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Sleep!
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Daniel Long
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Daniel Long
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Joined 26th Nov 2018 Forum Posts: 191
Poetry Contest Description
So, we all sleep. All for the same reason. Yet for something else like escape. For example, depression, boredom, or any other undesirable thoughts or feelings. Write a poem or prose about how you will escape something by sleeping. Good luck!
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Forum Posts: 191
Daniel Long
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Joined 26th Nov 2018 Forum Posts: 191
Sleep
When I’m depressed I go to sleep.
It does me well for awake I’m quiet anyway.
Psychosis is so beautiful yet so terrible.
I don’t ever want to wake up again.
Because whenever I’m awake
Psychosis pulls me into darkness.
So, I go to sleep! Where beauty and darkness
mold into dreamy realities and serenity.
Sleep!
It does me well for awake I’m quiet anyway.
Psychosis is so beautiful yet so terrible.
I don’t ever want to wake up again.
Because whenever I’m awake
Psychosis pulls me into darkness.
So, I go to sleep! Where beauty and darkness
mold into dreamy realities and serenity.
Sleep!
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MidnightSonneteer
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 13th May 2022Forum Posts: 483
Sleep on it
What fancy projects when the eyelids drop
and Morphean theater gains a screen
where dormant inspiration goes to shop
for the grotesque, or, a frivolous scene?
The Muse with Morpheus will mix confirmed
whenever consciousness slips well away
and relentless reason becomes infirmed
until welcome dawn breaks another day
and sees reason to it's old throne restored.
Yet with wakeful constancy now askew
with off kilter thinking rightly adored
for turning old thoughts into something new.
And thus...a repurposing is sired...
when dream gods by the muse...are inspired.
and Morphean theater gains a screen
where dormant inspiration goes to shop
for the grotesque, or, a frivolous scene?
The Muse with Morpheus will mix confirmed
whenever consciousness slips well away
and relentless reason becomes infirmed
until welcome dawn breaks another day
and sees reason to it's old throne restored.
Yet with wakeful constancy now askew
with off kilter thinking rightly adored
for turning old thoughts into something new.
And thus...a repurposing is sired...
when dream gods by the muse...are inspired.
Written by MidnightSonneteer
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MidnightSonneteer
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 13th May 2022Forum Posts: 483
Bootless Winks
My dreams now come reluctantly
and disincline to stay,
as if an exorbitant fee
was keeping them away.
It seems that fee is misery,
as so often it will be,
kind of like a dysentery...
suffered subconsciously.
I would, If could, track down the source
of muse abandonment;
it's like I woke into divorce,
and sterile settlement...
all too, too much like death itself,
or likewise piss-poor sleep,
cursed by a hypnopompic elf...
not letting slumber keep!
and disincline to stay,
as if an exorbitant fee
was keeping them away.
It seems that fee is misery,
as so often it will be,
kind of like a dysentery...
suffered subconsciously.
I would, If could, track down the source
of muse abandonment;
it's like I woke into divorce,
and sterile settlement...
all too, too much like death itself,
or likewise piss-poor sleep,
cursed by a hypnopompic elf...
not letting slumber keep!
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MidnightSonneteer
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Dangerous Mind
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Joined 13th May 2022Forum Posts: 483
Brain Waves
Like some shit posting web child
the Morphean mind goes unchecked
and shows an id ever styled
as utter chaos bottlenecked
by the longboard of a surfing brain,
hanging ten on waves of thought,
circling vast oblivion's drain
all around a forget me not
which only blooms long after dark,
but well before the light of day
shows up to make it's golden mark,
with the power of Apollo's ray,
once more making us aware...
dream surfers love their midnight air.
the Morphean mind goes unchecked
and shows an id ever styled
as utter chaos bottlenecked
by the longboard of a surfing brain,
hanging ten on waves of thought,
circling vast oblivion's drain
all around a forget me not
which only blooms long after dark,
but well before the light of day
shows up to make it's golden mark,
with the power of Apollo's ray,
once more making us aware...
dream surfers love their midnight air.
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MidnightSonneteer
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Dangerous Mind
6
Joined 13th May 2022Forum Posts: 483
Mad Boffin Nights!
Sometimes in the...la-BOR-uh-TREE
I mix and match my words
then truss them up exquisitely
for all poetic nerds.
Then I mélange old lexicons
with rusty knives and glue
and ponder naked amazons
where I describe the view.
I switch to neo logic thought
in strange syllabic bits
all to conform just like a knot
around their champion tits!
My midnight mind gets all agog
for beauty in all forms
of digital or analog
in anatomic swarms.
And then I pat each pipe dream chick
right squarely on the ass
to see if she's a lunatic
for poets extra crass!
Then I moved to the bonny maid
who pays her union dues
in every brand of sexy trade
to daze and then enthuse!
Soon the hour of the witch
would test me when I marked
that every witch would wear no stitch
when they on brooms embarked!
They'd come and go just as they please
but mostly they would come
by way of nympho-manic tease
set to a bacchic drum.
And by that beat we played till dawn
when everyone dispersed
except for out upon the lawn...
one cow girl...reversed!
I asked her if I might assist
to help her from the grass
whereat she turned and gently kissed
my fantasizing ass!
Twas then she vanished in the air
and I was left alone
with dictionaries everywhere
on centerfolds I own!
Which then assembled in a flash
of harnessed solar beams...
only to burst into the ash...
of mad poetic dreams!
I mix and match my words
then truss them up exquisitely
for all poetic nerds.
Then I mélange old lexicons
with rusty knives and glue
and ponder naked amazons
where I describe the view.
I switch to neo logic thought
in strange syllabic bits
all to conform just like a knot
around their champion tits!
My midnight mind gets all agog
for beauty in all forms
of digital or analog
in anatomic swarms.
And then I pat each pipe dream chick
right squarely on the ass
to see if she's a lunatic
for poets extra crass!
Then I moved to the bonny maid
who pays her union dues
in every brand of sexy trade
to daze and then enthuse!
Soon the hour of the witch
would test me when I marked
that every witch would wear no stitch
when they on brooms embarked!
They'd come and go just as they please
but mostly they would come
by way of nympho-manic tease
set to a bacchic drum.
And by that beat we played till dawn
when everyone dispersed
except for out upon the lawn...
one cow girl...reversed!
I asked her if I might assist
to help her from the grass
whereat she turned and gently kissed
my fantasizing ass!
Twas then she vanished in the air
and I was left alone
with dictionaries everywhere
on centerfolds I own!
Which then assembled in a flash
of harnessed solar beams...
only to burst into the ash...
of mad poetic dreams!
Written by MidnightSonneteer
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Daniel Long
Forum Posts: 191
Daniel Long
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Joined 26th Nov 2018 Forum Posts: 191
Very strong start to the comp! Thank you midnightsonneteer! Excellent work!
Adzy
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Twisted Dreamer
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Joined 13th Feb 2016 Forum Posts: 44
Dreamland
The sandman pays a visit
In the dark of the night
To take me off to dream land
As my eyes shut tight
I begin to drift away
Thoughts clear from my head
I'm whisked off to a new world
As my body lies safe in bed
In this place I feel free
My mind starts to mend
No misery, stress or pain here
It's a shame it'll soon end
I wish I could stay
But the alarm clock rings
My eyes slowly peel open
Now the nightmare begins
In the dark of the night
To take me off to dream land
As my eyes shut tight
I begin to drift away
Thoughts clear from my head
I'm whisked off to a new world
As my body lies safe in bed
In this place I feel free
My mind starts to mend
No misery, stress or pain here
It's a shame it'll soon end
I wish I could stay
But the alarm clock rings
My eyes slowly peel open
Now the nightmare begins
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Rew
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Fire of Insight
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Joined 30th Sep 2022 Forum Posts: 572
My Sister Sleep
My sister sleep and me are close
it's almost as if we are twins,
but we fight sometimes I may win
but sister sleep she wins the most.
My shadow she or she's my ghost
she haunts my every waking breath,
she knows me deep down to my depth
and siren like sings lullabies
ignoring all protests of mine
luring me to meet, brother death...
it's almost as if we are twins,
but we fight sometimes I may win
but sister sleep she wins the most.
My shadow she or she's my ghost
she haunts my every waking breath,
she knows me deep down to my depth
and siren like sings lullabies
ignoring all protests of mine
luring me to meet, brother death...
Written by Rew
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