Self Assessment

My dreams: wake, sighs, climb - ladder of stars I wake: breathe, groan, yawn - to sense of me I groan: tired, lone, hurt - webbed in wars A bird: cliff, flight, nest - feathered memory Mother: sap, vein, lake - black breast of milk White milk: nursed, hunger, fed - mouth of joy Life's work: strength, sense, wage - ideas bilked Strange son: write, dream, sleep - the heart that's coy. Measure: time, life, love - endless hope So hope: feel, know, keep - treasure of days Memory: friends, days, dreams - longer than rope Prayer: faith, need, yield - unblemished praise Meaning: craved, sought, found - old analogies Time proves: words, truth, right - in tests of strife Believe: kin, state, creeds - the mind's anthologies My dreams: webs, nets, kites - the sky of life. (Kuhlmann lines)