Long Hypnos Poems

Victory at the Hippodrome

They were hiding their stalls out of sight near the race course at Olympia

No signs but everyone knew where they were under cover of dubious propriety

On track for instant wealth and gratification...

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THE STENCH OF INSOMNIA

   narcoleptic deities in charge of the world
   are tangled and detangled in the threads of time 
   
   they are sardonic and bitter...

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I

He came from a land of ice and snow,
It was a forgotten place frozen in time;
And he was the only son of the King,
He was Icelus, a champion warrior.
But the King was unsettled and angry,
He...

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Oh Hypnos lord of all the lands of dream,
    Whose slumb’rous breath weaves eyes with poppy leaf,
    And whose sweet lullabies mortals relieve
Of throes, and shields them from the...

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A written word wistfully wrought into a compendium grim,
Of the darkling ravens beset upon the plutonian shores,
Hither did your shapeless muse invade our psyche and vapid minds dim,
Edgar has retired his effete quill yet still
it...

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My racing brain doesn’t stop
It is fast, I wonder how long it will last
It moves in every direction,
Without any clear destination
It is past twelve
Maybe I will sleep at one
Tick tock, tick tock goes the clock
My...

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The story of the world is an absorbing dream. 
Though longer than our lives, it sometimes feels as brief
As our own rapid days, whose swiftly flowing stream
Bears memory downstream: a light and helpless leaf. 

Our...

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The scratchy fog will not alight,
upon the eye's shield to the night.
On upward drafts of rumination,
Hypnos whirls past his noble station.
Like Greeks concealed inside the steed,
thoughts - swords drawn - wait to be freed,
upon a...

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Assaulting me!  The darkness comes to be
    in devil’s guise. Phantom haunts my mind;
  in sleep paralysis I cannot flee -
insanity bleeding through ruined rind.

I’m humbled now and at your...

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I was a starving minion, 
questing after the deep highs 
of luscious laughter 
that slip off slumber's linen wings,
pleasantly removed 
from the pain of wanting
what can not be owned

and so I begged asylum of Nyx
and...

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Sometimes, I wander outside in the hours of midnight.
And boy,every time I'm welcomed with a strange sight.

There is this ominous silence, no mewling babies and howling banshees.
And the moon looks like a shining, white pearl...

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The twilight veils
the summer sky,
as waves begin
terrestial flight.
In crescendo, the conga
chants a march-
luring my feet
to join the dance.

Being blinded by darkness
of almost night; 
for a minute, my ears,
have been my guide.
Though, soon enough,
I saw this...

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I heard the squelch of death again
A night as black as ink
Outside it was torrential rain
Inside the boat began to sink



A row of faces one by one
Beside the bed, red apples
By my side your neck,...

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I hope to live a little longer.
A little longer, and a bit stronger.

Is my soul getting weak? I ask. 
But to whom? I tremble.
Souls I know, hide behind a mask - 
Dreaded, I fall and...

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if i could be 
i'd be the protege to Aphrodite, the arrow 
in Cupid's bow, the war for Ares and the
underworld for Hades or just Persephone

i'd be the sky where Zeus played, the rage 
inside...

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growing on stalks that become brittle
holding form right up until disintegration 
effort made to square everything up
make sense of it through staring eyes 
   stopping only when Hypnos 
    ...

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To Sleep


     As relentless day slips into the night,

     Uninvited shadows from darkness creep,

     And in the quiet evening’s failing light
 
 ...

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