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To Confess And Reveal

Kurt Philip Behm

Words rushed through my head
clearing cobwebs away

All letters on edge
cutting doors as they played

From one room to the other,
they matched up and danced

And from basement to attic,
my mind was enhanced

Without reason, beyond memory,
they sharpened my feel

Until alone they then left me
—to confess and reveal

(Train-Penn Station NYC: March, 2015)
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on November 26, 2018

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Scheme XX XX XA XA BC BC X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 350
Words 60
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 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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