Best Hypnos Poems

Sleep has become a thing of fear,
the Darkness is so frightening here.
Uncertainty creeps over me-
am I awake, or still asleep?
Do I exist just in a dreaam?
Sleeping makes me want to scream.
No longer does it bring me rest,
to me, it is to much like death.
My soul's...

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Oh Hypnos lord of all the lands of dream,
    Whose slumb’rous breath weaves eyes with poppy leaf,
    And whose sweet lullabies mortals relieve
Of throes, and shields them from the evil scheme
    Of Phobetor who roams around...

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The west wind is cruel
It appears to stir curtains
When I close my eyes
O Hypnos rush to me 
with
Morpheus and Thanatos....

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The story of the world is an absorbing dream. 
Though longer than our lives, it sometimes feels as brief
As our own rapid days, whose swiftly flowing stream
Bears memory downstream: a light and helpless leaf. 

Our minds grow ripe with age and urge our hearts to...

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A born grace seeks duty,
Aphrodite isn't shade,
Apollo's gift of sight,
A Freudian vexed deems,
Athena shrewdness lair,
Also defeated dread,
Ares symbol of war. 

Syllable count: HMS

Written: February 20, 2022

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