Unsleeping Poems - Poems about Unsleeping

First Thoughts

...First thoughts emerging
From my wakening mind —
Shall it be fear
That fills me
Weak and faint
To face the waiting day?

Or, sleep dispersing
With the coming dawn,
Shall crowded thoughts
Rus...

Two Mountains Crumbling In Daylight

...Eons ago, near two flowing rivers in old China 
Lived an old, white clothed man ninety-nine years of age 

Who glared at two mountains he knew from his long-dead childhood 
Who glared at the gian...

Morning Snow

...
Morning Snow
Written: by Miracle Man
December 13 2020

A heavy morning snow carpets the ground,
now, nature’s tranquility is the only sound.
It won’t be long before nature’s unsleepin...

The Pain of the World

...Saša Milivojev

WELTSCHMERZ ("WORLD PAIN") - THE PAIN OF THE WORLD



In this century withal
Rivers of blood still flow
Bombs echo
Children are being killed
Heads are being severed
...

The Rejoicing Song

...Saša Milivojev - THE REJOICING SONG


Grateful to the skies
And the darkest nights,
To the moon and stars
That are my night’s lights.
Morning and the Mosques
That wake me unsleeping,
...

Christmas Is Always With You

...Great white flakes fallin’ - on rooftops all over town
An unsleeping child - makes not a sound
Outside her window – nothin’ but fallin’ snow
Her candle-lit face – is all a glow

But as night mov...

Delicate Crimson

...The blazing heat  e x h a u s t e d 
                                          me mid-autumn...

I never knew love's kindle could 
extinguish into ash from a sagacious death.
You entered my ...

The Askance Chapter 4 Part 4c

...As we began our ways with Alkaiya in my arms
I knew I was walking towards an awakening reality
And with the undesired reality to come undone
I started to wonder if there ever will be another tranq...

An Evening Prayer

...My day is done, I’ve nowhere to run
I come to lay down at thy feet
Sing to me thy sweet song of love
Speak to me of the heavens above
Watch over me with thy unsleeping eye
Till my heart , my min...

A Clicking Tock

...A night, again, in waking sleep,
Unuttered words that write the wall
From depths of darkness figures creep
Beneath the million fathom fall

Unspeakable the dreams that fright
The squinted eyes ...

Christmas Eve

...Large white flakes falling
Rooftop sounds muffled by snow
An unsleeping child...

End Game

...End Game


Daylight, collected by ancient violins
Breaks a cadaverous rhythm 
From dreams of a crashing heart
And all encumbered the features of its crag
Rages pitiful

It is a sigh, which l...

Midnight Email

...Midnight Email



Night burns both ends of the candle
Full bent upon those wilderness horses
Tearing in their stampede chains

As this scarlet sangria swallows its taste of regret
Heated on ...

The End of Time

...The End of Time


The passing time in a stillness of passage
Blown soft with wanting
Furlongs in the corridors of sighs

Are dreams of mine
Left unsleeping
Repeating the hail of trumpeted cr...

The Underground

...eastside, west side, uptown and downtown
riding the iron rail on the underground
the A, the B and the C
the F, the E and the D
the1, the 2, the 3, 4 and the 5
the underground rail where New York...

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