of Prayers: September, 2023)
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Scheme AXBC XXAC XBXX XXXX B
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 294
Words 54
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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