Things I Almost Understood
...A soggy teddy bear
lay on the shoulder of the highway—
head twisted, limbs askew,
its damp fur clinging to gravel
and its sightless eyes beseeching heaven.
I watched from the backseat,
wonderin...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, childhood, high school, imagery,
Form: Free verse
I Laugh And Smile
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When somethings so right
We laughed like children
We were as big as the Universe
We laughed at the sun and smiled at the moon
Choosing to return your smile on this April day
Something feels...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, color, encouraging, universe,
Form: Epitaph
Through thinned forests where the dew of time is carried, the ancient chant of desire roams
...Through thinned forests where the dew of time is carried, the ancient chant of desire roams,
And shadows of men, like spirits in festivity, stretch their endless palms of wanting.
Sleepwalkers amon...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Emperor's New Clothes
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"The Emperor’s New Clothes"
We write about beliefs
our prayer flags flying
like chrysallis books on a branch
of those higher deities we trust,
submerged, we are always...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, muse,
Form: Narrative
Categories:
sleepwalkers, imagery, journey, magic, surreal,
Form: Haiku
Hypersomnia
...Every so once in a while
I'm telling you this with no guile
I simply have to escape
Well rested from the night before
at least in hours of apneic snore
Found I in pitiable shape
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, beautiful, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Salvage
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"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
Anais Nin An
..."We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anaïs Nin
Comprehensive thoughts arrive in the dark...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Sleepwalkers
...She did not recall those nightly forages
Those midnight snacks had packed on the pounds
From her eating habits she couldn't disengage
She needs to solve the mystery of those midnight rounds
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
Goodmorning Sleepwalkers
...Goodmorning sleepwalkers
The restless night now stands behind you
Those long hours of darkness are replaced by the light
May the warmth embrace you
After the chill seeps to your bones
You shuffl...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Blind Realization To See
...I need to quit wasting my time and letting people distract me people who try to Sidetrack me they are not my friends nothing gets done willpower will dwarf any negative Force or energy so Point your ...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, appreciation, baptism, faith, growth,
Form: ABC
Vigilant
...With you, I gladly
dance the sleepwalkers' waltz, yet
still, while on my way
to descend, picking
up the thread by following
Ariadne's line,
like vigilant ones,
I would rather desire...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, dance, desire, devotion, dream,
Form: Choka
Motivational Truthfulness
...Spark to light the fire. It’s my life mission to gain the knowledge of what makes people laugh and intrigued by my experiences in my never ending and changing life. I want people to know that they do...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, destiny, introspection,
Form: ABC
I Found Myself
...I found myself
Wandering across
A dreamscape
That was not my own;
And wondering
About the many
Dreamscapes of
The wanderers,
Suddenly seeing
That I was wandering
The dreamscape of
The wond...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, humor, words,
Form: Alliteration
The Sleepwalkers
...I KNOW I am asleep--I want to awaken, but I don't know how...
so I sleep and sleep with eyes wide open and brain churning,
trying to wake myself, you, all the sleepers as they dream that
endless ...
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Categories:
sleepwalkers, allusion, introspection, metaphor, riddle,
Form: Free verse
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