Short Doze Off Poems

..they swirl in swarms across 
the darkening 
skyline,

spiralling round the huge tree 
like a coiling 
vine;


they snuggle tight for the 
night at the 
canopy,

lansijang birds of Bohol 
doze off 
serenely.....

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SATURDAY MORNING

The alarm bell has a modified 
Saturday tone 
And I murmur 
give me 5 minutes more.
A good night’s sleep
A peaceful morning
I doze off.
Give me 5 minutes more.
I get up, make a coffee 
The good feeling continues
The world is wonderful
Until the phone rings!...

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When I'm bored

I doze off and look at small details in the room
A mark on the wall
A stain on the carpet
Or a dent in a table
I don't think they are any different than anything else in the room
Small details aren’t any better or worse
They just are
When I'm bored I don't discriminate...

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This beach is a peaceful place,
where no tropical birds are seen
besides a few old palm trees;
and their branches bring in a cool breeze
towards twilight as seagulls doze off...
and they are afraid of shadows
that only owls and crickets love!
Could these frightening and unfriendly creatures...
be darkness's soldiers to keep Nature at peace?...

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with slender four legs
on the narrow table,
6 whole wheat bread slices
golden knife,
non-rotting wooden food stand
golden bucket
fragrant orange
Beyond, distant mountains shake
golden curtains that are cozier than a duvet
cat sitting down
doze off
a cat front
no tomorrow
someone starving under the table
crumbs
waiting to fall
with the morning sun....

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Dear Traveler,
Set sail at Sunfall.
Let Nightfall set 
You ashore,
Not Sunrise.
For both Dawn and troublous
Storms grow weary
At Nightfall and make it
Their bedding.
Even Pirates, too, do
Doze off as do drunken 
Monkeys in this hour.
Dear Traveler,
Sail now!
Let the Moon and Stars
Guide your path,
Not Sunlight.
For I have traveled
By both and would
Be telling this in ages 
To come......

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Woken in the dead 
Of Night, Given
Myself such a fright
Screams aloud in my head
I can’t seem to go
Back to bed,
Knowing the creatures
Behind my walls
Waiting watching for
Me to doze off
Creepy crawlers all about
Just thinking of them
Makes me SHOUT!
This only happens once
A year and it always
Fill me with such fear
Its HALLOWEEN once again
As the all these monsters 
Become real again....

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The yellow sun rises high in the sky,
All the villagers are waking,
Blue birds singing from high up in their nests,
Weapon grabbing ready for their trip,
Lonely animals getting tracked down,
All men sneaking,
Animal has been spotted,
Spears flying towards the creature,
Squelching flesh tearing apart,
Animal rapidly dying,
Everyone enjoying their feast,
People slowly doze off into a calm relaxed sleep. 

By Chloe...

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Poetry is not a beat to everyone to understand 
Its not a beat to anyone’s ears 
Not a rhythm to somebody’s tarantella 
Neither a ringtone to anyone’s pad

Some will doze off 
Some will ridicule 
Some will insult
Others will walk out with passion

Only the deep eared
largely brained 
Only those with taste
Passion to listen
thirsty of knowledge
Only them will get the poetry orgasm 
Tears will wash away their naivety
Only those with a poetic eye...

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Honestly, I am doing fine
I can stop at anytime
Just because I see Mahjongg tiles in my sleep
And I play so much I forget to eat
One little game becomes two
Then playing a hundred before I'm through
It wouldn't be so bad
But hardly winning makes me mad
So I play Mahjongg even more
Wanting to build up my score
Playing until I doze off to sleep
That haunting Chinses melody makes me weep
Mahjongg fever has no cure
Ancient Chinses game of skill for sure...

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Doze off to a world or rather a place
With beautiful colors and demons with no face
Waters of red and valleys of black
Once you step in no turning back
The skies once blue now grey have been turned
From the ash and ruin with everything burned
And still yet you turn to a child face lit with smiles
Though behind her come the demons stretching for miles
And for this one child you must fight from within
For you are now a father and this is the world we live in...

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If I can,
                sing a lullaby to a crying baby, lonely in a dark cold night,
    		Until cozily doze off in my rocking lap.

  		If I can,
                Hold firmly a falling down soul in despair,
   		And give the courage to stand up again.

  		If I can,
                Wipe a tear from a teen whose youth was stolen    
  		And give her the wisdom to fight the cruel shame away.
                
                This worthless life means something to me...

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When my son was small,
I would place my hands over him
and he would doze off without fear

One day he placed his hands over me.
Tiny, tender hands on my back
soft like a flower
gave much joy.

That moment is etched in my memory
Still gives joy every time I remember it

Most happiest moments of life are small
but give joy endlessly

Collect many such happy memories 
Recollect them as often as possible

19.09.2021
For
Regina McIntosh
A Lovely Memory...

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Sleep, sugar…
Doze off in this song of mine.
I’ll still be here,
Going through my own darkness…

Sleep, sugar…
Wrap yourself in cinder wings
As I cuddle your 
Blazing sanity.

Sleep, sweetie…
I know you’ll heed the stillness 
Of my own blood through 
The words you talk in your sleep. 

Hush, now…
I know you can hear me
Drying up these tears
On the outskirts of our last dialogue.

Sleep, sugar…
Let your dreams flood in…


© 2009 Stefania Carmen Misaila...

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