Sleeping Beauty Poem by David Whalen

Tangled locks of auburn hair
Tresses strewn o’er satin pillow

Silken sheets cool to the skin
Under limbs… lithe as the willow

Languid eyes neath limpid lashes
Tightly closed in dreamy slumber

Lips as soft as feathery ashes
Eyes as brown as earthen umber

Yet as I watch her… the truth is revealing
This woman beside me…this woman I keep

She’s ever so much… more appealing
When she’s ever so much more… deeply asleep