Smoke dreams to suit your sense of taste, size, and shape
Go to your head like air-cured or oil-cured briar.
It’s enough to make a connoisseur go ape
Drawing, tasting, without inhaling’s a nice way to retire.
Satisfying, relaxing, and a fine aesthetic pleasure
Can be gotten in a variety of sizes, shapes and forms;
Standard or freehand, you could always get higher
On a pipe of Algerian, Corsican, or Grecian briar.
Meershaum’s not bad, but straight grain
Or birdseye can better light my fire.
Simply put your eyes to the test of a true admirer
Or collector. Why spend all that bread on wasteful smokesake?
When fifty, one hundred or two hundred dollar’s money
Enough to make a casual smoker quake.
Try a Dunhill, Viprati, or inexpensive Stanwell,
A soft charring flame or puff; a smoky cloud
To get you that much higher.
Smoky Latakia, Virginia, Burley or Cavendish mixture
Will never make you a liar.
Enjoy an exotic whiff of finely aged leaf;
Your taste buds will never tire.
Coarse cut, ribbon cut, dark rope or mottled flake--
Close your eyes and elevate your palate
To the heights of a mountain lake.
There under the cooling shade of a pine tree you’ll wake
To the aroma of all outdoors--mouth agape.
It’s enough to make a connoisseur go ape.
Smoke dreams to suit your taste, size, or shape,
Straight, cross grain, rusticated, or sandblast--
You can always get higher.
Nothing goes to your head like well-aged briar.
by Allan David Goldschmidt
Time Clock, Allan David Goldschmidt’s third book of poetry will be published by Poets Wear Prada later this year. His previously published collections are Of Sun and Wind and Woodwinds. Allan has been writing poetry for approximately 35 years, drawing for about 30 years, playing western flute since 1977, and Japanese Shakuhachi flute for 13 years. He was Assistant Art Director for Medicinal Purposes under the late Robert Dunn. A four-page spread on Allan’s multi-versatile artistic career was in a local neighborhood newspaper last year.
Visit him online at http://poetswearprada.home.att.net/AllanDavidGoldschmidt.html.
Go to your head like air-cured or oil-cured briar.
It’s enough to make a connoisseur go ape
Drawing, tasting, without inhaling’s a nice way to retire.
Satisfying, relaxing, and a fine aesthetic pleasure
Can be gotten in a variety of sizes, shapes and forms;
Standard or freehand, you could always get higher
On a pipe of Algerian, Corsican, or Grecian briar.
Meershaum’s not bad, but straight grain
Or birdseye can better light my fire.
Simply put your eyes to the test of a true admirer
Or collector. Why spend all that bread on wasteful smokesake?
When fifty, one hundred or two hundred dollar’s money
Enough to make a casual smoker quake.
Try a Dunhill, Viprati, or inexpensive Stanwell,
A soft charring flame or puff; a smoky cloud
To get you that much higher.
Smoky Latakia, Virginia, Burley or Cavendish mixture
Will never make you a liar.
Enjoy an exotic whiff of finely aged leaf;
Your taste buds will never tire.
Coarse cut, ribbon cut, dark rope or mottled flake--
Close your eyes and elevate your palate
To the heights of a mountain lake.
There under the cooling shade of a pine tree you’ll wake
To the aroma of all outdoors--mouth agape.
It’s enough to make a connoisseur go ape.
Smoke dreams to suit your taste, size, or shape,
Straight, cross grain, rusticated, or sandblast--
You can always get higher.
Nothing goes to your head like well-aged briar.
by Allan David Goldschmidt
Time Clock, Allan David Goldschmidt’s third book of poetry will be published by Poets Wear Prada later this year. His previously published collections are Of Sun and Wind and Woodwinds. Allan has been writing poetry for approximately 35 years, drawing for about 30 years, playing western flute since 1977, and Japanese Shakuhachi flute for 13 years. He was Assistant Art Director for Medicinal Purposes under the late Robert Dunn. A four-page spread on Allan’s multi-versatile artistic career was in a local neighborhood newspaper last year.
Visit him online at http://poetswearprada.home.att.net/AllanDavidGoldschmidt.html.
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