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My Soul Electric

Kurt Philip Behm

Each Poem wrought,
   another day of
  freedom bought

Each verse proclaimed,
  one more glorious
  night renamed

Each line unleashed,
  new light is shown
  old shadows hide

Each truth I speak,
  my soul electric,
  —words alive

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
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Scheme AXA BXB XXX XXX X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 259
Words 39
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 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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