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Sleepiness Poems - Poems about Sleepiness

Stillbirth Memories of 1987

...Within my own axis,
It did not slant
It did not drizzle.
The void shunned the grey clouds.
Lightning was rare.
Thunder turned mute.
Leaf-tops shook with the sleepiness of
Shameless drunks, cas...
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Categories: sleepiness, community, growing up, sunshine,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAll Gone Out the Window

...All gone, the stripes on mug, and coffee.
Ground up, my morning thoughts. Handle
the wake-up-beauty kiss; source of mystery.

What’s in his cup? Mind’s empty. Fill it up.
I don’t carry but one; ...
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Categories: sleepiness, morning,
Form: Free verse



Sun Ascends

...Sun Ascends

Sun ascends into breezy
Pillows of feathery love.

The earth breathes deeply
While I float effortlessly 
Though sleepiness
And blessings bestowed 
By the loving intent 
Of my s...
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Categories: sleepiness, summer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMind of the Heart

...Feeling not thinking, soul with love linking 
We attained God consciousness unblinking
Feeling, tattooed with hues so deep
The sin of bonding is not ours to keep

Feeling, guided by mystical aur...
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Categories: sleepiness, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membersenryu 2 14 2025

...smallest ickiness
irritates sleepiness
zees intermittent
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Categories: sleepiness, sleep,
Form: Senryu



Premium MemberNacpan Beach

...On Nacpan Beach my dreams take flight 
No past to haunt and no wrongs to right 

Turquoise waves hum songs of endless peace 
My soul drifts and all memories cease 

While on holiday the skies a...
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Categories: sleepiness, beach, dream, ocean,
Form: Free verse

Rather than crank up the heat

...Rather than crank up the heat...

and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."

I bundle with...
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Categories: sleepiness, adventure, angel, appreciation, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBuilding a Rill

...I filled a small trench that yielded fresh water.
Built as a serpentine and with a sharp corner.
A small waterfall sang a melodious sound,
A lulled sleepiness induced when it hit the ground.


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Categories: sleepiness, flower, water,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberSleepiness

...Extreme heat wave sparks 
sleepiness from morn to night 
no sign of waking...
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Categories: sleepiness, sleep,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberDwelling Vespers

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Written: April 3rd 2024
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How I venerate you, O Lord
In your lens, lenity and levity loom
as a benign breeze
Stars doth glitter in a p...
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Categories: sleepiness, analogy, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHide and Seek King

...When I was young, I liked to play
With other kids on my block.
To backyards, front yards, everywhere,
For fun, we would all flock.

Every sport and game we played,
When one kid on a losing stre...
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Categories: sleepiness, children, games, hyperbole, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Autumn

...This astronomical event
Molted out of summer sunbeams
Causes an herbaceous retreat
Personified as sleepiness

More darkness less lightness describes
This astronomical event
More coldness less ...
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Categories: sleepiness, autumn, earth, seasons,
Form: Quatern

Celebrity Stone

...A stone without value is not missed 
Even if it's easily possessed 
But a celebrity stone is given to much time and attention 
Even if it lies under the Earth's bone 
For it always gives a precio...
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Categories: sleepiness, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Your Someday Homework

...In a corner of the deep forest 
where the sun shines 
laid down on lone stump
It's your someday homework

You have to do it someday
You knew that  your someday homework

You do that
If you'v...
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Categories: sleepiness, homework, youth,
Form: Free verse

Tired Bodies Taking Over

...working 12 straight days
she falls asleep on my thigh
no blood circulation, but i just smile anyway
my whole leg will soon be going to sleep with her

working 7 straight 12 hour shifts
my eyes ...
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Categories: sleepiness, life, sleep, work,
Form: Free verse

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