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Insomniacs Poems - Poems about Insomniacs

Premium Member Trash Trucks
... Chirpy birds disturb my deep sleep. Sky pastels reflect in a somber ashen tinge. Sun seems to be lost in a floating mist, cloaking wet slates and chimney smoke. As lamp lights reflect......

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Categories: insomniacs, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Circling the Square
...Can nothing extend beyond something… Can never be possibly where… Can dreamers awaken the insomniacs sleep… Can no place ever be there… (Dreamsleep: January, 2023)......

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Categories: insomniacs, dream, sleep,
Form: Rhyme



The Good Ship Dreamtime
...This is the good ship Dreamtime And she sets sail every night Weighing anchor for her cruise With the fading of the light. Her passengers are all dreaming That they are all still awake Sufferin......

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Categories: insomniacs, dream, imagination, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
It's a Play Dough
...Time warped, perception bleak. Clay bodies falling apart. The shift of stance in reality motions the notion, that inherits a vast chasm of possible retribution. Cracked mood shifts met with ins......

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Categories: insomniacs, anger, goodbye, miss you,
Form: Free verse
Nip At the Cauldron
...-Nip At The Cauldron- My mind full, like the moon outside. My brethren say; '’Sleep well, worthy adversary.’’ As he ventured forth unto his domain, for a final nip of the cauldron before hitting t......

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Categories: insomniacs, anxiety, death, death of
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Escape From Chestnut's Edge
...The split level blinks at Chestnut End under twilight's tremble, ripping me, the oily menhaden bait, from the under boot The Chestnut dwellers bold interrogative flushes him down then......

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Categories: insomniacs, confusion, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Perspectives
...I might have seen, (not on a movie or television screen), but had looked where the mind flickers when I am not there to block the view. In that place, where my dreams see through a dar......

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Categories: insomniacs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Sleep
...Sleep's suspended awareness as nothingness reigns. It's when bedding is mussed and disheveled is hair. It's a welcome escape, anesthetic for pains, And a physical must--time for rest and repair......

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Categories: insomniacs, dream, health, peace, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep
...When you play fifty or sixty scrabble games day you get incessant beeps on your cell phone day and night, weekends, and week days. It is a comfort knowing other insomniacs are up, not......

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Categories: insomniacs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Count Your Blessings, Fellow Insomniacs
...How easily we nod off at dawn ~ though we can't a wink sleep all night......

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Categories: insomniacs, sleep, work,
Form: Monoku
Over Exhausted
...This exhaustions overwhelming It's draining and it's grueling Day in and day out This exhaustion it is ruling The exhaustion shows on time From lack of sleep I get Night on top of night......

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Categories: insomniacs, absence, allusion, desire, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
All I's On Me
...Ideas instantly infest imaginations & it could lead to inqueries From imbusiles with iffy intelligence There indecision will never get em In position to be anything more Than inconsistent, if t......

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Categories: insomniacs, crazy, deep, imagination, poems,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Exhaustion
... A savior slain by restlessness In a land without solace The sun never sets Illuminating everything Descend into madness A craven fool Who are you to seek asylum In the Underworld Yo......

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Categories: insomniacs, anxiety, conflict, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Raving and Misbehavior
...I can dream for us both Time and time again Beneath Strobe Light's And dance clubs Orchestrating strings of ecstatic joy In smoke pulsed Insomniacs blanket's Of desire raving steps Fast......

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Categories: insomniacs, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
...Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism? This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the Univ......

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Categories: insomniacs, love, poetry, poets, ,
Form: Free verse

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