Shuteye Poems - Poems about Shuteye

The Key is no Key

...The key to happiness is to stop looking for such key
Cause no such key unlocks the happiness you seek
Your “key” is to shuteye for a key 
Make your key to your lock
To expect is to dream
And to ...

Death and Destruction

...Having been a journalist for the past forty years, now ready to make my final accord, I had to cover this one last story.  My days have been long, and my shuteye has been short.  In a small village w...

Shuteye

...whales sleep eerily
vertical in dangling pods
sea otters hold hands...

Counting Sheep

...During midnight hour thoughts run deep
into my mind anxiety creeps
world is quiet silence reigns
Eluded by sleep yet again.

Dark night does not comfort me
Worries gather I did not fore...

Got Sleep

...Nothing more intimate than sleep
wake before dawn, go downtown
prepare for tomorrow, come home from work late.

Most cities prosper undisturbed
sleeping peacefully
while the tide goes out.

A...

The Neighbor's Tv

...I’m sleeping in the living room*
Which shares a common wall
With my next-door neighbor’s bedroom;
Shouldn’t bother me at all.

But she must be hard of hearing
‘Cause her TV’s more than LOUD.
I...

Most Restful Sleep Since Being In Utero

...Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got extinct,
whence consol...

To Sleep

...Sleep's suspended awareness as nothingness reigns.
It's when bedding is mussed and disheveled is hair.
It's a welcome escape, anesthetic for pains,
And a physical must--time for rest and repair...

Argh Infamous Pinwheel On Macbook Pro 2009

...Argh... infamous pinwheel on macbook pro 2009

alas and alack
myopic staring eyes
bulge out their sockets,
cuz yours truly taken aback
I espied sight more frightful,
than rookie dazed chess pl...

Cold Feet

...Enervated and energized after cold shower
the perfect tonic to gin body though o'clock
wee hours August thirty one two thousand
nineteen - natural buzz to stave off relished
sleep, thus refueled ...

Oblivious Transit To Astral Sphere

...Transcendent meditative
ascendance assuaged
deep sleep grogginess resultant
resounding residual REM cycles
profound dreams decreasingly faint grip
fading fast, yet...

after effects heavily li...

Dentist Appointment

...Sunk back
almost
comfortable
stretched out
as an afternoon hush
hovers like a warm blanket

Lots of time before
my dentist appointment
feels great to sit incognito
get a bit of needed shute...

Awakening From Pleasant Dreams

...Awakening From Pleasant Dreams...

No matter scant details recalled upon 
arising from slumber, this even though 
submerged into deep unconscious - (as 
ifmine being plunged bajillion miles 
su...

The Restorative Power of Quality Sleep

...Asper sweaty palms, 
and other physiological ills
nothing beats infusion of
spine tingling electrifying chills -
experiencing psychological nirvana,
(nope NOT even 
prescription medication pill...

Quirks For Me

...Oh, how can I describe you, ME,
     When that's the person I can't see?
I look and look, and look some more,
          Then ... lose what I was looking for!

You see, my mind spins on, no e...

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