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The Search



The deeper we get into
the idea of what’s real,
the further away we become

Trying to put our formulas
into a box,
is folly zero sum

Like the horizon before you
that you see but can’t touch,
the truth forever disguised

Its costume to change
with every reason we claim
—only the search bringing meaning to the wise

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on April 23, 2019

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Scheme AXB XXB AXX XXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 368
Words 63
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 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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