Best Sleepless Poems

Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle the insomniac moon
Like magic and beauty, "She's Gone With the Wind."

The idea of love, 
broken like yesterday's wishbone.
She is leaving today, her arms, my shelter
Her...

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sleepless night---
the moon becomes
more familiar




© kash poet 2012
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Placement: 1st;(Feb. 2012)

Contest: Any Verse Maxm. 12 lines

Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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From 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 and on.

I‘m long past even trying to count sheep.

Perchance to dream. . . Ah, yes, but first to sleep!

A creeping...

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Sleepless 
this 
night.Every 
time 
I 
try 
to 
sleep, 
your 
smiling 
face 
from 
the 
photoframe 
wakes 
me 
up.So 
I 
pluck 
words 
from 
my 
heart 
to 
stitch 
a 
garland 
for 
you.Wish 
my 
every 
single 
word 
could 
touch 
you 
instantly.And 
then 
whispers 
love 
talks 
to 
you.
Never 
do 
I...

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Roving a youthful shadowed ebony heaven
as the earth is still on blissful spring night flight.
I fly through and over the enclosing trees,
boughs', and the susurration fluttering leaves. 

I emerge to nesting Nightingales
and their cacophony melodious
of unfilled cries , calling me
to come to appease their needs.

Alighting...

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Sleepless Valentine



I took the pinkie blue cuddlesome bear
And by its blood scarlet bow
Noose tied hung it
Too soft
With its felted heart
And false cute sentiment

And with eyes burning hot
I tore it down
Fluffy bear
Thrown to the ground
Where
The petal shard-ed reds of rose
Lay dashed
On broken stems

Thrashed to the corner
The...

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Sleepless Nights - Limerick Insomnia Revisited 

Limericks are so hard to write.
Sometimes, keep me up half the night
Spending way too much time
Just trying to rhyme
A word that’s just out of sight.


Written By John Posey
07/02/13...

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Insomnia, familiar friend,
crawled into bed this summer night
so once again, inflamed with dread
I wander now in pitch of dark 
and touch the places, now by heart, that sprawl unstirred by weary minds

This lonely place, where I used to come
where armless grief, and headless doubt
and worry...

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Fate
kismet
good fortune
pre ordinance
luck...

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I once had a friend named Mildred

Who wiggled a lot in my bed,

She’d snore with delight

Her growl was a fright;

I rang the alarm clock instead.


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“Without the right sleep, even the gentlest person 
can turn into a crazed beast!”—own quote
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John Freeman’s Dumb and Dumber Personal quotes
5/21/2015...

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Another sleepless night alone,
as thoughts raced through my head,
thinking about that day you left,
and the last words that you said.
I wake up several times at night,
reaching for an empty space,
hoping all was just a dream,
and I’d wake to see your face.
Never does a day pass...

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I sleep, though it’s only temporary
Simple love exists there within my eyes
However it’s broken, quite unhealthy
I cannot sleep, I awake with disguise

Simple love exists there within my eyes
She holds all my thoughts firm outside and in
I cannot sleep, I awake with disguise
As though she holds...

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first sunbeams

on my infant's face

the chair still rocking...

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A spic and span barren bed,
soft pillow with blanket spread.
You're tired and bored, all hackneyed.
Ready to sleep, drop down dead.

But...a vigilant mind..alive in dread.
cacophony..chaos..thoughts unsaid.
Another sleepless night ahead? 

Head and heart throbs, like burning cigarettes
Broken love haunts, rude taunts and threats.
Throttled throat breathes, playback cassetes.
Silent...

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Sleep 
sleep is afar from the eyes
For the mind is too busy 
with many thoughts of you
Tossing and turning 
staring up into space

Mad
am I gone mad 
I've been trying to get over you
Yet memories of good times glimmering my mind 
I can't help smiling 
You...

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