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The Sleepwalkers
I KNOW I am asleep--I want to awaken, but I don't know how...
so I sleep and sleep with eyes wide open and brain churning,
trying to...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, allusion, introspection, metaphor, riddle,
Form: Free verse



Sleepwalkers
dearest friend among the halls,
i shall answer the dreamer's calls,

to where you stand i long to be,
to wake with you beside me,

we met in night...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, angst, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Frail Paper Etched With Words
Whether poets, showmen or philosophers,
Or mere cowboys who follow herds—
They all want to leave behind a lasting mark—
More than frail paper etched with words.

But the...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sleepwalkers, art, cowboy-western, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Emperor's New Clothes
"The Emperor’s New Clothes"

We write about beliefs
our prayer flags flying 
like chrysallis books on a branch 
of those higher deities we trust, 
submerged, we are...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, muse,
Form: Narrative
I Found Myself
I found myself
Wandering across
A dreamscape
That was not my own;
And wondering
About the many
Dreamscapes of
The wanderers,
Suddenly seeing
That I was wandering
The dreamscape of
The wonderers of
The wanderers
That still wonder;—
A...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, humor, words,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Salvage
"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
Motivational Truthfulness
Spark to light the fire. It’s my life mission to gain the knowledge of what makes people laugh and intrigued by my experiences in my...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, destiny, introspection,
Form: ABC
The Love Songs of Naive Girls
Oh watch now, the naive girls
walking in evening dreams
and stand in dust pools, dry and rocky.
Tell me, my love, how do they stand so perfectly...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, anger, beautiful, beauty, car,
Form: Romanticism
If Music Were, But Mere Dreams
If music were but, mere dreams
What a bitter sorrowful waste this would be
Thus shadows, and to play a note
A meager reminder of a world without...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, hope, imagination, music, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Lies Beneath
What lies beneath the nuptial necropolis?
Sun-glints of memory,
warm rays of kinder days,
tranquil as the soil-sleepers
before they broke the coffin confines
and howled free.
What lies beneath the...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, abuse, dark, husband, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intrance Jh 44
twilight
sleepwalkers
    awaken...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, imagery, journey, magic, surreal,
Form: Haiku
Untitled Dover Beach
Death is the thing with feathered wings
Here on these rocky Dover cliffs
Against which breaks perpetual wave upon wave
    Melting away this earth-stone...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, death, imagination, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Blind Realization To See
I need to quit wasting my time and letting people distract me people who try to Sidetrack me they are not my friends nothing gets...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, appreciation, baptism, faith, growth,
Form: ABC
Vigilant
With you, I gladly 
dance the sleepwalkers' waltz, yet 
still, while on my way 

to descend, picking 
up the thread by following 
Ariadne's line, 

like...

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© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sleepwalkers, dance, desire, devotion, dream,
Form: Choka
Meantime
Just breathe it in -
This side of happiness,
With smoking factories and dust.
Forget the scene
With flowing emptiness
(been mirrored to a hidden lust
In glassy pond
Of dreams and...

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Categories: sleepwalkers, life, love, people, philosophy,
Form: Verse

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