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Never Yours To Lose

Kurt Philip Behm

Like eating your own cooking,
  do you favor what you write

Do the words digest completely,
 —the stove again to light

As you walk that final mile,
  in those shabby cobblers shoes

Will you then embrace at last,
  —what was never yours to lose

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 14, 2017

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Scheme XA BA XC XC B
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 280
Words 48
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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