Oversleep Poems

Premium Memberlove yawns at dawn

...Immersed in dreams deep,
some fairies oversleep,
atop fragrant sunflowers
and then they shape shift,
sharing love’s gift;
divine bliss shower that empowers....
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Categories: oversleep, fairy, flower, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGround Hog on Groundhog Day

...Groundhog promised he would never oversleep again.
On February second they sent out the annoying wren.
He could not rouse groundhog from his slumber.
So Mom and Dad went over, in a wagon-lumber.
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Categories: oversleep, animal,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberStart the Day

...Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a decent hour (11:30) but ...
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Categories: oversleep, angst, friendship, humor, school,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberZen Mode

...powers we seek
toys to play with
requires identity
to indulge awhile
in lucid dreams

let’s not oversleep

26-March-2023...
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Categories: oversleep, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Kam Be For the Storm

...My fear is not of Joe with hair of  grey, mind in disarray, coherence at bay.

Main concern not about his overall knowledge lack, or how he doesn’t know Iran from Iraq, or cause he wannabe black

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Categories: oversleep, america, patriotic, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberMy Guardian Angels

...I was deep into a dream this morning…lost within its fog…when I was awakened rather suddenly by the barking of a dog.

I immediately recognized the bark of our dog Whitman…  I should have felt wond...
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Categories: oversleep, angel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCosmically Deep

...COSMICALLY DEEP

Did the garden weep
With the ungrateful sweep
Of their covetous hands? Deep
Was the pit of their pickpocket. Sleep
Thought merciful and kind, allowed not a peep
From their ros...
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Categories: oversleep, christian,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberJoyful Happy Snow Cone Day

...Joyful happy snow cone day.
Laughter. Singing. Skipping.
Every child who has almost perfect attendance.
Ninety-three percent was the cut off percent.

I felt really sorry for the two or three ch...
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Categories: oversleep, parents, school,
Form: Light Verse

My Baby Behind

...Alert all night
So to not oversleep
As dawn ended night
My eyes wouldn’t keep

We managed attendance
A moment to spare
But, greeted the entrance
And shrills filled the air

Quickly consumed...
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Categories: oversleep, 1st grade, anxiety, change,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShe Always Cancels

...It is midnight when I remember a friend is coming early in the morning to play in the studio with me.
I really should go to bed.
Which friend? My husband asks.  
They are all the same to him.  He ...
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Categories: oversleep, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSun Day

...SUN DAY

     A
Sun Day
Beautiful
     A Pick Me Up
     I Sip On My Cup

     Suddenly Clouds Appear
Rain Splashes Like Spit On Glass
HailThundersAndHitsTheEarthHard

I Cower 
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Categories: oversleep, imagination, storm,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWithout You

...Without you, everything I do
loses value every day.
Habitual things that mattered, 
yesterday,
are hard to do, today.

Yoga in the morning,
even my daily poetry,
have suddenly lost their mean...
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Categories: oversleep, memory,
Form: Free verse

Tightrope To Love - Or Asylum

...Walking on a tightrope to you
Strung up between high stakes
Much higher than my fear of heights
But my courage needn’t go to war
When my heart knows the path is right
It’s a simple matter of tra...
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Categories: oversleep, adventure, crazy, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse

How To Be a Man

...Take out the trash on Tuesday and remember the white bags are recyclable; 
Don’t mix the trash with the pig food, we’re saving the world; 
Put the yard waste on the curb on Friday after you finish ...
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Categories: oversleep, dedication, environment, farm, hero,
Form: Free verse

My Bones Will Finally Get Their Cloak

...Memories are walls
desecrated by graffiti of remembrance

well intentioned people
all around  
and me
playing that „warm rabbit“ game
(take a guess who the rabbit is)

it feels like I'm one ...
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Categories: oversleep, life,
Form: Free verse

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