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Drifting Away

Kurt Philip Behm

To see any clearer
  I drifted away

From your
   lies

From your
  madness

From your paperless
  tray
  
The word forest
   called

For my pen to break
  free

From the blurred
  introspection

Hovering close to your
  tree

When my vision
  unclouded

A bigger picture
  appeared

In whose distance
  I found

What your emptiness
  feared

(Train In Massachusetts: March, 2015)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 26, 2018

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ab Cx Cd db ex xf xg cf ge ah xx dh x
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 347
Words 58
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 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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