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Now Open The Door



The light in the window,
the candle down the hall

The torch in the jungle,
all beacons that call

The voice in the distance,
the one just next door

The whisper screams loudest
when heard from afar

The light that once beckoned,
the one that still shines

The rays once connected,
new vision sublime

To see it and hear it,
to know it once more

The key’s in the lock
—now open the door

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2017)
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on October 12, 2017

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Scheme XA XA XB XX XX XX XB XB X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 423
Words 78
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

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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