"Rip Van Winkle's Crimson Tears" by David Hart <br /><br />Rip Van Winkle's crystal crimson tears <br />Shatter as sea gulls flit and cheer <br /><br />A child's toy building doth tumble and crash <br />While a moon sky casts a rumbling flash <br /><br />Rene Descartes ponders in an iron stove <br />Mining his mind for the treasure trove <br /><br />Siggy Freud dreams of tunnels and holes <br />Riding a big cigar scrapping other's souls <br /><br />Majesterial Mercury preens his taleria in bliss <br />Musing and fretting, his thoughts quite amiss <br /><br />Rip Van Winkle's blood red years <br />Fail to quell the fanfaronade of tears <br /><br />Rumplestilskin rows in a blue yellow kayak <br />Up to the sun in a fervid fulgurant attack <br /><br />From the fear filled misery of a military trench <br />To the quiet muted cries of a hard park bench <br /><br />Not much ado for a hero these days <br />The hero's in a cardboard box which forever sighs <br /><br />Longing for just one empathetic caress <br />Now worn down with a soul full of duress <br /><br />Rip Van Winkle's sanguine sorrowful tears <br />Yield scant surcease to a deluge of fears <br />2008DavidHartUSA
