Analysis of Our Spiritual Vacuum



Is God a deficiency in
  our character or makeup

Do we fill in the vacuum with almighty
  tales of beyond

Is the salvation we search for
  there buried deep inside us

Do our sermons lay unwritten
 —last devotional unsung

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11001000 1010011 11100101010 1101 10010111 1101011 110101010 1010001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 254
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 14, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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