Best Sleepers Poems

Open my eyes and say to myself
How am I feeling today
Most morning, myself says, “are you nuts!”
“It's too early, turn over I say!”

Going back to sleep ain't gonna happen
I'd just toss and turn and moan
So it's “up and at 'im”, the time is now
“Rise 'n...

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THE SLEEPERS AWAKE

For century or more they served
Unchanging paths they always kept
As in a dream the tracks preserved
With faith immovable they slept

One day as on a given sign 
Their somnolence came to an end
They woke and each looked down the line
Thought: ‘Now’s the time to...

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She lay upon the chill drying sand 
disheveled
lay the brassy gold of her hair 
adorned with seaweed
upon her blue gray cheeks
small pink crabs crawl 
the ruched red skirt she wore washed
back and forth waist high showing white cotton
chill winds blew drying sand across her open...

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Idle gnomes
glumly guard gravestones
ungrateful Immortal sleeps...

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I don't mind the dark so much.
It's the hour, the time when dark comes around
that haunts me.
It's the eerie silence of unconsciousness,
and the quiet muffled sounds of white noise.
I am awake among sleepers who dream
blissfully and peacefully,
who will wake in the early hours of the...

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Drowning in our incubus sleep,
phantom enemies are devised.
Easy answers for night terrors.
Social purgatory for the stranger,
Our river Styx for the brown ones.

Our fortress must wall them out.
Brown poverty is culpable.
Starving families must be criminals.
Racialism winking and nodding.
Jingoism sneering and taunting.
Everyone knows the words.

ICE round up...

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A night of deep and dreaming sleep on a warm and firm mattress with appropriate coverings was not necessarily an item on our wish list, because we drew accustomed to the more simpler forms of mattresses that were not firm but filled with cotton, and...

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The Sleepers sleep beneath the Mound,
And wait, in holy Slumber bound.
When will those Knights of Arthur’s ken
Ride forth to free the land, again?

When fire and sword, injustice rule
And plots hatched by magicians cruel
Oppress with plague, injustice, riot
And violate the humble quiet
With cries of bitter calm...

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I've allowed my vision to become muddled,
And pushing you away seemed my only tiny salvation.
To know that your alright brings my dead heart to flight,
as i down these pills tonight.
Always have been strong, just one night, just once I would like to fall.
You can call...

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Open my eyes and say to myself
How am I feeling today
Most morning, myself says, “are you nuts!”
“It's too early, turn over I say!”

Going back to sleep ain't gonna happen
I'd just toss and turn and moan
So it's “up and at 'im”, the time is now
“Rise 'n...

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In the meadow, of the fields of life burning ripe with ire, I lay. Falling into a nagging sleep away from all the begging flowers. Aloof into the night, with blindfolds to help me rest peacefully. I Am above the wounds watching. Ill from all...

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angelic sleepers
still trio of noisemakers
— my heart imparts love

7/25/2018...

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Astronauts sleep like bats
Hanging from the ceiling in bags
But this does not tell us about astro-cats
Do they sleep in cots made of rags?

What about astro-dogs and astro-pigs?
Are their bunks teeny or the biggest of the bigs?
Has there yet been an astro-horse?
Political correctness says there should...

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I appreciate
The patriotic voices
It does my heart good

I truly believe
In what makes this country great
But I would say this:

The Constitution
And Bill of Rights created
To ensure freedom

Against tyranny
And to stop invaders from
Attacking our homes

We have the right to
Should pack a gun...

Having the right to
Be free goes...

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Is he invisible to the naked eye,

Can’t she be seen by the passers-by,

The track marks on her body,

Follow them they tell a story,

Full of heartache and purgatory,

 

We look but nobody thinks to stop,

Judged and moved on by the cops,

No, where to turn no, no...

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