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...

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Oh Hypnos lord of all the lands of dream,
    Whose slumb’rous breath weaves eyes with poppy leaf,
    And whose...

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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...

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Assaulting me!  The darkness comes to be
    in devil’s guise. Phantom haunts my mind;
  in sleep paralysis I cannot flee...

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I

He came from a land of ice and snow,
It was a forgotten place frozen in time;
And he was the only son of the King,
He was...

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The scratchy fog will not alight,
upon the eye's shield to the night.
On upward drafts of rumination,
Hypnos whirls past his noble station.
Like Greeks concealed inside the...

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Sometimes, I wander outside in the hours of midnight.
And boy,every time I'm welcomed with a strange sight.

There is this ominous silence, no mewling babies and...

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It is time
Too long in bed
I stretch
Cast off the bonds of Hypnos

Cold white sheets retreat
I am free
My head lifts
Sun caresses my face

I rise, standing tall
Naked...

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Behind shuttered eyes
Visions of a mystic place
Drifting aimlessly
Somewhere out in nether space
Moonlit dreams caress my face

In his golden halls  
Hypnos sits upon his throne
Master...

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To Sleep


     As relentless day slips into the night,

     Uninvited shadows from darkness creep,

   ...

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I was a starving minion, 
questing after the deep highs 
of luscious laughter 
that slip off slumber's linen wings,
pleasantly removed 
from the pain of wanting
what...

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A written word wistfully wrought into a compendium grim,
Of the darkling ravens beset upon the plutonian shores,
Hither did your shapeless muse invade our psyche and...

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The twilight veils
the summer sky,
as waves begin
terrestial flight.
In crescendo, the conga
chants a march-
luring my feet
to join the dance.

Being blinded by darkness
of almost night; 
for a...

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if i could be 
i'd be the protege to Aphrodite, the arrow 
in Cupid's bow, the war for Ares and the
underworld for Hades or just...

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