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Love's Reality—Unreal

Kurt Philip Behm

Your lies much more exciting,
than any truth you never told

Stolen moments of pure delight,
the future your cuckold

Touch betrays what your eyes still hide,
my dreams you come to steal

As your body moves with time divorced,
love’s reality—unreal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 18, 2019

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Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 279
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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