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Asleep Poems - Poems about Asleep

Asleep Poems - Examples of all types of poems about asleep to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for asleep.
Premium Member sleepy baby bird
...Sleepy baby bird Fell out of her mama’s nest She remained asleep Picked up by a gentle hand Restored to her mama’s nest......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, bird,
Form: Tanka



Stiffness
...I try not to. I blink anyway. Like blinking out seawater. It pours. Goosebumps are uncontrollable. Sitting for hours. Sitting unnaturally. But I can’t shift, only sway. They command me to sta......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
... so easy to fall, and so hard to break free somehow as a child I knew it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue at 10 reading books about orphans free from the church the dignity of......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, abuse, addiction, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
Pheasant Hunting
...The sun has brung out a low spinescene against the brush housing thrush and pheasants My father moves as death, silhouetted A proper Shropshire lad I hang my neck In shame and solidarity. The ......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, bird, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member i've just written a Drake diss track
...it's quite good actually Jericho likes it - but i'm struggling not to giggle as i lie on the bed in the middle of the night my wife is not giggling she is asleep but i am certain i heard gi......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



A Mother’s Guide to the Perfect Performance of Parenting
...It wasn’t the life she wanted. This life drained the light from her eyes, Turning them to deep gray circles, Her voice lost its tone, She lost herself. Mothering was not a part of the plan. She......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, angst, mom, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thought of the day
...if we be asleep in the waking state ~ in deep sleep how can we reach heaven’s gate......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Sweet Lover
...“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” - John Green, "The Fault in our Stars." "Love is selfless. Love is ......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, appreciation, beautiful, care, cute,
Form: Free verse
Writing
...I’m writing with pen. Scribbling and doodling. Writing a rough draft. Then an even rougher draft. Falling asleep and knocking coffee all over my pages. Using up my whole notebook. Running to th......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, writing,
Form: Free verse
In Michigan
...We don’t put away our boots and coats. Here in Michigan. Instead, we close our eyes and feel a soft presence. We jerk awake, in our hammocks. To a dream of cold snow. But it was just a dandelion......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Victory in defeat
...Even though we can win, we prefer to yield, since what avail is victory, when souls weep, therefore love is the fragrance, we choose to wield, enabling us to take a consciousness leap. Brother so......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, love, spiritual,
Form: Rispetto
Mountebank
...You made me less. Sleepless. And now I’m falling asleep at the table. Theology swims, Trapped in my teacup. You made me weak. Weak as the colour pink, And still, I shrink. You lied. Th......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, anger, atheist, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CAT AND MOUSE
...In this large house, unseen, I wander round, Climbing up cavities between each wall Hiding in secret places that I’ve found. This is one advantage of being small. Here Jack a......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, fun,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Awake
...I wake in the middle of the night and you are sound asleep beside me. I listen to you breathe and there is no other place I’d rather be. The years go by so quickly now and we know our time is s......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Pub Crawl
...I wish I could do a pub crawl go out and go real mad I wish I could do a pub crawl But it would really make me bad. Just one sugar laden pint of ale Would make me go a whiter shade of pale. I......Read the rest...
Categories: asleep, drink, freedom, health, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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