Shillingford Lent



Neither worth the breath
of one muted bard…

Nor worth the time
of a chance denial

(Dreamsleep: February, 2022)
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Submitted by sage48 on February 05, 2022

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Scheme XX XX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 114
Words 21
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 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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