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Tail Of The Dragon

Kurt Philip Behm

“Poke the bear
you get the claws
Chase the shark
you get the jaws”

With each lie
foundations crack
A friend once hurt
your soul left wracked

Timeless rules
 do still apply
Where you can run
but never hide

 Truth outdates
the oldest Sage
With us its servant
— time its slave

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 12, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BXXX XBXX AXXX X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 311
Words 60
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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2 Comments
  • kazbrekker
    kazbrekker
    Poke the bear, you get the claws
    Chase the shark, you get the jaws just goes hard for no reason
    LikeReply5 months ago
  • JokerGem
    JokerGem
    Great poem carrying truth itself - and the envoi really reverberates.
    I’m partial to this one and you have so many more good ones to mine.
    Still planning to read another of your short stories as well!
    ~Jeffrey => 
    LikeReply5 months ago
    • KurtPhilipBehm
      KurtPhilipBehm
      Thanks, that's very kind of you.

      Kurt
      LikeReply5 months ago

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