Ambling Couplets

I'll awake while night is full...
My art, it will not wait...
Calls me from my sleeping world
And leads me from the gate

To tarry is not possible
Like dogs in windows watch
To catch a thought as passerby
And set it to the cloth

To let the couplets amble on
And amble on they will
To pass into oblivion
And ne'er a page to fill

This is a fate I will not brook
These living words must be
I'll catch and zoo the lot of them
For all the world to see