Short Sleep Poems

Short Sleep Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Sleep by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Sleep by length and keyword.


Sleep-Less...

Darkness for some
An asylum security
Our dreams,
A mere reflection...

The light of day,
Brings hope to the many...
Form:


Premium Member Why I Sleep

I rest peacefully
A bed made for perfection
I sleep gracefully
Holding love in my stomach
I lay infatuated

Russell Sivey
Form: Tanka

Playing a Role

am  in the street
and i walk the beat
and eat and sleep
as they do
i tell you
i will reload
am just
PLAYING A ROLE

A Dream

subconscious mind agitates
                    happenings screened behind eyes
                    man in sleep watches
Form: Haiku

Premium Member A Four Line Poemangels Stautes

Angels statues upon my shelf
Big ones,small and tiny ones
All these angels keep a watch
When I sleep through the night
Form: Verse


Insomniac Prison

Out of step was I in my insomniac prison, finally breaking out to recapture some of my circadian rhythm.




2-14-18
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Melatonin

Melatonin Haiku By: Tom Wright Melatonin sleep is conducive to bad dreams more often than not
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member When Sleep Won't Come

in the silence of midnight madness
my heart beats furiously



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on June 26, 2022

Life's Fight; and the Fighter

Life's fight; And The Fighter
Through this posture of sleep
Descried as harmless, both.
By Moon. Soft o'er does creep.
Form: Rhyme

Dreamsleep

Returning
to a sleep
reality abandons

You become
what you dream
—so forever sleep well

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

--Jesus--

For B.I.
 
It is that feeling
when sleep is to miss
awakening or awake
you believe the heart
Stops
pounding it with angels
© Collin Lam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Elegy

Bag Lady

she has a cart
fill with art
sleep and eat
in a parking lot
she must be hot
loads of cloth
some call her sade
the
BAG LADY

Beans and Rice

i eat and i sleep
this food get underneat
 its  soul food
its soo soo cool
don't think twice
i love ny self
BEANA AND RICE

Premium Member Eternity

death is a lie
a higher illusion of sleep
but life is the truth 
a conception very deep
greater than all
the riches we hep
Form: Haiku

Infinity

Silver sparkle,
shine away,
keeps me content,
another day.

When you sleep,
I will die,
we'll be one,
way up high.

My Tears

My tears keep flowing

Never wanting to stop

Flowing because of a depression

Flowing, longing for an eternal sleep
Form:

Premium Member Insomonia

Sometimes I cant sleep a wink. So I get up an sit and Think. I Think of all the sleep I am
missing and hop back into bed!
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Flaming June An Ekphrasis

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her round
shape-
an
honest
innocnce
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton
Form: Lanterne

Bones

In a badger trap
Found with peanut butter
Contented to be nursed back to health
And sleep on the chair
Next to the dog
cat

Premium Member 'neath Cloudy Skies

The pale new moon hides 'neath cloudy skies
                                            ~ Restful sleep covers tired eyes
Form: Monoku

Van Winkled

I went to sleep at fourteen
and woke up at forty
A prisoner of reluctance
—casualty of time

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)

Premium Member Haiku 7


village 'holiday'
 rooster breaks a dreamy sleep
 
      rude awakening

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Gore

Lichens of lion's lore,

incipient and trying to score-

ditch it and die in the core,

stick it right in the horse.
Form: Imagism

Before I Sleep

O, look how I shake the clouds
Not to dust the oddments of 
Dreams, but to wish them back, sweet 
As your prurient lips!
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member Kids

two kids night and day
fighting is their very best sport
till sleep fills their eyes



karen croft
whatever contest
Form: Senryu

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