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To See, Hear, Feel, And Love

Kurt Philip Behm

Do you need to open your eyes
   to see?

Do you need to have the words spoken
   to hear?

Do you need to pierce beneath the skin
   to feel?

Do you need to first understand
  —to love?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
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Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 216
Words 41
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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