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Best Asleep Poems

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Premium Member A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...

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Categories: asleep, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: asleep, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Fallen Poet
(The Fallen Poet)

Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: asleep, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Strangler's Wood
In forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
          silent shadows waver...

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Categories: asleep, death,
Form: Rhyme
Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: asleep, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silent Page
Silent Heart

Sad, as it maybe, I had to break my OWN heart, 
Too many nights, I sat there all torn apart
A dream girl, 
Sitting under...

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Categories: asleep, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Storybook Princess
~ A Storybook Princess ~ 

She dreams of princes, princesses and balls 
   A little girl on tippy-toes, not a meter tall
O, the...

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Categories: asleep, dream, fantasy, girl, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sleeping Beauty
It seems you only appear whilst I am asleep,
teasing rapid eye movement to awake and weep.
You hide, so I wonder how beautiful you must be,
fulfil...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: asleep, beauty, love, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Homecoming
It was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...

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Categories: asleep, america, father, home, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: asleep, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Think of You - Where You Bloom - 4
A transparent melody paints the walls
in the coloured scent of fresh linen.

The changing of sheets in the morning air
can not erase our dance from evening...

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Categories: asleep, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member March 19 Memories
Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
in front of...

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Categories: asleep, death, faith, mother,
Form: Free verse
To Dreamland On Sunset's Lullaby
To Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby

Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.

To...

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Categories: asleep, Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Eulogy For God
Oh, Lord! Lest one is asleep,
the purge to kill you,yet again,
is quite deep.
Some, who read your word in
the Bible, re-create it, with myths
that are long...

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Categories: asleep, abortion, faith, god, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Love
.           True love 

I love the way you make me love you
Love the way you...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: asleep, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, loveme, heart,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things