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Lost In Refrain

Kurt Philip Behm

Do you have enough stories,
have you told enough tales

Is your life overflowing,
with a need to regale

Have the roses you’ve smelled,
lined your heart or your mind

Is the path that you’ve chosen,
ahead or behind

Is your life worth a novel,
or even a poem

Are the years all connected,
or scattered and broken

If you leave only money,
or fortune, or fame

The last chapter unwritten
—and lost in refrain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 12, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XA XB CB AX XC XX CX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 431
Words 79
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 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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