Best Sleepiness Poems

When I am weary, tired and worn
When the day on wings has flown
When dusk comes with hushed repose
When I lie, a wilted rose
Sing to me

When...

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The city is a milky, oval opal
cradled between the mountains' breasts;
from my airplane window I view her misty shoulders,
her features masked by darkness,
quiet in midnight...

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CONSUMMATION

She came again last night
with love-lights sparkling in her ebon eyes
and honey dripping from her lovely lips
and visited my chamber in the night,
I heard her...

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Today I have to confess,
I have been suppressed.
By you, 
Else who?
You have stolen my heart,
By you,
My sleepiness is being thwart.
The way you smile,
It freeze me...

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Why I am thinking of my father
on the topic of white snows
perhaps because he seemed almost Hispanic
in his youth, tanned, dark hair and eyes
but whiteness...

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I am in a state of deep sleepiness
I am looking at the sky star-less

On this night of gentleness,
Remedy for the work tiredness

I am dreaming of...

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Yes I did it, it was me
When I had to go pee pee
I never put the seat back down
Now my woman wears a frown
Her white...

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First Day of the Year, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Premier de l’an by T. Wignesan

Each moment of waking up is an act of giving birth
I...

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What am I thankful for?
As I lay here my mind searches 
Afraid of waking up 
it lurches
Vacilating within
the folds of my covers and brain
Trying to...

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As the web of sleepiness leaves me now.

Remembers the time. And alone.

As days go by and the seasons change I can only dream.

I should have...

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COFFEE

His voice, confused, warm,
Apologizing, smiling.
Coffee smell, longing...

Distant voice carries
Early morning sleepiness...
Attraction complete.

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October 31, 2016...

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Be like a poet, prepared for spontaneous inspiration. You may see a wisp of smoke blowing from someone's cigarette - follow its flight into space...

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My spirit has been calling to get up and go to the sea
My spirit has been telling me that there is something for me to...

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Mr. Irrelevant

I've lived through a lot of tragedy in my lifetime
And the lines mark my face making it appear old

With a grimace my eyes open...

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I knew muse senses were waning
 when I rose so late from bed.
All the world seems spinning
 and sleepiness still dances in my head.
Some days...

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