rested

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 my 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 have 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 (dig this)
12-30-13

He offers 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
As 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 he doth suffer....