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If Not For The Poet

Kurt Philip Behm

Where have all the
  Poets gone

Where are all the
  songs unsung

Where does the mystery
  unravel sublime

Where does the majesty
  reach the Divine

Where does tomorrow
  turn into today

If not for the Poet,
  we've all lost our way

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 02, 2016

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX AX AX AX XB XB X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 260
Words 45
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 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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