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Fitful Sleep Poems - Poems about Fitful Sleep

The Other Side of the Pillow
...In the dark of night, where dreams bear bloom, and silence reigns in my shadowed room, my pillow waits, serene, composed, awaiting my sleepy head to doze. Beneath my head it yields its form, t......

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Categories: fitful sleep, dream, funny, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too much of a good thing sniffed
...The farmer looked on sown fields with dismay, Be-spotted with tiny holes in despoiled array. Each spot where mice had dug up and eaten. Wheat seeds sown with mice-controls well beaten. The farm......

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Categories: fitful sleep, farm,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Delusion
...“ Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn “ Relentlessly I pace around the room, like a caged lion, dreaming of vast forests, yearning for savannah grasslands, vag......

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Categories: fitful sleep, angst, anxiety, betrayal, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Expertise
...Aren’t we all repository of talents many? Some of them may be hibernating snug. But they wait eager to wake up, At the opportune time like dormant buds, At the first fond touch of sp......

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Categories: fitful sleep, desire, engagement, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Posthumous Humus
...Four dead Jesuits, now confirmed as child molesters, but when alive these monsters’ crimes, were covered in obfuscation. And when they passed, were the Last Rites recited and are they burie......

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Categories: fitful sleep, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tethered To a Moment
...The chance was there—then quickly snatched away, but that moment became the reason she sustained hope. Her captor had failed to lock the cellar door one day. The key would turn moments later, but ......

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Categories: fitful sleep, endurance, fear,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Old Man
...They visit him every night Ghostly apparitions without fright For he knew each and every one Talking together until the night was done And so he sleeps through the day In fitful sleep until th......

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Categories: fitful sleep, death, spiritual,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Get Over Yourself
...dread weight portends a churning belly-ache the day sinking ...... relentless countdown to the frowning hours before the night of fitful sleep awakes disturbed that day is now here ............

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Categories: fitful sleep, psychological, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightly Prayer of Love
...I bequeath to my heart none else then pure love and in the meantime all that is me around me and inside me I entrust to my Father in heaven; Each and every thought I think, all feelings I ins......

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Categories: fitful sleep, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member April
...April, you fetch flowers of spring to rise; Lacing in verdant green and fruit to reap. Gardens seed bloom, whist bees and butterflies Saunter by tippling passion nectar deep. Renew daytime le......

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Categories: fitful sleep, april, butterfly, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Thesaga of Suzanne the Snowflake and Cyril the Racist Ware Squirrel Part 2
...And there the story might have ended But the bite on Suzanne's thumb Throbbed and became distended, 'I must say, I feel a little rum', she said and lay down on her bed, but as she fell asle......

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Categories: fitful sleep, allegory, analogy, animal, england,
Form: Light Verse
They Too Would Weep
...He opened his box on Christmas morn That wondrous day when Christ was born, But it was no gift... he softly wept, It was his bed, for here he'd slept. His belongings in two carrier bags ......

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Categories: fitful sleep, christmas, lonely, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Came For Her On a Sunday
...Death came for her on a Sunday. I have to fry the chicken for church, she argued. Death hung out in a closet with mildew and stains. She tried on clothes the victim would not need any more. Came......

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Categories: fitful sleep, death,
Form: Free verse
Siege At Baker Ranch, Part Iii
...III. It was near midnight when they came again, four warriors armed all with flaming brands, Myron bolted up from a fitful sleep, and poured out bullets as the horses ran. He managed to shoot ......

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Categories: fitful sleep, america, conflict, courage, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Impaled
...and again it stabs, a flickering flash like Macbeth’s floating dagger: invisible, hallucination, a silent pain. Like a nettle, a rose’s thorn, it twists and curdles into rotten barbed wire. ......

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Categories: fitful sleep, corruption,
Form: Free verse

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