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Ashes Bemired

Kurt Philip Behm

The Poet dilettante, pretty words,
 —not much else

Your world falls apart, head buried,
  darkness felt

Shangi-la’s luxury, your dreams
  can’t afford

 Rome’s pillars under siege, strong words
   must accord

Through hundreds of millenia what has been
  learned

“Freedom is won by blood when all cowardice
  spurned”

Unwilling to fight the enemies fire
  with fire

Your good intentions to burn
  —your ashes bemired

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 05, 2017

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX BX XC AC XD XD EE XB X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 450
Words 67
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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