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Prisoner Of The Light

Kurt Philip Behm

Lay your feelings out there,
  put them on the line

Send your fear back down to hell
  forever to remind

Evil in submission
  darkness wrapped in fright

Its voice silenced with your words
 —prisoner of the light

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 31, 2018

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Scheme XX XX XA XA X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 242
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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