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Facing The Music
12-30-13

Chillin' with Dylan
With nothing new to say
Save the words that come to me
By the Spirit of them life
The truth and the Way
In that I finally got my rest
And I can finally have my coffee
To face the music
Chillin' with Dylan
By the halflight of the morning hours
To pass by this pastime
Of what Stephen King calls
One's devil grass
I never did finish that book
Chillin' with Dylan
In a place where music doth suffice...




Pocket
12-30-13

There were coffee stirs and sugar packets
In my inside pockets of my faded jean jackets
And coffee stains upon my poem pages
And beasts within confined to cages
And commoraderies of fellow sages
In a community where all were of one mind
Giving me something to remember
Of a nostalgia sweet and kind
There were coffee cups used as cup holders
And spiral notebooks and poem folders
There was laughter to lighten the load
Of two ton boulders
So that I could venture out to get more...





Rested
12-30-13

Shallow and deep
Are our Berkshire sheep
By my quantum leap
By which I finally got some sleep
Dreaming of places I have never seen
Glad to be yet unfledged, callow and green
Soon to bring in the year of fourteen
With no resolution but to keep on keeping on
And to rise each morning before the dawn
As does a distant lady friend upstairs
I pray for her good success
So I can cast aside all cares
Shallow and deep
Are our Berkshire sheep....




Hops Left Behind
12-30-13

My hops were effeminate
And my drafts were my lovers
So that I could go back to sleep
And bask in the coolness of my covers
Where my tall glass was my femme fatale
In my days of wherein is excess
Stated in the present tense to make it real
Where the poison was medicinal
In the way I would feel
And she told me
That not many had done what I had
And I must accept this compliment
And take credit
For my getting away from it all...






On Hebrews 5:7,8
12-30-13

He offered up prayers and supplications
That would save him from death
Stated in the present tense
For the cause of poetry
In which I owe him today
My every breath
And so he takes on the role of a human being
To become one of us
Stated in the present tense
To make it official
As though he is a son
He learned obedience
By the things which he doth suffer...