Best Sleep Poems
Below are the all-time best Sleep poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sleep poems written by PoetrySoup members
An Evening Primrose In Your SleepI wanna be
the mild fragrance
of an evening primrose
gentle and sweet
beneath your sheet
Cluster of petals
which bloom
pink blossoms
to wither softly
into your sleep
Tell me...
What is the colour
of your...
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Categories:
fantasy, flower, sensual, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
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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:
sleep, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Forest"What happens in the forest stays in the forest"
The trees are trimmed,
The leaves on the ground
Proposing passion, sweet mist
Naked with nothing to bare...
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Categories:
sleep, art, imagination, passion, seasons,
Form:
Alliteration
ShineShine as a source of endless light
whose rainbows of colour deter the night
where daydreams are gentle as doves in flight
and sleep the sleep of angels
Shine...
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Categories:
death, sleep,
Form:
Elegy
To Dreamland on Sunset's LullabyTo Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby
Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.
To...
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Categories:
Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Lyric
Two Pairs of ShoesTwo pairs of shoes beside the bed.
Mine are tiny, his large instead.
His are steel toed, sandals are mine.
His dull and dark, but mine have shine.
Opposites...
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Categories:
love, sleep,
Form:
Couplet
Sleeping With The EnemySLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
See what you want to see
Don't Look at me!
You are staring you are watching;
Eat what you can't be
Come sleep by my side
The...
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Categories:
sleep, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Lyric
A kiss Within The StarsSo easy to remember ,So hard to forget
A kiss within the stars,through eyes of love once met.
Softly spoken voices still whisper in the wind
As gentle...
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Categories:
absence, sleep, stars,
Form:
Lyric
The Hands of Time-RondeauThe Hands of Time
The hands of time stand eerie still
Where hearts chamber a cagey chill,
And whispers warn of shadows deep
With eyes that strain as shower’s...
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Categories:
destiny, sleep, time,
Form:
Rondeau
COSMIC DREAMS
Be it evidence consequence or coincidence
Every night as I succumb to somnolence
Heavenly smoke rings of frankincense
Rise upwards with sweet opulence
Dulcet dreams inevitably commence
Without fanfare hype...
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Categories:
dream, fantasy, night, sleep,
Form:
Monorhyme
Spider Spun SilkShe returns my gaze when I'm too restless to sleep
a lustrous pearl mounted, deep set in a sapphire sky
I lie awake in...
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Categories:
moon, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
ADULT LULLABY
In my arms you can forget your troubles
Close your eyes and leave them all behind
I’ll sway you tenderly to loving rhythms
I’ll comfort you to sweet...
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Categories:
health, love, Lullaby, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
My Darling Little One, You Carried MeA hardened and disciplined man drove to the grocery store lost in thought,
with setting of sun, the long day's work almost found it's end.
Hoisting...
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Categories:
daughter, joy, sleep, true
Form:
Rhyme
FirefliesNight fell,
Summer’s heat abating,
I sat leaning against a tall magnolia,
Its fragrance spreading everywhere
Like echoes of whispering breezes.
Despite all I could not rest and sleep.
The moon...
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Categories:
beauty, insect, night, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
Lullaby in the Sunset
It’s time for the daytime to dance into night,
Its tangerine taffeta dress a delight,
Where is it going? Coloured so bright?
Sleep now my sunshine, you’ll dance...
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Categories:
baby, Lullaby, night, sleep,
Form:
Lyric
Old WoundsComposed, my dreams embrace, then fade
with memories, quite undefined
returning nights, upon the shade
when clocks are wound, and sun reclines
When weariness is not enough
to lie alone,...
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Categories:
feelings, introspection, sleep,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Counting Sheep
When counting sheep on sleepless nights
fails to make me sleep
I count the stars in vaulted heights
that...
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Categories:
sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
A Sleepless Night TrioletFrom Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
"To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub.”
Perchance to dream. . . Ah yes, but first to sleep!
My little clock keeps ticking on...
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Categories:
sleep,
Form:
Triolet
Chased By The Dawn
In the downy-soft hours, where dawn hovers near,
Night's uncovered dream, must disappear.
Once, delivered, then replaced,
Never...
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Categories:
dream, night, sleep,
Form:
Verse
Not One Word
Silence
The sweet rhapsody of quietness
Sit back and savor
the music of the void,
where no dissonant voices are heard
It's so relaxing in this soundless realm;
break not the...
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Categories:
dream, imagery, love, sleep,
Form:
Verse
A Meadow's SighThe meadow’s breath a gift to all, the mist, the morning dew,
a silent sigh, a heartfelt call, a prayer to me and you.
Green and warm,...
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Categories:
sleep, animals, life, loss, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Worlds Of IceWinter's whimsical nature comes with
fickle freeze, cold pervading every fibre
How I remember you, red hot
against...
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Categories:
dream, love, memory, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
In Darkness I Dwell
How long will this dreary night go on
Seems years since light of morn
Why does worry keep me awake
What is this burden I cannot shake
Heart beats...
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Categories:
dark, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
Lull-Lull-LullabiesLithesome fingers trailed along
the ukulele’s frets
as Lilah played her dulcet lullabies.
Swaddled in a blanket, smiling,
lay her little lad,
looking up at her with large...
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Categories:
sleep, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas time
Nightgowns on at 9:01
Adrenal induced delerium
Santa’s journey has surly begun
To our beds, we were a scurrying
Closed eyes, at 9:05
But sleep would not come easy
We’d twist...
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Categories:
sleep, childhood, christmas, night, sister,
Form:
Rhyme