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Disavowed

Kurt Philip Behm

Neither left wing nor right
conservative or liberal,
he goes about his day

Living outside the parameters
of deception,
hell in heavens way

While living as dead
he vanquishes time,
each moment present now

Defying your judgment
refusing to choose
—all limits disavowed

(Dreamsleep: August, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 22, 2019

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Scheme XXA XXA XXX XXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 284
Words 46
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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