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Sleeps Poems - Poems about Sleeps

What sleeps while I wake?
What do my dreams do when I'm awake? Do they fall asleep and rise again as I grow tired? Or are they alive all day, living a second life beneath the skin of mine and I just miss the daylight hours of the dream? Are they alive? Do they come to me in glimmering bursts just as my eyes begin to close? Are the dreams my real life And daytime my...

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Categories: sleeps, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Untitled
the daylight lengthens warm wet winds blow gently now old man winter sleeps ...

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Categories: sleeps, spring,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member May Listens to her Guardians Advice as she Sleeps
May loved her bedspread, vintage, fifty’s, yellow chenille Worn in many places, but it still had a magical feel She felt the presence of the former owner of the spread too An elderly lady who had lived to the ripe age of one hundred and two A guardian who advised May while she dreamed and slept Wish my own children...

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Categories: sleeps, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As the City Sleeps
I mourn. For the houses, as their lights die out. One, by one. I stop. I start to see… Through the other side of glass, as the city sleeps at night. ...

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Categories: sleeps, grief, introspection, metaphor, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Brenda Sleeps
[verse] My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long. Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong. For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger. A strange logic, but to reality they were a stranger. [chorus] Where does Brenda sleep tonight? On an underpass out of sight? In a doorway, or a city park? Seeing visions in the dark? [verse] One...

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Categories: sleeps, crazy, family, mental health,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member A CALL IN MISSTEP OF WINTERS NIGHT SUN SLEEPS MOONLIT WAKES-
It was a a close call; Twas a misstep I almost fall; So call in misstep of winters night sun sleeps moonlit wakes; Despite of the rederick; I held on to the positives; Night to dawn: Shines so bright; Lightly drinks the fawn; So call in misstep of winters night sun sleeps moonlit wakes; In the dark sun sleeps; As the awaken moon soul dance; When...

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Categories: sleeps, analogy, appreciation, dedication, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Winter Sleeps
When winter sleeps… ….earth’s colors drain, like falling rain again and again its steady strum, a hypnotic song ...

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Categories: sleeps, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elf Sleeps In Mouse Hole
What is in that mouse hole snoring away? The cat sneaked a peek and tiptoed that day Grabbed his owner’s phone and took a photo too. Of a snoring elf sleeping in a matchbook box of red and blue. The elderly elf had a scraggly beard, he was not fresh at all. He’s a teensy thing, the cat said “less...

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Categories: sleeps, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member While the World Sleeps
While the world sleeps, three in the morn We’re grazed by flame of love Bliss becomes the crown we adorn God’s blessings from above Such is our claim to fame Call it by any name But we are not the same Magnetism leaps While the world sleeps...

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Categories: sleeps, joy, night, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through Sleeps Veils
Through Sleep’s Veils through sleep’s veils my feet battle blankets as comets streak the bleak night ———————————————————— (c) sally young eslinger 8/17/2023...

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Categories: sleeps, imagery, night, perspective, sleep,
Form: Haiku
Devil Sleeps
devil sleeps into white mountains, evil spirits fly in white clouds. August 12/2023...

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Categories: sleeps, evil, mountains,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Night Sleeps Beautiful Soul-
Night sleeps beautiful soul So the night wakes; Our Father places you, asleep; Sleep heavenly, Beloved; I'll see you in the New Day dawning; As you're sleeping this very, moment May our father's anointing; Cover you cascade endowing, you; His righteousness endowing you; Beloved soul, heart is gold Sleep Daughter in your covering; Be Daughter what He's calling, you; And when you're Awaken, on His New Day...

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Categories: sleeps, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night Sleeps Beautiful Soul-
So the night wakes Our Father places you asleep Sleep heavenly "beloved" I'll see you in the new day dawning As you're sleeping this very moment May our Father's anointing Cover you cascade and endowing you Beloved soul heart is gold Sleep daughter in your covering Be daughter what HE'S calling you And when you're awaken On His New Day Dawn Staying...

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Categories: sleeps, appreciation, beautiful, heart, how
Form: Ballad
Where the Heart Sleeps
Driven by the call of existence I was urged to live my story, I left the warmth of mother’s womb to manifest Soul’s glory! With courage of the bravest knight I pulled through walls of safety, with hope to feel the rays of sun, to fill with Love what’s empty! And soothing Love entered the heart to let it know its meaning, but not...

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Categories: sleeps, feelings, goodbye, growth, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O' Father Please Lord God Cover Our Beloved As She Sleeps -My Spokenword
O’ FATHER PLEASE LORD GOD COVER OUR BELOVED AS SHE SLEEPS—My SpokenWord Father God cover our beloved as she sleeps; Do the late winter birds whisper in hidden in naked trees? As they slumber in bitter darkness where do they be? Our Father Embrace Her; You beloved her mind soul; Heart keep her in the essence of peace; Keeping her ever sweet; Father...

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Categories: sleeps, analogy, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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