O come sweet sleep, and close my eyes with verse!
with drowsy metre, meet a deeper sleep;
to sleep, to dream, I never am averse -
to slumber numbed by poet's numbers deep;
so, here's a verse that's very brief - a sonnet:
just fourteen lines to challenge your attention:
please rest your weary ears, I pray, upon it;
head up; back straight; let go of any tension;
count the passing seconds to that time
-I'll indicate it with a final couplet -
when glorious English in immortal rhyme
blesses you with torpor's blissful duvet...
and after tribute paid to Orpheus' charms,
with stifled yawn, depart to Morpheus' arms...
I'm so pleased to see you writing so many sonnets lately, Michael, and you write them so well. You're truly a talent in any style. Nicely done.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
A perfect sonnet, with a sense of humor at itself. I don't understand why this has such a low rating. 10 from me, to be sure... -chuck