Insomnia sucks
Sandman is playing my song
Woke so sing along
It’s night time I hear white windy breeze
Making a song with pines blowing trees
Likewise I hear a siren far away
First responders on the move to save
Life of someone in critical need
Listen to there cries and heart beat
Or maybe a baby is being birthed
Good and bad days for them at work
Strange enough the cicadas are quiet
I guess it’s too cold even crickets are silent
Not hearing music or many cars at all
My muse is fast asleep as soon I shall fall
Carry my bags sandman if you can
From under brown eyes in tan hands
Fighting the urge to write until five
When morning birds will sing of light
Green arms of sleep welcome me
Onyx night seems to be beckoning
One more poem seems to creep
Don’t know when my pen will cease
Now I lay me down to sleep
It’s very hard as I want to read
Great new lines of your poetry
How time flies it’s definitely
Time to find a sandman dream
Time to visit onyx dreamland
Inspired by the chocolate sandman
I look forward to a raspberry rest
Was tired three poems ago at best
Good night poets one and all
Write poems or sleep it’s your call
as i lay down and my eyes do not tire
my body does not rest, for my mind test my emotions as it thinks prolifically
for the sandman does not vist me when it’s time for slumber even though i wait with open arms
the tantalizing hope that prescriptions give as my eyes feel heavy then i hear my alarm beep and the birds chirp
the wretched sounds of another sleepless night
my tan fantasy
melting cool but not cloying
sugar surrounds me
Sand promises ever shifting in the wind.
A word given; too easy to rescind.
How can we trust such a liar?
Is this a man to admire?
His minions kick sand in our eyes,
So his true self we don't recognize.
Evil has won out the day
But we can't let him have his way.
Now he's crossed a line in the sand.
It's time for Liberty to take a stand.
February 12, 2025
Each night as into sleep I go,
Oh, may my true love’s face I see.
Oh, Sandman, please do not be slow.
Each night as into sleep I go,
dust my eyes with a magic glow.
In sweet dreams may I with him be.
Each night as into sleep I go,
Oh, may my true love’s face I see.
Each night as into sleep I go,
Oh, Sandman, please do not be slow.
Dust my eyes with a magic glow.
In sweet dreams may I with him be.
Oh, may my true love’s face I see
and slumber steal my grief from me.
There’s a quiet time known as dusk
as the orbs of heaven pass
When departs from forest’s clearing
a pixie of a lass
A partner to the sandman
on babes she sprinkles dust
Though the sandman gets the credit
the pixie’s his brain-trust
First of all she ascertains
if an infant’s sleeping
Then softly through the nursery
to the crib she’s creeping
Preparing babies for her partner
with his iconic bag of sand
The enchanted dust this pixie sprinkles
wings infants' souls to fairyland
Sandman, sandman
Hold me tight
Help me go to
Sleep tonight
Saying zee, zee
Zee, zee
Zee, zee
Let me go to
Sleep dream free
Sandman, sandman
It’s alright
Help me go to
Sleep tonight
I’m fright, fright
Fright, fright
Fright, fright
Make sure you
Cut out the light
Whispers the sandman
sleep is nigh
Tuck away your day
one last kiss, then bye
Dim the lights
breathe a deep sigh
Now let me sing you
a soft lullaby
There is a new villain
New on the scene
Diabolical and willing
To be nasty mean green
She goes around stealing
Sleep hope good dreams
Makes nightmares chilling
Of Sandman's sweet dreams
The Sand Witch is who
I'm talking squawking about
She feeds your mind food
Turquoise thoughts so foul
Protect your maroon heart
Or she will rip the red out
She fears Jehovah God
Yet likes making you scream and shout.
Please mr sandman bring me some sleep
I have tried meditation and counting sheep.
I have drank coffee and hot chocolate to
So im asking you mr sand man what more can I do
I took a hot shower just to clear my head
But I'm still wide awake here in my bed
So mr sandman could you make it fast
So I can close my eyes and get some sleep
At last...
as the Sandman hovers above us
arm around you, bodies relaxed
electrical pulses from the brain surge
my body slips into a paralysis
everything is where it belongs
in the security of next to you
lies more than a reward for the day
i am far beyond mere satisfaction
i am floating in a placid being
waves gently guiding me
i leave with you on the Ameles potamos
the warmth of your kiss goodnight
upon my wedding ring
a ritual so among the beloved moments
you touch me with, fresh warmth at days end
that guides me to slumber
life could not have given me more than this
holding you as the Sandman hovers above
now i wish to hold you in my dreams
until morning brings to me
the dream i love the most
as the sun roars into existence
your lips pressed to mine
3/18 Abilene Kismet
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