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
Sleepless NightSleepless 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
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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
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
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
A Child's Good NightAt night the sun has gone to sleep
And crickets sing a tune.
The bullfrogs croak and creatures creep
Beneath the watching moon.
The masked raccoons and possums prowl
Through...
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Categories:
sleep, children, dream, home, night,
Form:
Quatrain
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
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
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
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:
sleep, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Adult LullabyIn 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
Cosmic DreamsBe 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
So I May DreamLet us curry favor in dog star's
splendid laughing light
bring the crash of passion's waves
through two arms held tight.
I carry your wishes in love's
knapsack,...
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Categories:
heart, sleep, song, star,
Form:
Prose