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Jun 2019
I don’t write sonnets,
  or limerick verse

I don’t write haiku,
  though often terse

I don’t write ballads,
  or Horatian odes

I don’t write parables,
  to self-implode

But I do write in rhythm,
  and often in rhyme

With meaning that’s buried,
  and metered in time

All verbal indenture,
  I must disavow

For the meaning to rise
  —when the fates do allow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
Kurt Philip Behm
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