Insomnia Poems
#insomnia
Poems about insomnia, sleep disorders and sleeplessness. Insomnia poems includes poetry about sleep deprivation and extreme tiredness. Here you'll find poems exploring the challenges faced when having difficulty falling asleep, or not being able to stay asleep long enough to feel refreshed.
Insomnia Keep
Insomnia, sleep
Oh how my mind loves to weep
Sleep, mine does not keep
Oh how my mind loves to weep
Sleep, mine does not keep
#insomnia
#sleep
#senryu
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Motherland
Motherland
I stare into Ovaltine,
on my own bar the whir of the fridge,
a hand painted clock
and something, perhaps it's the boiler
rumbling about as if a cantankerous whale.
She's there too, the bleak reflection
beyond a cluttered table,
a cluttered tea trolley
and the sink,
sits crumpled in the beat down light
extended above the affray.
I don't even know if affray is the right word,
or whether chaos would be better,
mess would be simple enough,
between all of that. --
It mirrors the mind, ...
I stare into Ovaltine,
on my own bar the whir of the fridge,
a hand painted clock
and something, perhaps it's the boiler
rumbling about as if a cantankerous whale.
She's there too, the bleak reflection
beyond a cluttered table,
a cluttered tea trolley
and the sink,
sits crumpled in the beat down light
extended above the affray.
I don't even know if affray is the right word,
or whether chaos would be better,
mess would be simple enough,
between all of that. --
It mirrors the mind, ...
#sadness
#home
#insomnia
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Insomnia
She walked in the pitch black of the night as when she laid down her mind would start to drive her to the edge of her 4ft 6 bed . She is 5ft 8 so she thought no more of this shenanigans and pulled on her warm coat and bobble hat over her pjs and shoved her fur lined boots on to stomp in the streets to tire her brain . Wide awake, walking with a rhythm of a quick march, pounding feet wrestling with her mind . She thought if she picked up the pace her mind may fall behind to second and maybe third place and she could finally climb back into bed . The winner and instead of celebrating with a...
#LifeStruggles
#insomnia
#MentalHealth
#sleep
#despair
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War Diary
It's the night 13 of the battle
another night of long bloodbath,
massacre of dreams, of peace.
In the light of the moon
the white noise has been waived,
wounded soldiers (eyes) waiting for Valkyries.
Songbirds blow their trumpets
oscillating and resonating my open bruise
leaving me shaken and aching.
The sun shines bright on my face
and, I guess it is again too late...
...to blow the candles out.
—Ab.C.
another night of long bloodbath,
massacre of dreams, of peace.
In the light of the moon
the white noise has been waived,
wounded soldiers (eyes) waiting for Valkyries.
Songbirds blow their trumpets
oscillating and resonating my open bruise
leaving me shaken and aching.
The sun shines bright on my face
and, I guess it is again too late...
...to blow the candles out.
—Ab.C.
#grief
#death
#insomnia
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Dark Past
There were cuts on my wrist,
I can still see the scars.
Like white powder lines,
separated like stars.
They’ve been written and scribbled,
chewed on and nibbled,
by the 2-year-old in my heart.
But the dark sky would be less bright,
without its stars.
I can still see the scars.
Like white powder lines,
separated like stars.
They’ve been written and scribbled,
chewed on and nibbled,
by the 2-year-old in my heart.
But the dark sky would be less bright,
without its stars.
#anxiety
#SelfHarm
#insomnia
#PTSD
#vulnerability
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sleepless love
Night long since enclosed
all
In dark tired eyes
Unseeing
Yet I do not follow
Where your memory further fades
No…
I just want to stay
In a today
Of your imagination
A waking dream
Carried together in flights
Of love & passion
Friendship & companionship
It’s in your dreams
that I am home
In your hold
I am happy
In your tomorrow
I can softly sink into hope
Since I must finally rest
I’ll slightly close
these sleepy searching eyes
To drift into your visions
...
all
In dark tired eyes
Unseeing
Yet I do not follow
Where your memory further fades
No…
I just want to stay
In a today
Of your imagination
A waking dream
Carried together in flights
Of love & passion
Friendship & companionship
It’s in your dreams
that I am home
In your hold
I am happy
In your tomorrow
I can softly sink into hope
Since I must finally rest
I’ll slightly close
these sleepy searching eyes
To drift into your visions
...
#insomnia
#IMissYou
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A Comfortable Mind ?
Want
A comfortable mind
One
That doesn’t look for every fault
Want
To lose the hurricane of thoughts
That
Plague me to stay awake
Need
The black void of normality
A comfortable mind
One
That doesn’t look for every fault
Want
To lose the hurricane of thoughts
That
Plague me to stay awake
Need
The black void of normality
#SelfReflection
#insomnia
#Autism
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Puppet Master
Red string of fate wrapped like a noose
Dragging me kicking and screaming up with you
Back and forth we swing; puppets of an angry god
I love you more than the air I'm struggling to breathe
Trapped with you in this torturous spinning mobile
There really is no real choice when I'm with you
It's all some kind of game we're forced to play
Forth and back we sway wondering if we're even real
Do you really love me? Do I love you?
Does it matter in the end we're still here swinging?
We're just puppets playing under the hand of fate
Dragging me kicking and screaming up with you
Back and forth we swing; puppets of an angry god
I love you more than the air I'm struggling to breathe
Trapped with you in this torturous spinning mobile
There really is no real choice when I'm with you
It's all some kind of game we're forced to play
Forth and back we sway wondering if we're even real
Do you really love me? Do I love you?
Does it matter in the end we're still here swinging?
We're just puppets playing under the hand of fate
#fate
#insomnia
#nightmares
#philosophical
#curse
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Ghosts In The Night
I just can't sleep
My eyes open wide
The stars spin round outside My window
Seeing ghosts
Just a trick of a tired mind
Or maybe that's just when you
See them for real
The long dead past
Come to life
To show you the mistakes
That you've made
And while I lay here awake
And praying for sleep
I wonder if my ghosts
Have ghosts of their own
To show them their own mistakes
My eyes open wide
The stars spin round outside My window
Seeing ghosts
Just a trick of a tired mind
Or maybe that's just when you
See them for real
The long dead past
Come to life
To show you the mistakes
That you've made
And while I lay here awake
And praying for sleep
I wonder if my ghosts
Have ghosts of their own
To show them their own mistakes
#insomnia
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Bukowski
#identity
#confessional
#insomnia #bittersweet
#insomnia #bittersweet
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the dreamers
The dreamers
She has fallen asleep in the living room, watching TV
I feel guilty should have joined her, but soap opera, do my head in
Now, I am going to sit near her on the sofa and when she wakes up
She will think I have been sitting there all the time
She will be happy and hold my hands
I have promised her tomorrow, we are going for a drive along the coast
Stop for coffee and a cake, and watch the young swimmers frolicking
She will tell me again at the time she was a stewardess and danced
The tango in Buenos Aires, not to be outdone, I...
She has fallen asleep in the living room, watching TV
I feel guilty should have joined her, but soap opera, do my head in
Now, I am going to sit near her on the sofa and when she wakes up
She will think I have been sitting there all the time
She will be happy and hold my hands
I have promised her tomorrow, we are going for a drive along the coast
Stop for coffee and a cake, and watch the young swimmers frolicking
She will tell me again at the time she was a stewardess and danced
The tango in Buenos Aires, not to be outdone, I...
#anxiety
#depression
#insomnia
#addiction
#diabetes
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The Calm Before
The wind it wails a banshee's shriek
Torrent waves thrash the boat, so bleak
Balance is a dream, unattainable yet
As the ship tosses in its perilous net
Darkness descends, a shroud of dread
Echoing moans, the dying sea's bed
A phantom hand upon the helm
Steering the vessel to a watery realm
The storm rages on, with tempestuous glee
Tearing the sails with savage debris
A dance of death, on the raging sea
The ship, a pawn, in a demonic spree
The wind it howls an evil tune ...
Torrent waves thrash the boat, so bleak
Balance is a dream, unattainable yet
As the ship tosses in its perilous net
Darkness descends, a shroud of dread
Echoing moans, the dying sea's bed
A phantom hand upon the helm
Steering the vessel to a watery realm
The storm rages on, with tempestuous glee
Tearing the sails with savage debris
A dance of death, on the raging sea
The ship, a pawn, in a demonic spree
The wind it howls an evil tune ...
#dark
#murder
#gothic #insomnia
#gothic #insomnia
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