January Sleep Poems

If January was a person,
they would be a force of nature.
Relentless and unforgiving,
but also, beautiful and full of life.

January would be the type of person
who...

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season of rolling horizons
holding life beyond what we see
when winter hangs in bare trees
silver branches bedding down in a hangover of lost green

beyond city limits,...

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Lulled to sleep courtesy white noise of the fan

Onset of first 2023 heatwave
found yours truly lulled to sleep
courtesy rattle and hum
(U2 can dreamily tread 
where...

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the whats-and-whys
of your omissions
have me pondering-wondering

how can you not know
that you torment me
and play havoc with my mind

sweet dreams do not come easily
when my heart...

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Can nothing extend 
beyond something…

Can never be
possibly where…

Can dreamers awaken
the insomniacs sleep…

Can no place
ever be there…

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)...

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Been pacing the yard all day
hungry as a bear
Nobody put out my mainstay
my Kibbles and Bits

Barking loud at the backdoor
I say a prayer -
Lord, somebody,...

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sleep well, o gentle giant
your soft voice still echoes 
through luscious midnight air
beneath a moon that seems enchanted
 
sleep well, o gentle giant
let your mind...

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Doth thou, my dear, recall us still?
Tho' years quietly hasten'd on.
Do doves yet fly near Towne's Mill
and carts clang up'n cobblestone?

Are thou still light as...

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August sings summer's sad farewell tune.
Blossoms smile happily ere they fade.
Birds nap; distant rainclouds gather soon.
Leaves still, then quietly sleep in shade.
August hush in fevered...

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She sleeps
And peacefully,
Breathing so heavily,
Sweet dreaming of beautiful things
Her heart longs for in her waking moments
Now solely in her slumbering
Beautiful in her mind
Wholly content,
She sleeps.

written...

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The weather seems out of routine
December very cold
January very hot
The body hard to adjust 
A sleepless night
And same as the virus 
On and off new...

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rose bush starkly bare
                     snowflakes...

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Nestled under blankets,
the gentle whirring sound
soothes the savage beast
within mine body electric
of one generic, opportunistic,
and wholistic garden variety man.

Within blink of closed eye
yours truly transported
into...

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The deep sleep state, enigmatic
There’s nothing to report
Blackness void; no hues prismatic
No thought we may contort 

From sleep we rise alert
Our vibrancy doth spurt 
Deep...

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lungfish

a lungfish
mined timepiece
unwind years when wet

2022 January 08...

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