Best Bedtime Poems

Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun went to bed
The wee little man and the crow he called Ted
Would go through the woods on a nice little...

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     What if I, perchance never awake?
     My solace is in eternity to partake.
     To exist in a realm of God, not of men.
     The joy of having a...

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         What if I, perchance
         never do awake?
         My solace in eternity
         to...

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An Old Man’s Bedtime Prayer

Lord: Now I lay me down to rest.
To get away from this days test.
To rest my head on pillows fluff.
To clear my head of all the stuff.

That comes your way as you get old.
It’s part of life that’s seldom told. 
I...

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What If?

What if guppies and goldfish could swim through the air?
What if birds could only relax by sitting in a chair?

What if spider webs looked like charming bungalows?
What if cheese sticks had to be hunted out in the jungle-os?

What if curtains were carefully hung up...

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Hi folks. The name's Ike. 
'Member me from my other writes?
check 'em out if you'd like.

Me and the Missus, Jane here, jest wanted to say hey.
Jane, she ses I oughta tell you good folks how I pray.
She thought it might be a help to one...

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Grandfather Time,
Fail not by being cruel.
Only a small child,
Harmless & true.
Keep her heart pure,
And her soul far from blue.
Heaven's quilts,
See to this truth,
Wrap her firmly in charity.
Little girl awaits,
Life moments are really in Your Palm Figuretips.
Love letters passed into the hands of future to vision.
She...

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My brain is wound,
my thinker is down,
and I am bedroom bound.

My day is done,
gone is the sun,
and I am bedroom bound....

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Lying there, serenely, after a warm jasmined bath,
The thought hit me, what if I never again do awake?
Just wide eyed in heaven’s home to joyfully partake!

I awoke to live in eternal love with good and not wrath.
Now existingin a realm with God, not one of...

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Narrating breaths,
Tell the story of love.
Deep...inhales of desire,
Caress the long exhales of passion.

Warm flesh tales read,
Verbalized by each soft breath.
Paragraphs of Goosebumps,
Traced and translated by the tongue.

The taste of smooth ivory skin,
Satisfies...midnight cravings.
As her ardent veins, 
Throb with excitement...beckoning, 
The initiation of our nightly chapters....

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Scent of apple
Scent of pear
Scent of darkness
In the air.


Breathing starlight
Dreaming moon
Lullaby's
A cricket tune


Back-porch hammock
Soft and deep
Sways mw into
Summersleep...

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Small one
Playing is done
And your bedtime has come.
Wind is moaning
rafters shifting.
Listen.
Inside closets 
ghosts are sniffing.
Dare not move. Dream you fly.
Sun in your eye
Morning. 

Butterfly Cinquain

Gene Bourne.
07-05-14...

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... but then I see those inquiring eyes, that familiar look:
my brother wants me to tell him a story.
"It's way past your bedtime, you're just gonna doze!"
As he begs incessantly, "Pretty please, please,"

My brother wants me to tell him a story:
the one with the dragon...

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(ohw! ohw! ohwwwww!)
The wolves are out tonight.
“Tread lightly”, echoes father’s words,
“and stay clear of their sight”.

Excited by, my first hallo
to stars and moon so bright.
Excited him allowing me,
to come out on this night.
Caref’ly, had I listened to,
the lessons that he gave.
In underground my classroom
had I...

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Now I Lay Me

Now I lay these tired eyes to sleep,
Oh Lord, 
could you watch over me? 

God, could you Bless my family and friends, 
as I slumber here, in my cozy bed?

One more thing, 
then enough here, being said!

Until the night turns into the...

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