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Sleep Poems | Examples of Sleep Poetry

Sleep Poems - Examples of all types of sleep poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for sleep.
Premium Member The Walking Dead
Hours drift by Yet here l still lie Eyes and mind wide open Desperate for sleep Counting Little Bo-Peeps sheep Eyes and mind wide open Frustrated and forlorn For now it is dawn Eyes and mind wide open Soon it is time to rise I...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, sleep,
Form: Rhyme



Rainy Sunday
Rainy day Sunday Sleeping all day like cat My world halt awhile....Read the rest...
Categories: engagement, life, sleep, world,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I Woke Up On A Tropical Island
A vacation was needed, off on a cruise we were treated. Great cabin, food, parties and shows, now in a chair with a book about a rose. The seas got really rough, off the desk went our stuff. Into the cold...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, drink, food, friend, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Boy Who Loved Blue
He lived on a beautiful, rural farm, back in fond, good old days of yore, With his parents and two brothers; like sun's going in and out the door. He had always adored the color blue, so...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, blue, boy, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Upon the Wings of Angels
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ some of our best ideas arrive upon the wings of angels as messages in our dreams...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, imagination, sleep,
Form: Free verse



Under The Sheets
Under the sheets lies abundance of dreams Tucked away safely to visit each night Laden in comfort,...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, cute, dream, happy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raining in Summer
Spring is on it's way out, with warmer days on the horizon. Summer is a great time of the year, sleeping in from school ~ hooray. Splashing fun time at the pool or beach, to cookouts of BBQ and Ice...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, beach, food, fun, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleep Deprived
Our very survival requires at least some sleep Collectively we never get enough due to our hectic lives we keep I think as a whole the lack of shut-eye has affected how we sleep Our lack of not...Read the rest...
Categories: life, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sleep
Once more into the breach. I close my eyes, And go to sleep. As my mind goes fallow, ...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member EUROVISIONs GOLD-Sleep My Love 1958
Enchants, “Dors, mon amour,” night of romance. Long ago, he crooned, put hearts in a trance. André Claveau, nearing fifty years old, effulgence of French lips, Eurovision’s gold. Some audience, annoyed, at love’s deep sleep - need be left alone,...Read the rest...
Categories: love, sleep, song,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Insomnia
Deprived of sleep the mind revolves in a slowly turning gyre of thoughts, capturing the past and future in its spiral to feed its want and taunt the will. Dawn becomes a cruel mirage dancing on a distant horizon. An exhausted self is sieved through the...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Sleepwalking
I find myself becoming more and more distracted. Taking a sheet of paper and tearing off the corner. Then tearing off the torn part again. I remember that time… It’s like when… I find myself becoming more and more distracted. Like...Read the rest...
Categories: mental illness, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Factory
As a child I was warned that if I looked at the light for too long it would send me blind and yet the stuttering flash and eerie blue light from an arc welder that crackled deep inside the factory would tempt...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, anxiety, childhood, dream, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pillow Talk
Pillow Talk You call to me, To return to your warm embrace. I've only just left you, Your marks on my skin, I can trace. Your softness in my memory, the hours we've spent tangled...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, sleep,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Lying Awake in Dark of Night
My internal clock is a bane to me waking me from dreams of paradise thrusting me into life's stark reality not allowing sleep when closing my eyes No matter how many hours of sleep I need I wake between three...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, sleep,
Form: Rhyme

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