Best Nap Poems

The mysteries of sleep
                              Long nights with many interruptions
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Brain is crackling, crisp, ivory bone dry
Gremlin stuffing cotton behind my eyes

Head begins to swell with torpidity
Vivid mind fading to transparency

Internal membranes breaking down
Thoughts run a deep molasses brown

'Tween thought and motion, expanding rift
Act of sheer will, the body to lift

Limbs grow wooden, ready to...

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              drink nectar on tap
        eat ambrosia from gods lap
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In Mama's arms you're safe and warm,
As she rocks you gently, there's no fear of harm,
So close your sleepy little eyes,
Hush your crying and fretful sighs.

Drift away to a special place,
Where sweet dreams wrap you in warm embrace.
Let them carry you along,
As Mama sings a...

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I get tired too
I’m no superman
Is it okay I nap?...

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gentle drone
rain drums sleepily
on my metal roof...

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At stark midday

           The guava tree's swishing leaves
   
Rustles my sleep


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- So I opened my soup and read a few poetry. It eased my mind back into warmth. And now 
I'm tired again,...

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Satyr picking thorns
 Bouncing rhythms of jazz horns….
Oaks drop acorns...

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As the morning passes and afternoon arrives 
Full of the normal stress of  daily living
The urge to nap takes a firm hold
Eventually it gets to much to fight
Resting for just a bit seems right
Nobody to see me indulge 
Oh , to the couch seems...

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Already tiny kittens interprets love   Mother's voice purr-fect bond



For Leonora Galinta's contest, "Write Me A Poem...Picture Prompt ( cat and her kittens)...

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I came back from a cold windy walk
Off with my mittens and hat
And coat and boots
On with the tea kettle
I opened the box
“Lipton - 100% Real Tea Leaves
Serve Hot or Iced”
Oooo not ‘iced’
I don’t even want to think about that!
“72 Tea Bags
Decaffeinated with Pure Spring...

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The Nap
Dr. James E. Martin
©March, 2014

He determined to take a nap.
His peers called him a sap.
He laid on the floor,
And started to snore,
It didn’t take long to adapt....

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Flat on my back
I waste a sleepy
Sunday afternoon,
Just a few breaths
Left in the room,
Approaching end
Of a restless phase,
Taking my space.

Smiling to no one,
Wild child never
Left my side,
Not that it needs
A justification,
In sweetness
The means trump
Intention.

The source is
Elusive, unformed
Aloof and free,
Like me, she
Does not belong
To anything,
Except maybe
Her...

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The sky was yellow, with sparkling beams
in iridescent gold
reflected on the pointed hat
of an elf, two centuries old.

The hostess of the hour was sweet
in a robe of mismatched dyes.
She entertained with merely this--
a kiss in her root beer eyes.

The placemats were of baby fern,
woven in...

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For My Daddy, With Infinite Love, Quarters & Innings
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