Best Sleepwalkers Poems
Below are the all-time best Sleepwalkers poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sleepwalkers poems written by PoetrySoup members
The SleepwalkersI 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
Sleepwalkersdearest 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 WordsWhether 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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Categories:
sleepwalkers, art, cowboy-western, on writing
Form:
Rhyme
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 MyselfI 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
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 TruthfulnessSpark 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 GirlsOh 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 DreamsIf 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
What Lies BeneathWhat 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
Categories:
sleepwalkers, imagery, journey, magic, surreal,
Form:
Haiku
Untitled Dover BeachDeath 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 SeeI 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
VigilantWith 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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Categories:
sleepwalkers, dance, desire, devotion, dream,
Form:
Choka
MeantimeJust 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