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Baptizing The Vacuum

Kurt Philp Behm

What is the substance
of nothingness

With nothingness the substance
of thought

Where is the truth
in indifference

Apathetically frozen
when taught

How then to measure
reluctance

With action the villain
of time

Seeking to baptize
the vacuum

Where consonants hide
—from the rhyme

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2023)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 05, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AX AB XA CB XA CD XX XD X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 328
Words 56
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
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