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Best Go To Sleep Poems

Below are the all-time best Go To Sleep poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of go to sleep poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Privacy of Your Dreams
what do you dream of when you go to sleep at night
where do you fly to when you turn off the light
hours of travel all...

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Categories: go to sleep, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Amid the Jagged Shadows -
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

               Samuel...

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Categories: go to sleep, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Brothers Ii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: go to sleep, cute, immigration, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Loving Son
They always said, “Please bother us no more”
when Tommy sang, and Mom would stick her head
inside his room. “We need to shut your door!”

And once...

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Categories: go to sleep, sad,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: go to sleep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Two Pairs of Shoes
Two pairs of shoes beside the bed.
Mine are tiny, his large instead.

His are steel toed, sandals are mine.
His dull and dark, but mine have shine.

Opposites...

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Categories: go to sleep, love, sleep,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - When Words Are Not Enough -
When a heaven cracks and stars go to sleep 
  Morning so incredibly quiet - 
  A peaceful morning - the sun's rays...

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Categories: go to sleep, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member We Are Brothers Iii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: go to sleep, peace, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Hurry, Winter Is Coming -
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Categories: go to sleep, animal, nature, october, snow,
Form: Shape
Autumn In Waiting
Autumn in Waiting 

I love when vineyards turn 
to yellow, orange, and red.
I will get up an hour later,
and may earlier go to bed.

The valley...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: go to sleep, autumn, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God
GOD

I praise him
I kneel before him
I lay and pray and go to sleep
Knowing his eyes are upon my dreams
Like incense that runs, through the air
He...

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Categories: go to sleep, addiction, beauty, body, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Snaffylaffy Swiger
The SnaffyLaffy Swiger
Looks something like a tiger.
His stripes are big and bright
Just like a rainbow.
They shimmer glittery
Beneath the moon glow
Florescent green, pink, blue and yellow.
SnaffyLaffy...

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Categories: go to sleep, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Sour Fantasy
Sour Fantasy…

I saw you there passing by.
   Walking graceful, kind of shy.
Body gorgeous angel face,
   Hair was so long, dim the...

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Categories: go to sleep, allusion, desire, dream, love,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood Memory
My auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
    I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me,...

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Categories: go to sleep, angel, childhood, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Daze
Wake up in the afternoon, I go to sleep at two,
I'm spending all my time just wasting time, nothing else to do,
Too doo, too doo.

I'm...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: go to sleep, summer,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs