Best Drowsily Poems

Daybreak usually greets me when it ascends each day.
Yawning, I drowsily rise from the comfort of my bed
as the horizon glows with colors in resplendent array.

Dawn announces, "The warmth of Ra is on its way!"
Soon, over land and sea, aureate beams will spread.
Daybreak usually greets...

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A ruby-red sun slowly starts to sink;
its sanguine sunbeams coloring clouds pink.
And as a molten moon mirrors Sole's face,
its gilded beams begin to fall in place.

And as dusk's darkness drowsily descends,
a star-studded sky suddenly transcends.
And, wave wrinkled waters washing ashore
form frothy foam tops, the seagulls...

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Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of his already posted). Born in Pondicherry – a French enclave...

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Negative comments won't hold me down
I won't be wearing it like a royal crown 
It won't get rid of the divorce papers my dad received
When I heard about it, I felt myself in the inside grieve...will he ever be relieved? 
That message was received at...

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When we were young
Summer stretched
In brilliant splendor
As the last school bell tolled
We spilled forth from
School marm’s arms
And greeted freedom
In the jeweled waters 
of beach and stream
With picnics, sunburns 
And warm summer nights
In tents
Listening drowsily to the cicadas song...

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Smoke bellowed out the top
Of the trawler’s ships
As the merciless hunters loaded
Their harpoons with exploding tips

“There she blows,” a sailor shouted 
It was a female whale that surfaced and spouted
The engines roared in hot pursuit
The Captain aiming ready to shoot
He shoots, it explodes, making a...

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A little Girl’s Journey    

A little girl’s day dream of her first train ride
A journey filled with laughter,
fun, comfort, and ease
Her heart does a small leap
With butterflies on daisies teasing her tummy
Excited with glee barely able to sleep
with thoughts on her mind
~
Does...

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Sunbeams interact with dreams
at the shallow end of sleep.
And reality awakes;
if it isn't buried too deep.

Drowsily reaching over,
you half expect he'll be there.
But his pillow's all you find,
where his scent clings to the air.

His death brought grief to your door,
but your tears have mostly dried.
For...

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Sleepless
Nights
Drifting
In and
Out
and
I realize
that

I've
Lost myself
Inside
This house

My
home
with
Glass walls
and
darkened windows
Ne'er letting the light in
Trying
to
find
an escape

and

In
This dreamlike
State
I
find myself walking
Through the halls
I once knew
My
feet
Throb from
the tingling sensation of
numbness that only
the
Cold Glass floor can bring

My
Nightdress
ghost like in appearence
flutters
in
the
wind
as
glacial temperatures
drop
and
My
breath
becoming visible
like tufts of
Clouds

Eerie
it seems
that no one can
hear my cries
and
the
walls
White
as
Angel Wings
Glow
in the Darkness...

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Sitting on the beach of “Puri” beholden at the setting sun   
Rose-colored globe dropping drowsily in fathom less ocean.

Felt every atom of the sand pulsating with divinity
 Million years since depicting the milieu of sanctity.


Envisioned countless footprints of great master on the sand...

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Gold
ruptures
shining pearl,
splitting ashen
powdered nebula
languidly changing form.
Infused fuchsia wisps unfold
drowsily thread by thread trailing
athwart the resplendent crimson orb
seductively slipping into twilight....

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On a summer’s day, 
Drowsily as I lay;
On my soft bed, 
On an empty head;
Eating all the muffins away! 


'Summer Laziness' Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Mohan Chutani
Written and Submitted on: 05/06/2020...

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The winter approaching, 
Snow glistening,
The sound of wind so strong,
Midnight fuel burning,
My heart is so lonely.

Listening to unfriendly loud screams,
The snoring and friends’ bad dreams,
Very faint in my ear but close it seems,
As silence creeps in and cover my dizziness,
My heart is so lonely,
I cover...

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poesie slumbers
quietly breathing
swathed in white noise 
deep in reverie

poesie trances
in an English garden
picture windows
take after an Anglian sky

poesie rolls over
on freshly cut grass 
hedged in by Japanese Quince
the color of wild things waking

poesie sighs deeply
someone's pestering
a spiny shrub grows taller
a pond furthermore darkens

poesie tosses and...

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Dreams of a distant past
Dance in the dungeon of my heart
Driving me to drop my daily duties
And to dare wonder
At how shall it be
When,
Breathless, I shall be in your gaze
Trying to look as neutral
As would be a statue
In the midst of a storm!

Shall the winds...

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