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The Last Encore

Kurt Philip Behm

Staring into
a crystal gaze
 The throng is burning
purple haze

Music blaring
notes on fire
Crescendo glaring
demon ire

Staring into
a crystal gaze
The faces foreign
 voices bade

In unison
their screams demand
Encored tribute
— to save the band

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)
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Scheme ABcb cdcd ABex efxf d
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 282
Words 51
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 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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