Bleary Eyed Poems - Poems about Bleary Eyed

... Written: April 28, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama ******************* When cruelty becomes a badge of honor empathy transforms into an act of defian......

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...Off Day I try to write And describe the colours of spring But apart from my shoulders Knotted and tight, I can’t seem to feel - anything. The sun may be smiling bright But in my head, a heav......

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...CONT from Part 2 Snot Man Blue Part 3 Sick with guilt Snot Man Blue quit his job there. Sick with failure he ran away. He couldn’t face his parents there or anywhe......

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...Unlikely Mike by Michael R. Burch I married someone else’s fantasy; she admired me despite my mutilations. I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine. I hid my face and changed its conno......

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...Nights infusion bleary eyed rivals in Soho tweed Pharaohs joke was here Denim clad oxymorons with spotlight eyes Archways lean close as sticks befuddle their spark of epiphany A jewelled sil......

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...My Heart I am a glass half full Sometimes sloshing over the edge A temple for fireflies, sand dunes Water by nature, that cuts deeply Beneath the reeds, flowing fast Rapids, sometimes v......

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...Ivy-covered sheepskin, firmly in hand the confident graduate, square-jawed and tan Pulled offers from prestigious start-ups all over the land a year later he played lead guitar, hat in......

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...The Laws of time seem elastic In the long insomniacal night That expands into an eternity With no end seemingly in sight. It’s half past Wednesday week By the real world’s steady clock But in ......

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...Hungry and bleary-eyed I lie on my bed late in the afternoon. Rain pitter-patters on my window panes, Thunder rumbles overhead. A half darkness envelops the room. I wish to sleep but repose elud......

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...I strolled beneath a barren wood, feeling maligned, misunderstood. Late night attempts at cloning sheep bore little else but lack of sleep. My research grant had been denied, so I, exhausted, ......

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... Those gold ornate gates opened wide, and on wings she flew up above; to join in heaven her true love. And we who loved her on earth cried, her name is Connie Marcum Wong; I kne......

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...You came into our lives a spark. A blur of chestnut red, Igniting us with canine love, And nestling by our bed. Chasing swallows in the park That teased you in their flight, Relentlessly ......

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...Woke up this morning, looked at the clock Bleary eyed, thought it read 5:23 Way too early... turned over and went back to sleep Woke up again which seemed like 10 minutes later The clock ......

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...Slaughter amongst the slag heaps Bodies bowed over barb wire Screeching, screaming artillery arching above soon to descend amputating limbs shattering skulls blood and brains splattering stai......

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...Daybreak, the sun breaks into his room. A pulsing headache. He moves towards the bathroom, bleary eyed he stumbles. A dead body on the floor. Panic. He looks at his hands, but they are clean. ......

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