Wide Awake Poems | Examples

Wide Awake

"Does he love me?
No, for he never told me so.
It was all in my mind,
Neglecting the signs,
As if I'm blind.
I'm accepting it now,
'Cause if his love was true,
Doubt won’t linger, but it grew.
If he truly cared, he would have shown,
And now, I would not be alone.
It's been so long, yet I am still dreaming.
My silent tale has come to its ending.
I was never loved; there, I chose to speak the truth.
Finally, I'm wide awake."

Wide Awake and Sleepless

The Laws of time seem elastic
In the long insomniacal night
That expands into an eternity
With no end seemingly in sight.
It’s  half past Wednesday week
By the real world’s steady clock
But in the land of the sleepless
A time check can bring a shock.

Although it seems so many hours
Since you looked to check it last
In the strange fugue of insomnia 
Just forty  second have passed. 
Bleary eyed and wakeful
Almost  begging for sleep 
Each long expanded moment
Is enough to make you weep.

The clock clicks back to normal
When it’s finally time to rise 
To go and  face the world 
Through sleep deprived eyes,
Fighting off that  urge to doze 
Until that longed for hour when
It’s time crawl back into bed and
Snap  back to wide awake again.

And, amazingly, inexorably, inevitably 
It’s once again next Wednesday week
Yet it never seems any nearer to that 
Blessed  sleep oblivion that you seek.
And the laws of space and time
Seem at will to contract and expand
As they hold a body in their thrall 
In  wide wake and sleepless  land.

Wide Awake

It isn’t a dream when you feel wide awake
There’s only so much of this world I can take
It pulses through my veins, I’m starting to shake
Like a dream and a nightmare, but I’m wide awake
Not a dream nor a nightmare, cause I’m wide awake



Bite Size Poem no.43 Poetry Contest

Wide-Awake Napping

Fn->spacebar lights my keyboard
So I can see the keys to score
Wanted placement in the game of poetry
Top links in line so I'm not ignored

Little mouse help route my cursor
So more corrections makes things less worser
Oh I miss my pen and eraser
And the days I was an ardent curser

But today I let the keys do the tapping
While my mind is set a rapping
And the computer seems to do more work
As I'm just here wide-awake napping

Lost Once Again--Wide Awake--In Eden's Articulate Garden

Sweet precarious slumber...
I am night falls eager muse
daylights withdrawn fiend
consuming my once heavy lids
yet-- 
the sleeping draught has plagued me
 just as before.

If I’m quiet long enough, 
I can hear the lingual effects 
like listening to a voice
 that won’t stop speaking 
even after my tongue
 has long since been tucked in for the night.
Mindless music at full volume 
can’t block out the noise—
not when the sounds echo from within.

Unwillingly embraced 
by the devious dawn,
the raw naked ideas
 continuously flowed
 like regurgitated thoughts
on the coffee-stained pages
 of my frayed little notebook.
Where the pain is not dulled
 but worshipped in her wake.

Lyrical blood-flowing bliss—
my left hand aflame,
 my mind twice my own.
A figurative love affair 
with artistic expression
playing hide-and-seek 
among the salient words
lost once again—
wide awake—
in Eden’s articulate garden. 


Contest: What's in a title in 14-20 lines Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Date: April 29, 2021

Wide Awake

Clattering coins 
forcefully flung 
inside a fragmented glass jar,

doleful howls full of misery, woe
nocturnal creatures arise,

rapid rotations, 
continual tornados

tedious echos beneath 
a derelict railway tunnel,

nefarious lightning 
strikes the thunder,

rolling immensely enraged
she roars fighter jets in fury,

disturbed bees, swarming their hive
stalking, terrorising, pestering

a solo stone plunges
down a bottomless well,

belligerent twangs
upon a jilted ukulele,

these were her hunger pangs,
which fed her insomnia at night.

A Wide Awake Snooze Made Me Scream

A wide awake snooze made me scream
Held me in the clutches of a well-earned dream.
An elephant in pajamas came running up fast.
He pushed me aside, and made the sign of a bast.

A wide awake snooze held me captive in my head.
I thrashed and I crashed,, and I fell out of the bed.
My dad yelled, "What's that?" But I could not open my eyes.
So I stayed on the floor, curled up with some left over fries.

My snooze was determined to keep my eyes solidly shut.
I fought her for awhile, but soon gave up in my gut.
She was much too strong for me, this wide away snooze.
So I envisioned myself a frog, deciding to stay off the booze.

Wide Awake Now

My impetuous pirate self-jumps up to play
I snarl and yell at her to just go away
She laughs as I hide my hazel eyes from her sight
Her faerie soul knows my heart with all of her might

I try to re-capture my delicious dream so dear
But she settles on my stomach and giggles in my ear
I guess we are writing poetry, I say, with a laugh
She shakes her head, and snorts prettily like a giraffe

Wide awake now with nothing pressing or imperative to do
I jump out of bed and make a swift and sure race to the loo
My pirate heart laughs at my frowny face in the mirror
Glad she has have gotten up, my imagination in gear

Wide Awake

 Now I see clearly
 My sleepy eyes pierced darkness
 Dawn's light now shines in



Date written and posted: 03/21/2018

Wide Awake

They are called windows into the soul 
        Open them wide and notice
                 How you shine
                       Within
                        Love
                       Grows
                Hidden gardens
      Presenting the fullness of life
If you will pay close enough attention

Wide Awake

She called out in a loud voice in what was long since then 
Remembering back to that choice, what would have been
For now she was all alone with no place to hide that pain
Once the Light had shone, well, feelings are hard to feign

Falling down to her knees, her hands covering her face
She called out her pleas in so asking God for His Grace
And as her tears poured, darkness covering her heart
Feeling so unassured, this being the best place to start

When something came along, a feeling she never had
The feeling of being wrong, but not that she was bad
Clearly seeing her mistake the Lord drawing her near
A soul now wide awake as His Love became so clear

Everyone of us will fall and this being on a daily basis
For life is a very tough haul as you can vouch for this
That is why Jesus had came atoning for every inequity 
But by not knowing His Name nor can you ever be free  

Psalms 27:8 (KJV)
“When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; 
my heart said unto thee, 
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.”

You find what you seek.

Unborn Angel same theme,  FORGIVENSS

Wide Awake -A Hero's Departure

Wide Awake (A Hero's Departure)


I awoke from a dream, a childlike slumber
Perfectly still, as to not let the vision 
slip
Within the eyes of a child, a hero was
born
Safe, soft, a beautiful gift
But in moments of deepest despair,
No hero remained, or had existed 
at all
(it would seem)
Promises of love fall flat
behind the facades, the fear of fears,
the listless gleam
From the heart of a woman, a hero 
was torn
Beautiful eyes, wide awake
Hope of hopes, forlorn

No Light and Wide Awake

no light and wide awake
i touch you after sixteen hours
and the unrelenting pain

no light and wide awake
i relax as the vibrating 
reactions of my touch 
send inspiration for short
but sweet slumber to my
mind

no light and wide awake
dread dissipates as my body
rejuvenates and prepares for
the long but essential more of 
the same day that keeps me 
here in this vibe with you

no light and wide awake
i curse to myself two hours
and some change later as i
fight the determined diorientation
of my sleepiness and begin my quest
for the week's sweet ending

Wide Awake

wide awake, wide alive 
 but i feel so dead inside
 cant shake this feeling
 i did alright, i did ok 
 breezed through the 
 rest of my day 

 all i have is night 
 all night
 darkness squeezed tight 
 every night is a fight 
 the war is raging

 come to me 
 belive in me 
 hold me close now 
 rescue me 
 free me
 don't ever let me go now

 i've been ok 
 i've been alright 
 the dawn is almost in sight 
 i look to you 
 you are my redeemer

Wide Awake

Alone, isolated in the dark,
In fear and tears she was led.

To a place of night, so stark,
Her innocence taken, she bled.

She'd set out so independent,
So stubborn, to make it on her own.

A trust broken, a love bent,
The love that was never shown.

Now, alone, she cries and weeps,
For the time so wasted and past.

And in the night she does not sleep,
How did the time pass so very fast?

Maybe if I'd told her that I missed her,
If I could have put down my pride,

And admitted my love for my sister,
Maybe if I had just tried.

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