Sleep Talking
3 a.m. treading water,
bed sheets crest and fall.
The repetitious threnody
of hoot owls
nests in one sleepless ear,
the other is buried
in duck feathers.
It’s a terrible play - this world,
but not a bad musical
if you can whistle.
I forget where I live.
it could be under a stone,
it could be the stone itself,
now I am wondering
what lives under me.
This is
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Categories:
sleep talking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sleep Talking
Wendy was fast asleep
Her husband Warren
Also in deep slumber
Suddenly Wendy awoke
Warren was talking aloud
The sound of Warren's voice
Had startled Wendy-so-
She sat up to listen
His words were scrambled
Wendy did not understand
So she just turned over
Then went back to sleep
Wondering about the dream
Also what he had said
In his sleep talking dream
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Categories:
sleep talking, sleep, voice,
Form: Free verse
Sleep-Talking In Fear
When he's chalking trouble deep,
He'll be talking in his sleep,
If you peep, then you will find
The fear that creeps in his mind;
Grunting and groaning in pain,
You'll hear him moaning again,
Those mutterings won't be clear,
His stutterings seem severe;
He pours out his dreadful dreams,
A sudden shout, as he screams,
That cry of shock wakes him up,
His
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Categories:
sleep talking, fear, pain, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Sleep Talking
Slumber mumbles, grumbles, banters, blubbers and blands
Loose lips leak trailers from secret dreams, slumber shorts
Blurted out with candid shout, trembling feet and hands.
Only the hearer knows what said when sleeper talks.
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Categories:
sleep talking, dream, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
My Sleep Talking Honey
Oh, yes, I have heard sleep talking before.
And thankfully, it was not always me!
Although, I admit that in days of yore
I woke myself up in a talking spree.
My honey at times talks in between snores.
I smile and sit up close with my ear near.
Hoping, of course, that there will be encores,
I listen carefully so I
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Categories:
sleep talking, fun, funny, humorous, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
The Sleep Talking Dilemma
Dilemmas that sleep talkers must face,
Their subconscious thoughts are mumbled aloud.
Dreams with reality can interface.
Not anyone with this problem is proud.
Talking in one’s sleep could be worrisome.
One never knows what dreams might generate.
Sleep talk creates a cuddle-some chasm.
Especially if a spouse interrogates!
Who knows what pain abates when words berate.
Some spouses listening in might just pout.
One
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Categories:
sleep talking, dream, sleep, words,
Form: Quatrain
Sleep Talking
You're "Talking In Your Sleep" again
If ask you about name, you won't feign
Just act dumb unconcerned
You're "Talking In Your Sleep" again
This time a very different pain
Tears from lover that's spurned
Tears flow because I don't constrain
Unfaithfulness you'll not disdain
This sore heart will sit churned
You're "Talking In Your Sleep" profane
Last time I'll hear her name and retain
I
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Categories:
sleep talking, lost love, time,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Sleep Talking
In a shadow box, by the bed
another diorama took shape,
form, function
while she slept.
The whole house quiet with the ever tick tock.
Paper snow flakes in the process of falling
to a cardboard lake, frozen fast in brown fuzz and blue paint
Purple velvet ribbons in sweet white glue
an aurora borealis gone still
and two silver sequins
befitting two moons
blown in
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Categories:
sleep talking, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse