O come sweet sleep, and close my eyes with verse! <br />with drowsy metre, meet a deeper sleep; <br />to sleep, to dream, I never am averse - <br />to slumber numbed by poet's numbers deep; <br /> <br />so, here's a verse that's very brief - a sonnet: <br />just fourteen lines to challenge your attention: <br />please rest your weary ears, I pray, upon it; <br />head up; back straight; let go of any tension; <br /> <br />count the passing seconds to that time <br />-I'll indicate it with a final couplet - <br />when glorious English in immortal rhyme <br />blesses you with torpor's blissful duvet... <br /> <br />and after tribute paid to Orpheus' charms, <br />with stifled yawn, depart to Morpheus' arms...<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0037-ode-to-the-patience-of-a-yawning-audience/
