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Fatherless And Alone

Kurt Philip Behm

With every cold defeat
of the human spirit

The answers move deeper
within the polar arc


Victim to its wanton roaming
and endless chill


Questions left to wander,
—fatherless and alone


(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2013)
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on July 03, 2017

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Scheme XX AX XX AX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 226
Words 35
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 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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