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Spoken Left

Kurt P Behm

Consciousness is split in two,
the left side has a voice

The right side listens mute aware,
the left side has a choice

Two conscious beings inside one brain,
split left and right distinct

As knowledge shared is spoken left
—each time you stop and think

(Dreamsleep: November, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 20, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XA XA XX XX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 275
Words 49
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
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