sleep writing

I write my best poetry when I'm asleep.

pioneering paths through the uncharted unconscious

I plot wordy insurrection

overthrowing tyrannical grammatical conventions

deeply rooted inventions, created through subconscious retention

Or so I'm told....

I write my best poetry when I'm asleep.

the shoemaker's elves working like dwarves in a mine

but from it's the mine of my unaware mind

that they chisel out the gems I don't speak.

I write my best poetry when I'm asleep.

those few precious hours rest are

where I display my art

for an audience of none or

as many as my dream may hold captive

I write my best poetry when I'm asleep.

words woven like silken silver,

dancing in moonshine, ethereal like.

and only the faintest glimmers remain,

once the consciousness takes hold.