Long Overslept Poems

It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The Sheriff quickly opened up and beckoned Tom, to come inside
They...

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By watching lots of foreign films I’ve seen a lot of places 
I’ve never been…and don’t expect to ever make it to…
But I’d have only made the time, and spent the cost, to see them...

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Overslept
     by Amy Swanson   11/2008

A little something to make you laugh ;)



Alarm clock didn't ring this morning;
Overslept - and now I'm late!
(but I would have stayed in bed,
had I...

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A morning coincidence, to school we laughed and skipped -  
A cloud that drifted through the sky, from my mind it slipped. 
For many years and then forever, I would forget 
That happy race...

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The Emote Monologues Series

 

by Ashleigh Chaka

 

 

 

 

The steps in my mind


 

Dear....

 

l have written this with due diligence that it gets to you quickly,

For you are the only person...

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I was listening to a late-night radio show from Art Bell
about how aliens from space abducted a woman from her sleep,
it was spooky, creepy and gave me the chills,
finally, I fell asleep and what seemed...

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The Woman In The Mirror
The alarm went off and I jumped out of bed,
I overslept, was running late, and slipped and bumped my head.
I stayed on the floor until I got myself straight,
It was then...

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My Angel Bob is on vacation
That is my predicament and situation
You see for a few thousand years
Hundreds of souls have been in his care
Millions of prayers he sent to Above
Always watching with quiet love
Bob is...

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Strips of pale silken scarf
On the soft crimson light
Spreading from land to sea
After the blackness of night
Amid sighing moonstone of seeded saturn
A crow is crowing to break up the pattern.

Kanya Kumari high monarch’s maid
High colour...

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There is a friend who made me poor,
Not because she stole my loot.
She took away my richest treasure
Because of what I did and said.

I knew this friend three years longer
Than the one I was yet...

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Funny Kids Love Lucy

A few inches pup lay comfortably in
In my tiny daughter's palm
Wooly and cuddled a sweet polka dot
A  gift from my sister with so much of awe
A string round her neck embossed...

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Have you ever given thought on how language  impacts you,  
good or bad it all depends on the words you ruminate & chew 
be careful what you choose to expel when your mouth...

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I believe there's someone out there,
someone new for me to meet.
Someone out there, somehow, somewhere,
someone new for me to greet.
Someone special just for me,
someone to always treat me right.
Someone I'll know is meant to be,
someone...

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Suffering in silence I feel lost and insecure
thinking about all torment I’ve had to endure. 
I remember how easy life was in my youth, 
I thought days were hard; man wish I knew the truth,
that...

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Seeing your face in the morning makes me smile,
and staring at you at night puts me at ease so I can sleep.
I hang on every word you've ever said.
They repeat all the time in my...

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There's not enough coffee for more than 2 per day.
There' not enough ink in my pen and it's only  8 a.m.
There is no time for friendly conversation with so much work to do.
I'm having...

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I've done it again, I've overslept
I've failed to finish my homework
I've missed so many classes
that I can't recall which room
that I am supposed to go to 
and maybe I'm on the wrong floor
and oh god...

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is it a terrible thing that one of the most memorable moments in my life is standing on a streetcorner in a european capital city listening to some dude in a fedora play a bob...

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Deprived (sleep)

The small green light
on the radio dial... 
glares at me in the dark. 
It is like a lazar light show going off. 
I threw it out the next day. 
I bought a new one,...

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A teensy weensy lady beetle
A bitty, pint sized bug 
Seduced by the tune of an old man’s fiddle
Had went inside and gotten stuck

Her little, feeble, fragile limbs
Supported her spotted frame
Until she found a place to...

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We decided to be elegant
Have breakfast outside on the veranda
A gorgeous Florida day

Where is mom?
Our mother asked.
No one knew.

What is a toaster doing on the table?
Daddy asked.
No one knew.

Where is grandma? I asked.
Maybe she overslept,...

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I remember watching
all those women
desperately trying to catch
their dripping youth.
Tapping, smudging, massaging
all kinds of miraculous liquids
advertised by grinning ladies
with blocked face nerves.

I would smirk,
grab a bar of chocolate
and go outside
with no cream on, no hat,
no...

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My brothers & sisters are sleep walking

and soon will wake up and notice

that they’ve overslept.

Rushing to put on their Sunday best

bursting through the door &

running for salvation

but by the time they reach the gate

you find...

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Smoke glaze of Crayola pink
salmons through foamy Colgate 
spat from mouth 
to porcelain sink in the washroom 
nearest the bedroom overslept in this morning.

To look at it, spineless and slow, 
amid hunkering swirl
gurgling down to...

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overslept
playing on the way to school
Class started
after a while
Opened the door to the back classroom
little by little Opening little by little
while pushing in my head
trying to enter without anyone noticing
I just come face to face
I...

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