Short Wakefulness Poems

Night, sleep elusive
Day, wakefulness far from me
A troubled heart cries...

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Gathered but disconnected at their core
Witching hour wakefulness 
On display whilst alone...

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lids war the endless pursuit
of oxygen dispelled by
the gulp of grounds and stirred cream
...caffeine withdrawal

10/8/2018...

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I
dread
boredom
wakefulness
the silence panics
My life has spun out of control
Embarking on a new day is a daunting task now
I must escape from this suffocating prison before I descend further into madness....

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Peace is the first therapy 

Peace is light and best humanity action
Salute to You , My steadiness philosophy
My world axistence member
Calmness and therapy of hearts
My first poems after wakefulness
I praise You .my life...

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As I
slumber, 
a dream encumber,
wakefulness denied
in fitfulness.
What be changed
when I awake
from subconsciousness?
'tis the dreams
forgotten
that matters
to the deaf, blind
unfeeling mind
within,
matters to the within
of things
encompassed in:
As I, Dream
I am....

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Faint-hearted lass, are you where
Your dreams have placed you?
Not as yet? Not even close
In that otherwise camatose
Wakefulness, Day goads?

Then to this fine sleeper's creed
Are not living true:
"Fear not, nightly wise, as far
What unto The Morning Star. *
New day, new life bodes.

* Venus. Planet of Love...

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I awoke with a start without knowing why.
I wandered through the day.
I wondered about it.

It dawned on me – I was on the other side.
I saw the softest light
I felt the seductive song.

The cushions were golden and children played.
Lovers held hands and sighed.
What a welcome, wondrous land.

Heaven can wait my Love.
Let’s make it here on Earth!...

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my unlived dreams
     or maybe past lives
sprawl before me vivid
those elements too slippery
for my daytime fingers
a mutiny of imagination
lusts' games played shamelessly
and holy moments of understanding
entwined in nocturnal intimation
spilling into my undreaming hours -
Oh, how I love to dream,
and experience an existence more fully
relieved the burdens of wakefulness...

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I faced my fear and
Stared it down; much easier
To do in dreams than awake.
When it came to me
In wakefulness, I battled
For ten years but, I still won.

The reason I won
Was because fear is a big
Coward lacking its
Courage; it cannot stare you
Down because it is afraid.
Remember that and 
The next encounter with fear,
Will garner you the trophy.
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Tranquil wakefulness 
blending into dream
Continuum of stillness 
the child within beams

Each moment given
as a benediction
Ego cravings forsaken
one with Gods creation

Receptor in the current
of ecstatic purring bliss
We be in joyfulness content
in a divine entwined caress

This aspect of surrender
wherein form is magnetised
We behold each wonder
agreeable to be surprised

21-September-2020...

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Below the level of sleep
and above wakefulness
your mind-heaven
waits for you to paint it.

So far you have been content,
to sketch and scribble
vague visions
of the possible.

Time to portray what
an imaginative brush
is capable of.

Ask what perfection means to you,
but don't seek it,
let that mind-place
be just yours,
and no one else's idea.

All realities are mind
creating
what it wishes for.

All.
0...

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In a state of half wakefulness, 
I lay dreaming of you, 
Dancing in a rose meadow
Amidst pervading perfume, 
You saw me watching and smiled my way, 
Exhilarating me, 
I joined you in that rose meadow
And we danced together, 
Suddenly, you vanished into thin air, 
And a thousand thorns pricked me, 
I woke up...
                     ...screaming. 



28th April 2023


For Julia Ward's "Rose Meadow" contest...

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soon comes coffee’s steep
morning melody - no cheep
all robins asleep

3:30 - much too early, when i arose, to aeropress the grounds

soon the blessed send
of true wakefulness and blend
if my knees will bend

i will make my way out of torpor unless my eyelids beat me down

catch a dreamy cab
beg a few more zees ~ their fab
go for pillow grab

back under the covers for i’m yawning; not ready for the cockcrow 

3/7/2022...

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An intermittent sound

Alerted my inner ear

Spurring me into wakefulness

As my name formed crystal clear

Theresa, Theresa, Theresa.

Repeatedly in tune

Urging my reaction

One morning in early June

I awoke to hear chirruping

So insistent in bird refrain

Guarding it's perch dutifully

To arouse me was it's aim

My curtains threaded sunlight

Heralding life anew

Another day thus realised

As away my messenger flew....

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I Sing To You


I sing to you secretly
in wakefulness and in sleep
in my imaginings and my dreaming
in the silent beating of my heart

I sing to you silently
in stillness when I pray
in every day and night
in the whispering of my heart

I sing to you my song
in all the moments of my life
in happiness or sadness
that echoes through my soul

I sing to you a song
not in words that have sound
just the stirrings and raging
that is happening within my soul...

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Slip away
Fall out of sleep
Dream into wakefulness 
Try to avoid
That pain is real

Emotions don’t leave
But they’re never really there
It slumbers
It’s in the back of your head like cancer
Slip away

'cause all I can do is slip away
To a place where I can’t feel
I feel so much worse today
I wonder if good things are real

And nothing really matters
I’m not even here
It doesn’t really matter how it seems
I’m a smiling image
Of what I’ve never been
Slip away...

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We step over pencil lines of concern
Unaware of the firestorm brewing in each other
Even broad strokes fail to capture awareness
We see what we see, not what we know
Splash of color briefly entertains 
Like babes mesmerized by glitter
Below the horizon, behind the glow, we are grown
But still suckling from an emerald earth
With swollen mouths our thoughts are silenced
Suspended, societies grip reality with raw fingers as the world spins
Toward the wakefulness of another day...

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