Short Sleeper Poems

lover by day,
sleeper by night.

some times I wish,
the sun wasn't so bright....

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mighty river roars

      sound soothes snug sleeper awake

            rat race off to work...

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That age-old Grim Reaper, as always, no sleeper -
is no doubt out stalking me, endlessly walking....

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Dressed as the hell keeper, trick upon the sleeper,
as stars fade and shiver, dazed skies roar and quiver....

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The sleeper stands
Mind as black as lava sand
It’s beyond beginning
Of the season giving
Time to tread lightly
Swim and be free...

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When dream touched reality 
somewhere where Time ends 
somewhere in the middle of Space
the eternal sleeper 
Eyes opened,
Death forgot...

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Tom Fowler was a chimney sweeper
who was also a window peeper.
Caught black-handed
folks demanded
Fowler be made a breathless sleeper....

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Spiritual winds,
Good dreams filter, sleeper sleeps;
Web catches the bad,


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So in saying
That I’m stuck
Is it my life
Run amuck
Or is it deeper
Something languid
Like a sleeper
Could I be heard
Blasting sounds
And just one word...

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Not easy to attack my body
No fear of the covid still in me
Mask and sanitizer
Sleeper cell of killer
In the lungs I install kaspersky

09.07.2020 Chattogram...

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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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morning sun intrudes
through my bedroom window shade
before alarm sounds
does it know something I don’t?
like missing the early worm?

written October 11, 2021...

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deep is the sleeper
wakes not for rushing water
chronic bed wetter










For contest senryu -topic  On human foibles: Definition, flaws in human behaviour/character.
date 7-9-18...

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to feel a woman 
to taste her divine flavor 
softens a man's heart 
there is no comparison 
perhaps, a cradle sleeper 

Tanka in 57577 Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by The Poet Doctor 
7/6/2018...

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Hands down, the sleeper
Sits on a seclusive seat of hope:

Aging lips survey a feast 
With disdain, and crust at the 
Hair peach crying out for barber Enamel
Atop its push-up chair of
Amethyst and scarlet....

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Slumber mumbles, grumbles, banters, blubbers and blands
Loose lips leak trailers from secret dreams, slumber shorts
Blurted out with candid shout, trembling feet and hands.
Only the hearer knows what said when sleeper talks....

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Angel dusts.
Harmony rusts
Unbroken bones
Oh sleeper of old
 the ancient one groans
Signals in a dream
Untampered and indestructible theme
Ending in grace
Such saved the very human race
Angels dust
Sleep know and pray not rust...

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Deep in thought,
alone in the dark.
Traveling amidst, 
the starry filled night.
Whispers about,
the native tongue.
Who can speak, 
the travelers mind.
Empty motions,
trapping my thoughts,
the key to your life,
is to love yourself....

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KILLER

Saturnine sleeper of the night,
Soaring slowly, out of sight,
Sleekly shadowing the gloom,
Silent harbinger of doom,
Innocent assassin, surreptitious, sly,
Stainless scandal slipping by,
Scything swiftly through the dark,
Hark the herald warning: Shark....

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Betrayal

Wakey, wakey Joe. 
Wake up JOE! We’re at war,
and you’re letting them cross the border
good people, bad people, Russian sleeper cell units
and Chinese spies; or just maybe,
you’re a compromised American accepting bribes
or a communist in disguise?...

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Timely trickle
Softly drizzle


Meekly mindful
Simply fruitful


Rainy weather
Restful dreamer


Window blurry
Raindrops scurry


Sleepy slumber
Heavy sleeper


Chilly charade
Dreamy parade


Blanket warming
Pleasant dreaming




Leon Enriquez
16 July 2017
Singapore...

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I
Neo Soviet sleeper cells lying in wait
Or just crossing the border at varied places
Troop checkpoints or a forest path
Or by HALO jump from a plane
Doing their job changing the landscape
Not chopping down trees
But assassinating those on the list
Culling the ones who were an issue
That Putin wanted dead out of the way...

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Force overtakes me while I sleep
tugging and pulling me deep
At first I ran away and awoke
then my curiusity spoke
I surrender to this force unknown
and look a while to see it's unravelling
tonight sleeper travelling
a mystery after all these years
one of my sleep fears
availing mystery...
oh.... my soul....could it be?...

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The bell in anger thunders at the morn               
The faithful lay in bed asleep in dreams
Believing they’re awake and seeing Christ
Despite the bell in church in anger calls 

The trumpet breaks apart the sky in light
In glory it awakes the sleeper once
Pneumatics are begotten now in light 
Forever now in gnosis over clouds...

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hush little baby
dont you cry
your not the one
 he chose has to die

he chose this fate
for someone new
there is nothing left
for you to do

just sit there quiet
and await your fate
you still have the choice 
to live or die

i on the other hand
am i light sleeper
because i know he is after me 
his names the grimm reaper...

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