Best Awake Poems

AWAKE  ~ IN and OUT ~

Spring arising, before morning light,
I walk under the new epic sun
The aroma of yesterday, gone
Today's the day that will follow tomorrow
I quickly walk a certain walk
Unique is all I can display
Watery eyes staying in the past
While vehicles pass and...

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While moon makes place for sun
dark sky duvet pushed back
stars close their eyes

The restless few
their beady eyes
small marbles 
see all
and everything
hip ceaselessly
don't find peace

The intellectuals
philosophize the dark away
invent intricate 
solutions
to external worldly
problems
and  internal
personal dark

Morning light
moves deep inside
propped up on walls
shines a soft glow
that brings...

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His fragile fevered brow is soaked with life’s sweat
Nearing the end, his death has not arrived just yet
Shivering, his body is on fire, he makes a gentle sigh  
His frame broken down by the years now passed by
The end of the final chapter, his...

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Awake compassion!
Your destiny's call, do not disregard,
                                      ...

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For many years I trudged along
   (but in my heart there was a song)
         through life’s hard game of give and take;
      my muse once sleeping is awake.

The rhymes inside...

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A birdsong floats upon the breeze
 And flutters softly through the trees
 What music once my words did make
 My muse once sleeping is awake!

 My words with wings that used to fly
 Have fallen from a somber sky
 A gust of wind is all...

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The blackened veins of parlor’s scent.
The roses blue and weeping spent.
               The dismal pen — a slogging snake.
My Muse Once Sleeping Is Awake.

A harbinger hung on the door —
This shrouded wreath...

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       "Awake Sweet Stolen Dream"



I wandered outside my conscious element of thought
drifting into wonderlust of dreamland sequences like photographs
as I inhaled fragrant winds gliding upon gossamer wings
of lace and satin, streaming through pink cotton candy clouds.

I touched a rainbow...

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It was dark in the Air Raid Shelter
Water underfoot
Candles had long since extinguished
But the battle raged  all night

Mrs Brown
She's the nosey one
Had peeked though a chink
Sky red with fire cant see anyone

A child started whimpering
Are we  going to die
The words started off a chorus
Of cries and...

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Shredded remnants of foolish desire
Binding me long to this earth
Fade now
To small regrets
Of wasted time.

Strident bits of childish dreams
Holding me strong to this world
Fill instead
With pure reflections
Of grace.

And I sleep upon
Quiet pools of love
Sparkling brilliant blue
Against the harsh pull
Of arid pain.

And I dream awake
In visions...

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(Inspired by lyrics of Bonamassa's "Woke Up Dreaming")

Sometimes life can be very hard.
My dog died. Worse though,
my sweetie’s not around.
Feeling so morose; 
feeling so forlorn.
Where’s that good fortune
I thought I once had found?

Is this world our reality?
Folk’s going crazy.
A nightmare more it seems.
Politicians lying; 
sad...

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Pretense blinks unthinkingly
prominent neon sign
Promoting delicious wishes
heady aspirations primed

Porous ears absorb spiel
Charmed python entrancing rises
Web weaving traitor traps
victim with outlandish surprises

Silkily wrapped casualty constrained
unsuspecting pawn amusing lure
Deceipt's imminent death awards
trust's established pristine pure

Glitz will blitz framework 
Compulsive claims manifest
Embellishment dispelled reveals
authenticity's skeleton undressed

Facade unfastened, centre...

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"This poem marks the beginning of a new era, a time when nations will unite in harmony. The poet, Shina Okram, seeks to convey the dawn of happiness that awaits humanity after a devastating universal war. Shina Okram is not a profound thinker or writer,...

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Nested in the cat’s cradle
Paraded in a child’s fable         
I have no voice, don’t let me die
No longer shall I live a lie
I have no soul nor thoughts to save
Unbeknownst to me is
this life beyond the grave?
A...

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3 am in the morning..
Still awake..
too busy Wiping
blood off the marble floor...
tried putting myself to sleep
Listening to some happy songs...
But that moment my heart broke
The moment i realised i was all alone...
Mom knocked the door 
Hearing from my room some wierd noise..
"Im fine mommy" shouted...

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