Short Dreamless Poems

"where do dreams come from?"
he lifted his head, perplexed,
and replied: "nowhere."...

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urban noise. . .
2000 mile drive
to Lake Ontario
dreamless sleep in tent
till generators charge...

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dreamless leaf’s twilight rustle...
last mile requiem

August : 13, 2020
Contest : 2-Line Poem-Ziket
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...

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The painful night fell

Tears dripped on the pillow-


Scared dreams run away!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     25 April 2021...

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A life without dreams resembles the night sky which the glow of stars is missing!







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
         22 July 2016...

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Keep the children 
out of schools…
stop teaching them golden rules –

mold them into ignorant fools – 
raise them gullible, compliant – 
dreamless and silent…....

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Such a dreamless sleeper was Dan Doff
Snoring each night, he slept like a log
Suddenly, it occurred to him
Just once, he needed to dream
But poor Dan knew not what to dream of....

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For now
they are with me,
in dream filled sleep.

My arms may not always carry you,
but my heart will always hold you...

...til you join me once more in the dreamless sleep....

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death’s a dreamless sleep

birth is life awakening...

babies wean off hope


(Senryu)


March 18, 2019
Writing Challenge 3- March 2019 - Senryu Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart...

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Death sets free
Odd last spree


Ply pointless peep
Sense silence steep
Dreamless death deep

Frowns flooding fast
Buzz breaking blast
Loss lingers last

~~~~~~~~~


Leon Enriquez
10 January 2021
Singapore...

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 UNSUPPORTED CODE NIGHT MOVES

wrapped in a shroud
pread-eagled man
lies… dreamless
in the unmade 
grave of his bed
beams glare on his
mooning face
as his hands clench
on the nights long
throat

©Kim van Breda—August 2015...

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Why are you walking,
It's reserved for the Dreamless,
You have wings don't you.

The Dreamless wander,
Softly so the dust won't stir,
Silent as shadows.

But you're meant to soar,
Shake the earth and split the sky,
Little fire just fly....

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I’m unwanted and un-kept
My eyes alone show I’ve wept
A second chance should fate allow
A dreamless sleep is best for now
Taken in your hands of care
My need no longer to beware
Silent tears you shed for me
No pain I feel…at last I’m free....

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I dare not sleep and dream again;
For I cannot bear the cost--
Reminding me, and cruelly so
Of what I had, then lost.

How blessed I would dreamless be,
That I might long forget--
To sleep bereft of reverie,
And absent all regret!

--Mel...

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Sleep;
He sleeps,
Peacefully
Dreamless and still
Rising chest, deep breaths
Stroking his curly hair
He does not stir but yawns, sighs
Mouth open, tongue loose, he dribbles
I smile to myself, how angelic
I lean down and touch his warm lips with mine...

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wreathed in silent torment
waking moments snap
at each breath of air

gnarled
echoes of pasts filter by

sleep eludes
weaves and teeters
numbing the weary mind

awake each thought
like splintered thorns
assault the dead of night

dreamless

devoid of hope
shorn of light...

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When being awake
is hard and unbearable.

When in restless dreams
peace is fleeting.

What else is in there to live and hope for
if not only to be eager for your own demise?

The planks of wood may come and cover me
forwhy about this life I have nothing else to say....

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In the hollows of a long and dreamless night,
The soothing beauty of a dawning twilight
And tired sighs of a homeless train passing by
Keep me company in the loneliness of this high
And I speak aloud to the crowd of whispering trees,
“I’ll live to find peace before I die from this disease.”...

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Utopia's Slippery Slope Continuum 

        Trees of pink snow bloom
     by the lake when Spring is full
           Young warriors dream

                          ...

               Old warriors walk
   Through dreamless trees of concrete 
                 Modernization 


3.8.2017©deborah burch...

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to be
a human being
is so very small a thing
to be

while inside of me
all of reality
i am
i am
subjectivity

(infinite 
finite) 

liminal days
eternal lives
visceral 
guts pouring
out from inside

it all starts to collide
i think maybe that's why
we must sleep
dreamless
sleep
we must die...

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Lulled into a drugged dreamless sleep, 
She slips into shadowy sighs, 
Lost beyond her reach, somewhere deep, 
Unmoving, like a log, she lies. 
When she wakes, weariness remains, 
Is there a way out of these chains? 


1st June 2023


Bite Size No. 65 poetry contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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A lifeless wasteland 
With no escape
No sound
No single date
Frozen solid nightmares prayed
Bare bones pricked, cracked and blazed
Phantom birds wouldn’t chirp
Silent stupors waited still 
For life to disappear 
To break a dreamless state 
To stop and freeze 
To disappear

11/27/22
Pick-A-Title, Vol 33
Edward Ibeh...

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Tired cold tar stained fingers,
cigarette of mostly ash,
the fog of ancient thoughts hang,
Eyes closed dreamless void.

The radio hum of white noise,
whispers like seraphim,
tapped ashes and empty prayers.
Dissolving to heaven. 

"Awaken you tired servant, 
can you spare a light for me?"
Eyes closed to flickering flames,
speaking to nothing....

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consciousness that makes us aware
steering us safely through dreams
enabling discernment in the waking state
and facilitating emergence from trance
of enigmatic inky black dreamless sleep 

what is the source of this consciousness 
closer to us than our own skin, oh hermit
and how may we become one with it
without any drop in our flowing awareness?...

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When far away
erasing footsteps
your silence is my voice-
the moment of recline
my buoyancy
blessing you with sleep.
So sleep-
but this time
refrain from flying
or standing at Earth's center
breathing in and out
fiery travail.
There are magic swords
and dragon wings
wide as eternity
but only in dreamless sleep
can I quietly hold
and love you....

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