Best Slumber Poems
Below are the all-time best Slumber poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slumber poems written by PoetrySoup members
Snow -A SleepSnow -
a sleep
descending on the twilight streets;
Snow, in silent fields you lie pristine
beneath moon’s glow, a blanket shimmering.
Oblivion serene!
Tranquilly envelop me in
Sleep -
a snow;
the more...
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Categories:
slumber, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dove In Your EyesHow fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...
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Categories:
slumber, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form:
Sonnet
Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi
I had heard the legend of...
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Categories:
slumber, appreciation, love,
Form:
Epic
Soothing TomorrowsOh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...
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Categories:
slumber, emotions, love,
Form:
Free verse
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
slumber, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
March 19 MemoriesMama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama
I’m sitting here
in front of...
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Categories:
slumber, death, faith, mother,
Form:
Free verse
To Dreamland On Sunset's LullabyTo Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby
Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.
To...
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Categories:
slumber, Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Lyric
Winter Sonata"If you're really in love, appearances aren't important. The best house is the one you build in each other's hearts."
Jung Yu jin
Autumn's alliterations amplified an...
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Categories:
slumber, assonance, love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Final FarewellTo my life that betrayed the butterflies~
within my chrysalis mind,
forgive my flawed dialect,
I...
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Categories:
slumber, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
breath to breath -
they say to mend an injured heart, move on
and thus I've done so, time-and-time- again
...
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Categories:
slumber, analogy, lost love, metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
Edge of SilenceThose who do not know the trials of love,
do not ask the state of my heart
I've been left standing in the rain,
feeling like meaningless...
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Categories:
slumber, analogy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Drowning In the DarknessDrowning in the oppression of darkness,
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.
Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...
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Categories:
slumber, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Her RequiemWithin her frail shell, death abides
through the final hours, I remain by her side
fearing a forsaken place of webs that lie in rows
of haggard fields...
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Categories:
slumber, death, faith, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Dawn of My HeartOrdinarily I lie in my bed
mentally grasping for any slender thread of slumber
which I can possibly find to cling to!
But there was one time -
a...
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Categories:
slumber, morning,
Form:
Free verse
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be BawdyCOME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...
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Categories:
slumber, giggle, jobs,
Form:
Limerick