Best Shuteye Poems

whales sleep eerily
vertical in dangling pods
sea otters hold hands...

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Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got...

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Having been a journalist for the past forty years, now ready to make my final accord, I had to cover this one last story. ...

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It’s just become almost an usual ache,
At night longing for rest, I stay awake;
Sleep accosts me hardly ever these days,
As I keep on tossing indifferent...

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Awakening From Pleasant Dreams...

No matter scant details recalled upon 
arising from slumber, this even though 
submerged into deep unconscious - (as 
ifmine being plunged bajillion...

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Sleep's suspended awareness as nothingness reigns.
It's when bedding is mussed and disheveled is hair.
It's a welcome escape, anesthetic for pains,
And a physical must--time for rest...

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Asper sweaty palms, 
and other physiological ills
nothing beats infusion of
spine tingling electrifying chills -
experiencing psychological nirvana,
(nope NOT even 
prescription medication pills)

except attaining, experiencing, and succumbing
delivering...

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Oh, how can I describe you, ME,
     When that's the person I can't see?
I look and look, and look some more,
...

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Long Day
 
It's been a long hard day in the saddle
I'm really tired of fighting with cattle
My hands are all blistered
My leg is injured
My tail...

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Transcendent meditative
ascendance assuaged
deep sleep grogginess resultant
resounding residual REM cycles
profound dreams decreasingly faint grip
fading fast, yet...

after effects heavily linger
courtesy toehold subconscious sojourn
oft times mentally exhausting,
nonetheless requisite...

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Nothing more intimate than sleep
wake before dawn, go downtown
prepare for tomorrow, come home from work late.

Most cities prosper undisturbed
sleeping peacefully
while the tide goes out.

Are we...

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Enervated and energized after cold shower
the perfect tonic to gin body though o'clock
wee hours August thirty one two thousand
nineteen - natural buzz to stave off...

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Argh... infamous pinwheel on macbook pro 2009

alas and alack
myopic staring eyes
bulge out their sockets,
cuz yours truly taken aback
I espied sight more frightful,
than rookie dazed chess...

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I’m sleeping in the living room*
Which shares a common wall
With my next-door neighbor’s bedroom;
Shouldn’t bother me at all.

But she must be hard of hearing
‘Cause her...

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During midnight hour thoughts run deep
into my mind anxiety creeps
world is quiet silence reigns
Eluded by sleep yet again.

Dark night does not comfort me
Worries gather I...

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