Poems About Insomnia by Top Critiquers
#insomnia
nightbirdblue
enbyblue
enbyblue
Poem Published
4th Mar 2022 6:29pm
4th Mar 2022 6:29pm
Slowburn
I’ve been noticing
How fkn exhausting it is to
Be the particular way that I am
About things being done
The right way
And I’ve
Been wanting
For a life of higher luxury
To pamper myself with status
Adorning myself with
Earthly desires
Filling the
Void
That stares back
I usually do it with music
Rap has been bumping
To my heartbeat and
Keeping me going
While arousing
Me too
Consuming the
Things I can have because
Right now...
How fkn exhausting it is to
Be the particular way that I am
About things being done
The right way
And I’ve
Been wanting
For a life of higher luxury
To pamper myself with status
Adorning myself with
Earthly desires
Filling the
Void
That stares back
I usually do it with music
Rap has been bumping
To my heartbeat and
Keeping me going
While arousing
Me too
Consuming the
Things I can have because
Right now...
#SelfHarm
#insomnia
#OCD
#MentalHealth
#EatingDisorder
414 reads
0 Comments
Duende
Poem Published
22nd Mar 2024 2:00am
22nd Mar 2024 2:00am
Sleepless
i can't sleep...
shadows dance
upon my walls
...whispering
sleep disorder
messes me up
destroys me...
the darkness
surrounds me
...chokes me
ghosts from the
past come to life
haunting me...
counting sheep
for 10 years now
insomnia, i am done.
shadows dance
upon my walls
...whispering
sleep disorder
messes me up
destroys me...
the darkness
surrounds me
...chokes me
ghosts from the
past come to life
haunting me...
counting sheep
for 10 years now
insomnia, i am done.
#shadows
#insomnia
131 reads
18 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
2nd Sep 2022 12:18pm
2nd Sep 2022 12:18pm
Mosquitoes Drank my Bourbon
Angry sleep
Mosquitoes taking aim
115 proof Old Forester drew them to me
Scratching all night
Damn neighbors moving yesterday
Doors open for hours
Pesky invaders took up residence
Pay no rent
Stealing blood
No mercy
Mosquitoes taking aim
115 proof Old Forester drew them to me
Scratching all night
Damn neighbors moving yesterday
Doors open for hours
Pesky invaders took up residence
Pay no rent
Stealing blood
No mercy
#insomnia
#sleep
#art
#suffering
#philosophical
413 reads
30 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
18th Jan 2024 9:45am
18th Jan 2024 9:45am
go back to sleep...
when the nightmares fade
and the fog of time settles in
like an old patchwork quilt
scraps of the past stitched together
in some haphazard kinda manner
blanketing history with a groggy me
muffling the internal screams
until I'm finally able to sleep
unsettled...twitchy...a little uneasy...
but desperate for a respite
a moment's unblemished peace
I lay tensed in a compact ball
occupying the least required space
waiting for sandman's call
listening to the erratic thud of my heart
and the unnaturally loud sound of my...
and the fog of time settles in
like an old patchwork quilt
scraps of the past stitched together
in some haphazard kinda manner
blanketing history with a groggy me
muffling the internal screams
until I'm finally able to sleep
unsettled...twitchy...a little uneasy...
but desperate for a respite
a moment's unblemished peace
I lay tensed in a compact ball
occupying the least required space
waiting for sandman's call
listening to the erratic thud of my heart
and the unnaturally loud sound of my...
#confessional
#insomnia
#PTSD #nightmares
#PTSD #nightmares
205 reads
10 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
1st Aug 2021 8:45am
1st Aug 2021 8:45am
Poetry...After Midnight
The clock strikes twelve and I spring up to write
Poetry after midnight –
Which seems like a symbolic and elaborate rite
As if being anointed by the muse.
And while sleep has alluded me
I can feel my thoughts begin to take flight,
The verses spread their wings like birds
And fly off into the dark in herds
Causing my heart to have a rebellious stir
When the dream seems to be devoid of light.
And that is how I have come to use
An accord of concrete and abstract words
Composing poems for an anthology
That takes me late into the...
Poetry after midnight –
Which seems like a symbolic and elaborate rite
As if being anointed by the muse.
And while sleep has alluded me
I can feel my thoughts begin to take flight,
The verses spread their wings like birds
And fly off into the dark in herds
Causing my heart to have a rebellious stir
When the dream seems to be devoid of light.
And that is how I have come to use
An accord of concrete and abstract words
Composing poems for an anthology
That takes me late into the...
#inspirational
#insomnia
#WritingPoetry #WilliamButlerYeats
#WritingPoetry #WilliamButlerYeats
345 reads
8 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
19th Dec 2019 3:38pm
19th Dec 2019 3:38pm
Swords and Mirrors
screaming fits inside
quietly swallowed with a grin
heart palpitations worsening
expecting the falling sword
halved and sliced
serpent dwelling in stomach
ripped out with scalpels
seized and flung into fire
quiet as hushed baby breaths
slumber knocks on mirrors
never entering just yearning
for Sandman's company to a dreary dawn
quietly swallowed with a grin
heart palpitations worsening
expecting the falling sword
halved and sliced
serpent dwelling in stomach
ripped out with scalpels
seized and flung into fire
quiet as hushed baby breaths
slumber knocks on mirrors
never entering just yearning
for Sandman's company to a dreary dawn
#insomnia
#illness
#sleep
636 reads
15 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
2nd Jun 2022 1:45am
2nd Jun 2022 1:45am
Insomnia
I must have done something great in a previous life
Maybe I cure cancer saving everyone's life
Maybe I cleaned up the oceans
Developed a magic elixir or potion
Whatever it was, it had to be grand
Maybe I stood in space with a meteor in my hand
Returned to earth and made everyone hold hands
May be solved foods demands
Stepped onto the battlefield and simply said no more
No more weapons, no more hate, no more war, no more
Whatever it was I don't have to know
Lying here listening to you, as you snore
Fills...
Maybe I cure cancer saving everyone's life
Maybe I cleaned up the oceans
Developed a magic elixir or potion
Whatever it was, it had to be grand
Maybe I stood in space with a meteor in my hand
Returned to earth and made everyone hold hands
May be solved foods demands
Stepped onto the battlefield and simply said no more
No more weapons, no more hate, no more war, no more
Whatever it was I don't have to know
Lying here listening to you, as you snore
Fills...
#insomnia
328 reads
0 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
19th Apr 2019 2:50am
19th Apr 2019 2:50am
Blocked
Awake again.
Body refusing to rest –
twitchy, exhausted but uncomfortable.
Mind joins the party – why not?
Words and ideas start tumbling,
like those balls in the big bingo drum -
turn, turn… let’s see what pops out?
Worthless phrases, no hint of beauty or meaning.
Occasional gems taunting, mocking me,
but never enough to hang a poem on.
Incoherent babble, wasting my time.
I’m out of bed for this??
A hazy sense of something hovers,
Annoying like a fly around my head
refusing to land where I can smack it. ...
Body refusing to rest –
twitchy, exhausted but uncomfortable.
Mind joins the party – why not?
Words and ideas start tumbling,
like those balls in the big bingo drum -
turn, turn… let’s see what pops out?
Worthless phrases, no hint of beauty or meaning.
Occasional gems taunting, mocking me,
but never enough to hang a poem on.
Incoherent babble, wasting my time.
I’m out of bed for this??
A hazy sense of something hovers,
Annoying like a fly around my head
refusing to land where I can smack it. ...
#WritersBlock
#insomnia
#frustration
592 reads
8 Comments
mysteriouslady
Poem Published
22nd Jul 2019 2:11am
22nd Jul 2019 2:11am
enslavement
That first bitter swallow
tame the insanity
chalky burn thrashes my soul
a willing hostage
no pleading whispers from these dirty lips
craving whats to come
sourness now turns to warmth
brainwaves are no longer thrashing
a simple calm resides within
then I smile
is this really who I am
holding on so tightly
never letting go
to question marks
that lurk in my soul
if only for tonight...
tame the insanity
chalky burn thrashes my soul
a willing hostage
no pleading whispers from these dirty lips
craving whats to come
sourness now turns to warmth
brainwaves are no longer thrashing
a simple calm resides within
then I smile
is this really who I am
holding on so tightly
never letting go
to question marks
that lurk in my soul
if only for tonight...
#drugs
#insomnia
#addiction
475 reads
4 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
14th Apr 2024 11:12pm
14th Apr 2024 11:12pm
Naked Cold Place
Awakening in this naked cold place
wandering somberly espresso
stained caffeine bleeding red
fading into obscurity's melancholy
haunting my wretched dreams
of fog on the shores of eternal sleep
at the bottom of the demitasse
wandering somberly espresso
stained caffeine bleeding red
fading into obscurity's melancholy
haunting my wretched dreams
of fog on the shores of eternal sleep
at the bottom of the demitasse
#ghosts
#insomnia
#nightmares
93 reads
0 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
27th Jun 2022 9:00pm
27th Jun 2022 9:00pm
Insomnia, Sleep with me...
I will be your eternal memory that does not let you sleep ...
You will forever remember every minute spent with me,
and every thought will pierce you like an electric current,
blowing up your consciousness and turning on your mind!
Turning you on in every other way too, piercing steel rod
You will forever remember me as a crazy chaos in your head
depriving you of sleep! And you will dream of touching me
at least with your breath, feeling this touch on your body ...
with an exciting tremor!
You will forever remember every minute spent with me,
and every thought will pierce you like an electric current,
blowing up your consciousness and turning on your mind!
Turning you on in every other way too, piercing steel rod
You will forever remember me as a crazy chaos in your head
depriving you of sleep! And you will dream of touching me
at least with your breath, feeling this touch on your body ...
with an exciting tremor!
#men
#insomnia
#passion
729 reads
42 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
7th Jan 2023 3:27am
7th Jan 2023 3:27am
why can't I sleep?
can't sleep
head full of useless
thought
worms
eyes open
body feels like
cement
insomnia arrives like
a new born
baby
screaming
demanding
attention
warning me of mass
destruction
come the
dawn
no light switch
to flip
off
shouldn't have had
those four shots
of expresso
today
head full of useless
thought
worms
eyes open
body feels like
cement
insomnia arrives like
a new born
baby
screaming
demanding
attention
warning me of mass
destruction
come the
dawn
no light switch
to flip
off
shouldn't have had
those four shots
of expresso
today
#funny
#insomnia
358 reads
6 Comments
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