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War Sleep Poems

These War Sleep poems are examples of Sleep poems about War. These are the best examples of Sleep War poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Heirs of Eternal Silence
I wrote this poem about the young men and boys of various countries who fought in the first world war . Forever Remembered.



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Categories: sleep, betrayal, courage, remembrance day,



In a Stolen Moment
In a Stolen Moment
by Michael R. Burch

In a stolen moment,
when the clock’s hands complete their inevitable course
and sleep is the night’s dark spell,
I call it...

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Categories: night, poetry, sleep, time,

Formidable flourishing fiends
Formidable flourishing fiends...

harangue since landing 
yours truly immersed 
in a dream-like 
fiercesome state of war,  
not quite a dream 
can be described 
as a...

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Categories: sleep, angst, animal, anxiety, conflict,

Premium Member He Slept for Sixty Years
     

He slept for sixty years
  then woke up with a start
For the life of him
  he couldn’t tell...

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Categories: change, irony, sleep, world,

Premium Member The Sanctity of Sleep
When in that dark space of overwhelming sadness, deepest grief,
an anguished soul pleads for mercy, some relief..
The compassion from others is consoling but brief.
One must...

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Categories: death, sleep, war,



Premium Member Bottomless Depth
Sometimes, the night is very long-
the mind caught up in endless throng;
a bottomless depth holding fears
the old, the new, tween whirling gears.

A sleepless night- a...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, sleep, war,

Fragile Sleep
In a fragile sleep, I lie
the threads of dreams come
And untie my soul for this mortal flesh 
of bone and mind. 

I drift in deep...

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Categories: sleep, allegory, analogy, art, dark,

Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications
Dream state yields deep sleep personifications

Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to...

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Categories: sleep, 12th grade, 1st grade,

Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus

Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly 
still felt dehydration, physical 
fatigue...

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Categories: sleep, angel, december, dream, good

A Commander Deserted By Sleep
It was noon for Lady Amanda
And in drove a Platoon Commander:
Gerald Rutherford, full Lieutenant
Many years back her Quiet Tenant...

Now Military, still Great Manners,
As though in...

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Categories: sleep, courage, integrity, marriage, war,

Premium Member How To Put An End To War
There is a wonderful sensation parents feel…
it is quite beyond compare.
at first it may seem solitary…
but…
it’s shared by parents everywhere.

It matters not what nationality, 
what...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, sleep,

Premium Member Taps
Eat my shoes
Eat my shoes
Eat my shoes, eat my shoes, eat my shoes
Please -- eat -- my -- shoes
Eat my shoes....

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Categories: sleep, clothes, death, military, silly,

Premium Member What Do You Do
Sleep eludes me
Women, kids, money, dreams, problems
Cycle in and out
Numb to the present
I can't do anything about
Run from here to there
Every place becomes intolerable
Where will...

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Categories: sleep, bird, river, song, truth,

Catatonia, Collapse, Abiding Love
I kneel, bow, and make myself into 
A rock to ask God, 
King of the Universe, 
Give me the amateur. 
Hear my cries, Lord our...

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Categories: sleep, abortion, abuse, addiction, angel,

Insomnia Blues April 3
Insomnia Blues Writing Com 

O Dark hundred hours 

04 a.m.

You got the insomnia blues
Nothing works
You can’t sleep
You stare at the ceiling.

Your mind plays an endless...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dream, sleep,


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