Unslept Poems - Poems about Unslept

Eyes Behind The Poem

...Ink bleeds whispers, secrets kept,
A story on paper, unslept.
Words like windows, veiled, and thin,
Reflecting a soul held within.

Eyes, unseen, guide every line,
A silent observer, entwined.
...

May the Angels Whisper You Goodnight

...In the dampness of those unslept sheets I find my solace 
between the linear moments when you held my breath 
and the last time we said goodbye:

Awakened by the thunder every calm fiber ...

Unholy Matrimony

...“‘til death do us part” the vampire once said
 to his pallid bride, her throat blushing red.
 The guests grew squeamish at what they just saw,
 filled with great dread and primordial awe:
 as the...

Dusk and Love

...The day subsides, the sun descends,
A massive disc dipping into the horizon.
The tides ebb, waves lap the shore
Dusk holds sway: I fall into deep thought:
I wonder about the whys and wherefores
...

Dreamscape In Moon

...From the edge of the ebon night sky,
under the engulfing clouds of gloom,
the promise of moon I’ve made to you,
I’ll keep before the eclipse starts.

The somber storm of smothering strife 
drif...

The Bird of Another Sky

...The patina of dew dazzled on my drenched meadow,
charismatic crystals crowning the convergent verdance
sprinkled your essence in million sparkles of motif,
a tapestry I had spread on the precinct ...

Unslept Night

...The meditation of an unslept night,
dancing to the music of silence. 
Waiting for that unseen sight
and my visions to form an alliance. 

To create the uncreated art,
searching in worlds unexpl...

Rain 'Pon the Windowsill

...The rain pon the windowsill
The pounding of my heart
The sound that looms round
the empty room
And rends my soul apart

The pillow next, not damp like mine
unslept on lo these many years
yet ...

That Night: I Wish You Took Me Too

...Leave me visible like a vagrant dog in a deluge...
I'll hear your whisper in the wind, embrace your essence
in the rain, and see the secluded skies..
  When the rain is subtle I will know that som...

The Blooming Blood

...Sky-clad, you are going 
to meet the nemesis,
digging the street to?
find the nails. Do not fret.
Nails had burrowed deep in the 
flesh of unknown. When you have
nothing to say, what are you 
...

At the Morgue

...The lighting, it was over-bright
blinding my unslept,red, tired eye
white sheets shook me with dread and fright
the lighting, it was over-bright
oh! on the stiff body drained white
tatto...

Memories

...Memories:

Sometimes I wonder if this all is worthy the fight. Memories still so real etched into my mind. For they will not leave so I can have peace.
Nights unslept, tossing and turning. Days go...

Widower

...Knowing there are
many words for night;
mightwatch,nightshade,nightfall

but none for the space
of a halved bed,
an envelope starched,
flat with white,
unslept in

and hands devoid of
a tr...

Straws

...Tribalism:
You break the rules
and become a renegade.

         *

Do not know 
any god. All the
deities were man-made

         * 

In dark, you 
will recognize the faces
of unslept po...

An Elegy For My Northern Wind

...The Northern wind to South did blow
and left a kiss upon my brow,
I least care for the other ones,
From where to where the Western runs.
 
Within the sailcloth’s native flight
down all the ocea...

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