Write Sleep Poems

My internal clock is a bane to me
waking me from dreams of paradise
thrusting me into life's stark reality
not allowing sleep when closing my eyes

No matter...

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I'll be too tired to write
Just aware of a far away hum
Cars wheels, a plane, broken sound
The way my body feels as I lay flat
How...

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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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It's  one in the morning
And I can't get to sleep
So I've tried various things
Like counting some sheep,
But they just won't stay still 
They keep...

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Slumber can wait, as twilight calls
Paper and pen quiet the rage
Transported down memories’ halls
Time’s passage, like print on a page

Through the flowing ink, words appear
Musings...

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In crowded halls, ivy clad, walk the sleepless zombies - the walking dead.
They’ve come to grapple, the chosen few, in trials by pen and pencil...

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The came to me
Again – last night
Those poems that I
Shall never write
They torment me
In light of day
Dance through my head
But never stay
Capture me
In deepest REM
Know...

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It’s 2am and I am awake
Feel like I slept a whole day
Rolling red rivers of sleep escape
I am a poet who needs sleep I say

For...

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poems and sleeping
if they not come, do not force 
let things slide no rush...

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In Love, not apart
faith, hope can restart
--in prayer.
Sensing Jesus' Heart...
Presence off the chart
(He's there!)
My poetry art
is barely a start
to share...

How I am aware
of His loving...

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Her words like silk,
Her kindness a balm to my soul;
Lost in her embrace,
On forgotten streets we stroll.

A spell she weaves,
A peaceful enchantment of grace;
Her eyes,...

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Your beauty is like the azure skies,
The moon in the sapphire night,
The whisper of dawn in the thoughts,
The wondrous stars, glimmering hope
Inspiring my spirit, my...

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Insomnia's result:
poetic tumult! :O...

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Last night I wrote a poem in bed
When I was half asleep.
It sounded great inside my head
(And sure beat counting sheep!)

But in the middle of...

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I got it. Now I know something about you.
I know that you smile.
When you look into the mirror.
I know that you laugh when you open...

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