The Somnambulist
Last night I was a somnambulist.
I strolled about in a snowy white mist,
then took to swinging on a branch
that I found upon our 3-acre ranch.
I told my dad, it was very weird.
He said it was the strangest thing he'd heard.
I replied, "I'll snap out of it and clear my head".
I woke up to find it
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Categories:
somnambulist, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Somnambulist
I peacefully live in the mind of my own
Moving carefully and calmly
Behind my house lies a great unknown
I’m a regular there when I’m lonely
I tiptoe, closing the door at command
My inner voice tells me to go
I know the way, like a palm of my hand
With closed eyes, I move along
Passing the streets, where
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Categories:
somnambulist, crazy, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Somnambulist
SOMNAMBULIST
She stood before me in the mist,
That beautiful somnambulist.
Eyes open, yet I doubt she saw me,
In the mist she stood before me.
She was dressed in night attire,
Designed to set men’s hearts afire
And I was suitably impressed.
In night attire she was dressed.
Her feet were bare, he toenails red,
Just as she had left her bed.
She could die
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Categories:
somnambulist, cool,
Form: Quatrain
The Somnambulist
Behold the fate of one who chose the night
for writing poems. Poet fell asleep,
I mean, he thinks he's sleeping. He can cite
Baudelaire asleep or calculate the sheep
that graze on misty pastures of his mind,
call forth a lethargy, sleep of the dead,
oblivion. He vainly tries to find
a rhyme with sleeplessness: gets out of bed
and walks
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Categories:
somnambulist, inspiration, poetry, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Somnambulist
Somnambulist walks
The streets; never wakes
Till someone stops him.
Take him home asleep;
It's much easier.
No memory
Of whom he is
Or wherever
Remains in mind.
Consciousness
Achieved on
His own, breeds
Success;
A clear
Mind.
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Categories:
somnambulist, confusion, dream, health, night,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Somnambulist S Awakening
Somnambulist’s Awakening
the malamute ceiling flying in my hearing
buzzes my acrid thoughts with the climaxed annoyance
when the shadowy light lifted in the nightmare
Einstein in Grayling jumps into nothingness
tasting his own fear
“Relativity, my dear Watson” he mumbles
he touches it touching me.
the Everest with obsidian face calls
“For ever, ever, never.”
is the relativity of tomorrow
and the numbers are
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Categories:
somnambulist, lost,
Form: Blank verse
Somnambulist
after the sky drops.
The walking corpses come out
the veil of night masks
the decay
the rot
of humanity
Plague of the earth.
Found from the ashes
My phoenix we bled
Has she ever
thought love between
us, inside
her, filled up an empty bed.
No longer bereft,
somnolence
and love drowns my
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Categories:
somnambulist, beautiful, feelings, for her,
Form: Free verse
Somnambulist
Walking through an unknown zone where no one is known day’s somnambulist
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Categories:
somnambulist, missing,
Form: Monoku
Symphonic Somnambulist
There’s her sweet, succulent
voice soothing your sorrows
in your ear.
Like soliloquies, soft
sonatas surround your once
dark shadows.
What compares to the composition
of music? Of operatic opposition?
Of triads and miscommunication,
the minor scales know not what to say
when the evening slides away.
You’re asleep, though not dreaming.
I suppose you never do,
just when the sky began to turn white,
it rained again
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Categories:
somnambulist, art, introspection, life, music
Form: Free verse