Smoke

What thoughts have smoldered in your bowl?
Oft the idle
  body met a
    venturesome
      mind over your ember--

You cradled living ashéd soul,
and its free
  spirit took its
    time of repose to
      ponder, peruse, and remember.

At work, imagination's barred:
The toils of
  the day flutter
    and sputter a
      mess of ho-hum dullish dirge.

At rest, the muse lets down her guard:
Calm is the
  crysalis in which
    briliance pupates,
        trebles, and finally will emerge.

What fruits of thought did you see ripe,
Ye musing bard, ye smoking pipe?

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