Short Tossing And Turning Poems

Secrets hi hides.
Tears you cry.
Lies thrown in your face. 
Tossing and turning. 
Your sleep is lost....

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All Thur the night
Feeling couldn't fight
You were in my head
In my bed 
My body was burning
I was
TOSSING AND  TURNING...

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you was in my mind
could leave love behind
my head in bed
was bruning
over you am so blue
for you am yarning
am
TOSSING AND TURNING...

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sleepless

restless morning yawns
 twilight tossing and turning ~
  insomniac moon

8-30-21
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Contest: Bite Size Poem No 19...

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could sleep
my mind was deep
thinking about you
it was passion too
i was hot to trot
my soul was love burning
LAST NIGHT
I WAS TOSSING AND TURNING...

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Can't sleep keep tossing and turning
Always thinking I'm living and learning
  I just can't figure out
  What is it about
My heart it won't stop yearning...

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That night once again tossing and turning,
having very badly a sleepy yearning,
like little Bo Peep,
missing some sheep,
sheep hiding thinking its time for a shearing....

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Night in the night
Darkness in darkness
We are in the pith.
Hunting each other is approved .
We suffer, two trapped snakes!
Tossing and turning in the core 
In search of love....

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When I turn over
And you’re not there
I hate the thought of it
You and me
Separate tonight
I search for your scent
But I’ve washed it away
Tossing and turning
While looking for your hold...

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Far into twilight, restless
   Ceaseless tossing and turning
Anxious mind wandering, sleepless
            I am insomnia



*Poem is also a personification*
Date written and posted: 04/19/2019...

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B ecame uncomfortable when the sleep number slumbered,
E nding the comfortable cushion under my neck, back and tush.
D ecidedly, my pillow is also dead to me, with all its tossing and turning.

8/27/2019...

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Sleepless and cursing the powers that be,
Tossing and turning in wee hours, me.
But what's the use in trying to fight it?
One might as well be trying to write it.
Mayhap morning Muses will oversee....

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tossing and turning
                                             the night seems endless and dark
                                                  light hides behind dreams


Brians Triplet contest
12/5/11...

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Evil surrounds our everyday lives
Like a comforter on a hot summer night.
Smothering
Tossing and turning
Trying to decide
Debating and wondering
Uncomfortable
Until
Finally kicking free
Heaving a sigh of relief
The right choice is made....

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Go back to sleep, sweetheart. 
Get rest, roll over, close your eyes and 
Be still, my love. 
Your tossing and turning
Your restless night wanderings
They disturb my dreams. 
Don't forget we share this same bed
Though thousands of miles apart....

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Three in the morning and again I dream
of waves and windblown sails, driving us on.
A petulant ocean, its mood would seem 
somehow to echo mine, awaiting dawn.
Tossing and turning, creaking and groaning,
it’s an old man’s bones I hear, bemoaning....

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Three in the morning, and again I dream
Of waves and windblown sails, driving us on.
A petulant ocean, its mood would seem 
Somehow to echo mine, awaiting dawn.
Tossing and turning, creaking and groaning,
It's an old man's bones I hear, bemoaning....

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The Time Has Arrived

The time has arrived
There’s nowhere to hide.
Tossing and Turning
Must tame the yearning.
Feet planted firmly in midair
Facing the horizon with a stare.
Desperate to stay
Yet, wanting to run away.


				--Michael Crabb...

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The weeks pass on as I lie in bed
Too weak to even move my head
But here I lie trapped in my sorrow 
Not knowing the emotions that are of tomorrow 
Tossing and turning as I try to sleep
Alone as I lay there and weep
The days pass on and eventually weeks...

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A restless night sleep
A restless night sleep
All the evening long
A restless night sleep

Tossing and turning
Tossing and turning
Sleep is hard to seek
Bess wakes up tired

She looks for a sale
For a new mattress
Going store to store
Until she finds it...

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The day is long
 the night short
filled with restless dreams
 crisscrossing imagery
 of fictional and unfamiliar parties
trying hard to encumber life
 by restrictive containments
 anxious in the tossing and turning,
fearful wakening
 only to find
 it is reality....

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Could not sleep last night
So many thoughts entering my mind
Pushing them out to no avail
Locked in sleep limbo
Tossing and turning
Thought I listened
Thought I helped
Not sure
Maybe 
Understanding O.K.
Person hearing my words who knows
Lost one already
not again...

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When Jesus said 
he loved the little 
children,
did he forget that I was impossible 
to love?
When all those children fit like 
A glove in this sea of likelihood, 
I'm lost in a mitten
tossing and turning in no man's space.
Crying for help.
But noone will 
ever 
ever 
hear....

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Finally I wake

tossing and turning
I try to sleep
admit the terrible night mares
that haunt my dreams
finally I wake
ready to embrace my fate
telling the dangerous delusions
to go away
as I embrace
the dawning sun
confident that I will find
the time and grace
to overcome the terrible fate
that await me every date...

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River of Dreams

Wave’s flowing through your mind, pictures in black and white,
Graphics ever changing, like the TV channels at night,
Tossing and turning in silence, a boat ride’s endless plight!

Written By: Sarita A. Milliner © 2/18/16
Submitted for: River of dreams (three liner poem or 3 monoku) - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Poet Destroyer A...

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