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My Hope

Kurt Philip Behm

With chaos on my doorstep,
  reasoning befalls

With heartache as my calling card,
  love though distant calls

All questions left unanswered,
  with time their holy grail

As seasons march to heavens step
  —my hope to then prevail

(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 01, 2019

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Scheme AB XB XC AC X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 248
Words 40
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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