Sleep Poems - Examples of all types of sleep poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Now I Lay Me Down To SleepDistort of sounds strum his bow, sawed heart rhythms;
mischievous fool impels my mind's boredom.
The devil's finger warns and pivots, sedates;
adrift among alleged stolen dreamscapes.
The jester sleeps all day, perplexed I awake....
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Categories:
confusion, sleep,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Gnarled
Grandmother rocks in rocking chair
Her careworn hands at rest in lap
Blue eyes bright she seems aware
Overcome with sleep taking a nap.
Beautiful embroidery lies neglected
Gnarled fingers, painful, no longer agile
Rainbow silk colours forgotten not selected
Advancing years...
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Categories:
cat, grandmother, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting For WhispersHere I shall deeply slumber
Even through the rain and thunder.
As I patiently await for the louder
Of all of the quietest people to whisper....
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Categories:
night, sleep, storm, weather,
Form: Quatrain
SleeplessnessI cannot sleep
I can't find dreams
Though tired as my body seems
My mind adrift
Thoughts everywhere
I wish I could fly away up there
Let go of the future
Forget the past
Because none of this is made to last
But my...
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Categories:
dream, emotions, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
SleepSighing, tossing, turning,
Losing temper fast,
Eyes so tired they're burning...
Eventually (at last)
Prolific snores will blast!...
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Categories:
sleep,
Form: Quintain (English)
Shadowlandthe sun
low in the sky
yearns for a leap into night
as shadows squeeze their way into bedrooms
like shapeless dragons
for children
cocooned to an early bed
staging thoughts like puppet plays
on a wall terrain
of mossy caverns or whispering...
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Categories:
sleep, childhood, dream, imagination, night,
Form: Free verse
Vampire
Voracious blood suckers
Vespertilian beasts
Vermilion eyes, white fangs
Velvet cloak, black en-wrapped
Vigilant for dawn's break
Voraciously gorging
Vivid red neck vein blood...
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Categories:
myth, sleep,
Form: Pleiades
The Cat Lady
Categories:
cat, sleep, together, woman,
Form: Etheree
Enlighten usWhen and how does the tumbler fall,
enabling our shift into sleep,
enlivening dreams we recall,
except for state of slumber deep,
greeted at morn, with a bliss squall?...
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Categories:
dream, sleep, spiritual,
Form: Quintilla
Sleep Baby, SleepLay your weary head
Inside my warm embrace
I'll wrap my arms around you
Within them now encased
Comforted between them
Free from want or care
No chaos or mayhem
Let that go on elsewhere
Close your eyes, I've got...
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Categories:
sleep, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Where do you go my lovelyWhere does our soul dwell when we are asleep,
is something we know not, yet here we are
at break of dawn, emerging from dreams deep,
back to life, where we need to strive and spar,
each day inflicting...
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Categories:
sleep,
Form: Dizain
A DISTANT SPRITEI fall as shadows steep, and very heavy
the outer world of waning stars do sparkle.
My lids grab hold of death though I am breathing.
The darkness still - my fullness faints, releases
a distant sprite - it...
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Categories:
dream, sleep,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
4am
Gentle is the growl of the distant traffic.
The heat of the vanishing night
Tumbles through the wide inviting window
As summer's last hoorah cascades
A tsunami of over-ripe heat
Across the surface of the dusty duvet
Where I lie
To...
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Categories:
sleep, dark, miss you, muse,
Form: Free verse
In DeathDeath comes close in the night
when shadows grow and sleep envelopes, relaxing guards
who snore slumped in corners
their spears and shields useless on the ground,
their dinner crumbs of cheese and bread
just laying there for...
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Categories:
anxiety, death, dream, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Apothecary of Wordsmith Dreamscapes
My sleep is disrupted, badgered
by incessant wordplay,
a thesaurus of woolgathering
in semi-conscious dreams.
I keep a voice recorder,
bedside, to record the tidbit morsels
Lest they're forgotten
when I awaken and make bread
from the crumbs dropped
on my passage through the...
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Categories:
dream, poetry, sleep, word
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Sleep Poems
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