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On Faith Alone

Kurt Philip Behm

While hidden deep from nature’s wrath,
waiting in disguise

Below the ground a season born,
its birthright undenied

As winter trees now bare their souls,
whose limbs reach out in pain

Tomorrow the most promised wish
—till spring comes back again

(The New Room: February, 2021)
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Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 271
Words 46
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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