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The Old Woman Says...

Kurt Philip Behm

“You’ve got more past than future,”
she said without a smile

“The hours lost will not rewind,
your pendulum beguiled

“You’ve got more past than future,”
the hag said one last time

“Your legacy a broken spring
—whose clock no longer chimes”

(Valley Forge Memorial Bell Tower: March, 2021)
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Scheme Ax xx Ax xx x
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 299
Words 51
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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