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Into The Night

Kurt Philip Behm

Into the forest
Out of the trees
Over the hill
Quixotic trapeze
Through the valley
Crossing the lake
Into the meadow
Time overtakes
A messenger calls
The cave now in sight
Daylight behind us,
—into the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July,2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 20, 2016

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Scheme XAXAXXXXXBXB X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 234
Words 41
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 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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