Shelving

Stock take on these shelves
The grocer is a rake
We reluctant leaves

The milk is warming up
Too slow for latter day coffee
Unless we diversify with decaf

A monarch is a we-leviathan
Without whose continental trek
The land might still be free

Such nostalgia for unknown days
Cognition's erudition defies its 
Branded hard head

Stubborn is as war once did
Seasonal endings
Murder stands up in court