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One By One

kurt philip behm

In youth
the words were
loaned to me
from others
as their source

Till that day
one refused
to leave
and camped
on my front porch

It said ...
“I have
a lot of friends
no need
to be
alone”

And one
by one
they climbed
my steps
to stay
— and call me home

(The New Room: August, 2024)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 09, 2024

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Scheme XXAXX BXXXX XXXXAX CCXXBX X
Characters 291
Words 66
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 6, 6, 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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