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Best Awake Poems

Below are the all-time best Awake poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of awake poems written by PoetrySoup members


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: awake, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: awake, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Honeymoon Serenade
Just as the moon rises each night
and even as snow is caressed by its light,
then glowing, I'll rise, becoming your dawn,
your curved sleeping form to...

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Categories: awake, romance,
Form: Lyric
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: awake, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise

Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.

Haloed in hazy...

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Categories: awake, memory, morning, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Crying River
Crying River (The Untold Ballad) 

Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awake, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: awake, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
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: awake, beauty, love, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Poet's Adoration of Nature
As dusk's misty tones awake from silence,
darkness fades, as birds gather to rejoice.
A beautiful reminder of patience,
their sweet melodies give nature her voice.

Darkness fades, as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awake, analogy, nature, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member When I Dream Deep
As the mornings sun - begins to shine 
And memories of yesterday - I leave behind 
I get to see - another rising sun 
And...

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Categories: awake, memory,
Form: Rhyme
A Soup Bowl Full of Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all thru the Soup bowl,
Not a poet was writing, not even the musing mole.
All their pens were hung by...

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Categories: awake, christmas, family, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh Lord, As I Lay Down To Sleep
  Fear not of the undiscovered journey - 
   the souls’s compass will show you the way ~ the poet  

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Categories: awake, heaven, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: awake, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Under the Same Moon -3-Way-Collaboration-
~Under the Same Moon~

P.D.
Our days are different, living under the same moon
Down here in TEXAS, life carries a different tune
This world spins on its lovely...

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Categories: awake, friendship, lifeworld, life, love,
Form: Couplet
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: awake, death, faith, mother,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs