Best Sleeplessness Poems

Looming ...

The possibility of crisis
          Life-as-you-now-know-it-ending crisis
                    From a crystal azure sky, shining ...
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It’s an old trick in the book
To count sheep till you fall asleep
But Mr. Insomnia stays up late
It seems he wants to be my date!
He seems to have alternate plans
He makes me do things I cannot understand
Why the other day for crying out loud
He punished...

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Once haunted with sleeplessness-caused angst
gripped by guilt midst tormenting iniquities…
my soul lost its vibrancy in communing with God
Now, by His pardon of loving forgiveness ---
I’m restored, enjoying serenity of night’s rest.

When attacked by sleeplessness-inflicted sorrow
marked by surmounting unbelief due to life’s enigmas …
my heart seeks...

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A walking zomie
A fear at night
A loss of mind
A crazy life

A monged out mind
Afear at night
drives herself crazy
theses sleepless nights....

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Through the elements of fear in faith
you become vulnerable to conversing legends.
The reclining god was stolen from the temple
for a weeping skull.

Red clover will interrogate the blurred sky
for domestic violence of dark themes. Ashes
in a terracotta urn were not involved
of a body disrobed. A prosaic

flight...

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Through the elements of fear in faith
you become vulnerable to conversing legends.
The reclining god was stolen from the temple
for a weeping skull.

Red clover will interrogate the blurred sky
for domestic violence of dark themes. Ashes
in a terracotta urn were not involved
of a body disrobed. A prosaic

flight...

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-lost and can not find 
something too far out of reach 
just need a little 

migraine pains they creep
 black dog images appear 
dry eyes blurred vision 

no motivation
tossing turning twisted sheets 
two dogs that can sleep

 if only I could
 for now I will...

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I cannot sleep
I can't find dreams
Though tired as my body seems
My mind adrift
Thoughts everywhere
I wish I could fly away up there
Let go of the future
Forget the past
Because none of this is made to last
But my brain won't stop
It won't slow down
In pointless thoughts I continually...

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How many words at night just like 
bees in a hive buzz in my head!
“No pulse.. failed the brain test.. apneic,
pronounced dead”, somebody said.

Oh, life and death, you look so much
alike and equal that I seem
to do not care who grants me such
a long-awaited dreamless...

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Classes started up again today. Soon, we’ll be gloriously stressed, and clocked-up on whatever. Our hearts will swell to the pre-med symphony - a frantic opus, composed in the key of no sleep.

In seminars for rising pre-med seniors, (What's needed to get that med-school slot!),...

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Chaos and order;

I reside where the strings do not dare wrap around me. I am the thing that shelters comfortably under your carpet, whilst I wink at the fairy living underneath your pillow.

I am the atrocity that delves into its own existence and allows for...

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I've had a few too many drinks
So I  can't explain quite correctly
Why my eyes aren't functioning
And typing is harder subsequently 
But I guess this is an improvement 
Than the spinning feeling when they're closed
So i may not adequately articulate 
My feelings on the matter
But...

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Sponsor	L MILTON HANKINS
Contest Name	PANTOUM ON WRITING POETRY
Date of creating the poem 7 December 2022


I cannot sleep for an unknown reason,
The light is off, but thoughts are in confusion...
Perhaps, it is my poems writing season,
as poetry is coming in profusion.

The light is off, but thoughts are...

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Night brings misery…
                             adrift in midnight scowl
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