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Best Insomniac Poems

Below are the all-time best Insomniac poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of insomniac poems written by PoetrySoup members


Insomniac Attack
A Hindenburg-Esque explosion
Say goodbye to rationality 
While all the daily trespassers Scream!
"OH THE INSANITY!!!!"
I sleep with sinners
Weep with the saints 
I'm twice the fossil
Three times...

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Categories: insomniac, bible, faith, hilarious,
Form: Blitz



Premium Member Sleepless Night
Sleepless Night

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...

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Categories: insomniac, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: insomniac, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If it wasnt for poetry
Poetry can be a critical liaison when words are fashioned,
that do not please the beholder's eyes.

I'm a poet without a pen, weaving woes on a...

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Categories: insomniac, deep, emotions, for him,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Truth Embraced
Living Truth

Ancient guides of venerated truth
Stumble through numb spiritual graveyards
Where truth casts its shadow in chiseled words,
A signature of affection,
On moss bathed alabaster stones that...

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Categories: insomniac, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Raspberry Ruins
In a world bejeweled 
with tainted trinkets,
and feigned flowers,
we follow the 
wailing waves below 
whirling wind,
like secluded silhouettes,
stranded on the
cusp of chaos,
unable to find the...

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Categories: insomniac, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song Of Demise
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
I think I made you up inside my...

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Categories: insomniac, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desperate Hope

There is an illusion of dishonesty in darkness,
so we rejoice when spring sings saccharine serenades.
I've always been a soul yearning for summer scents,
but somewhere the...

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Categories: insomniac, assonance, emotions, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Today Shines Bright
Today, I count my many blessings
as today is a great new day and
I am filled with the kind of joy
a great nights sleep affords
a tired,...

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Categories: insomniac, appreciation, day, dedication, earth,
Form: Free verse
Death, Art Thou My Friend
Anxious, chained at the barrier hither
Musings take hold of my existence
Unsure whether I am an individual or a species
Do I contain contradictions in these multitudes

In...

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Categories: insomniac, death, friend,
Form: Blank verse
Jewel Of Jinx - Depression Awareness

An alchemical raven's gray rhapsody awakens those cynical roses who
Breathe-in the ebony beams of blood-bathed sun, exhaling
Cacophonies that ricochet across these truthful horizons where, 
Depressive...

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Categories: insomniac, anger, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Ruminations of a Romance
Winter’s cold chill cuts through my chin.
Within its bleak and brazen embrace,
My brisk days are turned brief and barren.
They are lengthened into sordid sepulchral insomniac...

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Categories: insomniac, depression, fate, hope, love,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member When Silence Speaks
When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt, 
I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity, 
amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining...

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Categories: insomniac, abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Stars Of Clarity
I still reminisce when it was raining incessantly at 3:55 a.m. in the nascent ticks of time on a wistful wednesday. My skin felt the...

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Categories: insomniac, blessing, dream, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Quest For Calm
Written: September 07, 2023
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The bulbs hum with color in this off-white cube.
I move slowly, to catch the glimpse that's doob. 
I wobble and drift through the...

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Categories: insomniac, analogy, angst, bereavement, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs