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Sleepy Eyed Poems - Poems about Sleepy Eyed

A robin at early dawn

...At dawn still young, a grey throat on the go
Rests on a branch nearby swaying with ease,
And moves from deep inside to edge below,
To please me, or to call the mate of his,
To swing and bend, bal...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, bird, morning, summer,
Form: Sonnet

The Report

...The window lets in an odd solitary ray of light,
Of timid color, a cusp between twilight and night.
It lands hesitatingly on the golden tip of my pen,
and then blasts into the iris of my eye, half...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, work,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberChapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market Jamboree

...Date:  January  2046

8:45 am  in the Damian Domaine 
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied 
While still sleepy eyed checki...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, child, chocolate, confidence, family,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberChapter 55 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Vi

..."Morning time to rise and shine."
The two mothers started their
Own chant "MORNING TIME 
THE MOTHERS SAID 
CHILDREN GET OUT OF BED."
The kids protested throwing 
The Covers over their heads.
T...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, celebration, child, children, conflict,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberSleepy Eyed Cat

...Sleepy eyed cat was ready for a winter’s nap.
She watched her mama carefully, waiting for a snap.
That’s when the book fell to the ground and she knew
Her mama was asleep, so she could be too....
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Categories: sleepy eyed, cat,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberMy Favorite Vacation

...My favorite vacation would have been my very last summer vacation 
travelling to Florida with my daughter and husband was an inspiration

Who knew, not long after we would be hit with a world wide...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, travel, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Night Santa Comes To Town

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On a snowy evening when the cold wind swirls
We sit quietly thinking of the boys and girls
And the excitement the early morning will bring
As the joy spreads rippling while the childr...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, celebration, christmas, daughter, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Dispatcher

...Foggy mists slither through the highlands
As downdrafts force them to the riverbanks
To the naked eye ethereal warm icicles
Among tow’ring long-needle pines piercing sky
From the other side n...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, nature, night, work,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJust Stating the Obvious Poetry Contest

...*Image of Nursing Home provided by Pixabay.

Just Stating The Obvious Poetry Contest
Poetic Form: Rhyme

PLACE: Hereafter Harmony House (Assisted Living Facility)

Mo...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, age, care, community, giving,
Form: Rhyme

The Very Heart of Me

...Barrelling along, squealing tyres evades
disruptive thoughts carousing 
through my unconscious mind
Jerk awakening, with relief, to pearlescent moon
Still there, filtering images of you, as befor...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Longing For the Moon and the Stars In the Sky

...So cometh the morn the Sun shall arise

Breaking at dawn, unveiling blue skies

Those of the darkness hurry away

Not for them the bright light of day,

Sleepy eyed, we stir from our beds

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Categories: sleepy eyed, day, moon, night, stars,
Form: Rhyme

Breathe

...A minor blip
A small setback
A little shake where a shake shouldn’t be
Did anyone see?
And breathe

The train travels relentlessly
Towards the Spanish border.
It’s dark outside and I’ve slept...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, angst, travel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChristmas Dreams

...If I close my eyes its almost as if I were back there again
standing in a field of snow mitted and scarfed to the chin
Front window frosted from our breath iced fingers scribing
yes I can ...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, analogy, appreciation, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Eugene

...He says his name is Gene Pool,
right away I know he is probably American,
there are few to no males
called Gene elsewhere.

Yes I recognize him instantly.
My friends could have all recognized h...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Of Pan and Man

...Of PAN and MAN

Beyond the hedgerow bright with bloom of May
Our daily lives move on with purpose strong 
From where the thrush and warbler sing the day
Soft hum of traffic, plays a different so...
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Categories: sleepy eyed, nature,
Form: Sonnet

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