Best Slept Poems

Slept with dreams 
To awake with reality
Quickens the heart within


To be in dream again
Being teased with skin
Caressing soft petal lips, drench in dew 
Touching softly
Wetness desires


With tender whisper winds, blowing softly against your skin
With goosebumps tingle, lay in dream
Let finger tips trace your silhouette -
with...

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I slept beneath bridges, I ate from the trash
I begged outside diners at night and in day
No home to go to, no belongings, no cash
And picked up the leavings that folk threw away

I baked in the heat, I froze in the cold
I weathered long winters...

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The sun is up, the sun is yellow, shining bright.
Reflection of chrome, pointed nowhere in particular.
Where there should be peace, it’s high noon.
A breakdown in communication, shrieking bars.

Reflection of chrome, pointed nowhere in particular,
until an itching trigger finger got caught in its snare.
A breakdown in...

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People have learned it is okay to be themselves
They no longer have to follow their parents or any dogma
They can make up their own religion, and no one cares.
People watch television twenty-four hours a day now. 

Children can be disrespectful to their parents,
And it is...

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Terror filled me ere I slept,
Horrors loomed behind closed eyes.
I recalled Your promise kept;
Darkest visions turned to peaceful sighs.



FIRST PLACE WINNER
(For the ‘Lind30’ Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke
2/4/22)
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a notch higher
above the head ovoid
grazing the crown chakra
a moist ethereal implant awakes
signalling embodiment of transcendence 
within the aspect of consciousness immanent

the happenstance pleasantly occurring in the night
animates bliss fixated at the fontanel for an hour
somewhat like the hand of God on our head
wherefrom other...

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I sat at a table
It was a table for one;
There was a mirror
And a pay phone

Seated at the head,
They had all brazenly said:
"This, is ahead of its time"
- Then someone with an agenda 
Started forming the lines,
Behind ulterior motives 
To be the first to capitalize.

And...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito – part VII 

In the interim be quashed, my pangs
The process should be sore slow. 
I will do it gallantly; wicked empire
I will kill her in small installments
Tick!...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito..... By Peter Onyancha
(part I)

I Slept with a Female Mosquito. 
Waking up, Good morning, but goodness!
Stupid lewd fly; family of the blood sucker
Fretful, I study the plumped mosquito
My science talks to me, unfaltering
My eye bulges and I nod, I see,...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito – part IV 

I have gone gnats!
My residual blood is boiling and bubbling
Whole frame sweltering and shuddering
Discolored rage – lend me some wrath
Should I or should I not,
Read her the riot act?
Does she know me any well –
A P.S...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito – part VI

Me
I know you well; yes I do
The leader knows: I deal with data
Stagnant water and you stagnate
Consort zone of your flock
Lazy laying folks, playing, waylaying, injecting  
Laying, playing, waiting, injecting, playing….
This sinful singing will break
A new...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito
(part III)

Honorable Adjudicators.
How did she enter? Anopheles!
Oblivious, she trailed me?
To my chamber, stalker – to my bed, bawdy
Sneaked in my quilt
Skirting – 
The radar of my eye
The aerials of my ear
And the tax of my hand
So, she, at the dead...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito
(part II)

Thoughtless, it perched 
The hollow leech, insolent bloodsucker
Sardonic radiation of the red mine; mine! 
Psychedelic distress; wily mistress
She, nude, proudly poses pregnant
With my blood! I am drained
My blood. Myself. My! Fever
What’s my blood group, thief! I have no idea…
Where...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito – part V 

Anopheles!  I, take my sanity, gaze at her. 
Evil alter ego and Calvary spar; right in my heart
Crash her, splash her 
Red birthright on the white. 
Yes. A dense dark mark of her red. No...

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there once was a man who only slept
over him his family wept
he had had a great fall
now he cant move it all
in his dreams his thoughts are kept...

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