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Raison D' Etre

Kurt Philip Behm

What purpose Poetry,
if not to transcend

The mundane, the broken,
those roads with no end

With every feeling
new words are reborn

To speak to Creation
—and live readorned

(The New Room: January, 2021)
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Scheme AB CB XX CB A
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 194
Words 35
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 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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