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Alarm call signal beeps, wakes life to hope.
While vague, untidy heap stirs, seeking soap.
Above white sheets eyes peep – ‘collide a scope’
Knaps excerpt from sleep's waves, attempts to cope
Extracts dream-echoes deep which telescope
Nano half-lives, fragile figments elope.
Isolated fragments salmon-surface grope
Now mid the mind’s adjustments, knot loose rope,
Glimpse anchors dreams yet keeps thoughts in their scope.
Flashes snow sheep show, recounted hope
Of t[r]apping spring of sleep... dream’s periscope.
Rise above life's challenge slope!
SEA-change awaits as crocus, once snowbound,
SONg sings which trees decks green, gifts green to ground.
© Jonathan Robin – acrostic sonnet written 12 April 2008 based upon an initial write 7 December 1991 - see below for previous version
Alarm call signal beeps, wakes life to hope.
A vague, untidy heap stirs, seeking soap.
Above the sheets eyes peep – ‘collide a scope’
which skims through waves of sleep, attempts to cope
with dream-echoes deep which telescope
through fragile half-lives, leap, too soon elope.
Stray fragments somehow creep and try to grope
amid the mind’s adjustments, keep loose rope
to anchor dreams yet keep thoughts in their scope.
Flashes show snow sheep once counted in hope
of t[r]apping spring of sleep... dream’s periscope...
© Jonathan Robin – Poem written 7 December 1991
Jonathan ROBIN
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