Poems about Sleep
#sleep
Poetry about the benefits of a good night's sleep, and poems about feeling tired or sleepy, including poems about sleep problems like insomnia. Also, poetry about sleep and hibernation in nature.
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Damon
Damon
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:56am
Yesterday 5:56am
An Insomniac's Dream
Dreaming of the day when I can get a straight eight
A peaceful night's sleep without episodes of wake
Without having to take an aid to relay to my mind
That past a certain hour it's night night time
No longer prime time when the mind is fully conscious
But time for a sleep number slumber on a mattress
Instead of going bat shit crazy from sleep deprivation
Awakening refresh and ready to take on a nation
A peaceful night's sleep without episodes of wake
Without having to take an aid to relay to my mind
That past a certain hour it's night night time
No longer prime time when the mind is fully conscious
But time for a sleep number slumber on a mattress
Instead of going bat shit crazy from sleep deprivation
Awakening refresh and ready to take on a nation
#dreams
#insomnia
#sleep
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rowantree
Rowan E.
Rowan E.
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:42am
Yesterday 4:42am
well make me a strawberry morning milkshake.
Today it was dark
when I woke in a satisfied haze
with blue fog around my bed -
mosquito tracks about my veins,
my right arm itching dread
I shook it from my head,
I want to say,
but the truth is
I bristled, being woken at the witching hour
and set a trap for it
of my own exposed flesh,
and dreamed about clapping
its unsuspecting, greedy body
and getting my own blood back.
Making her pay
for poking her spiny nose under my blanket
and taking,
but isn’t that
quite a...
when I woke in a satisfied haze
with blue fog around my bed -
mosquito tracks about my veins,
my right arm itching dread
I shook it from my head,
I want to say,
but the truth is
I bristled, being woken at the witching hour
and set a trap for it
of my own exposed flesh,
and dreamed about clapping
its unsuspecting, greedy body
and getting my own blood back.
Making her pay
for poking her spiny nose under my blanket
and taking,
but isn’t that
quite a...
#anger
#sleep
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1 Comment
Feet-Fanatic
Poem Published
3rd Apr 2020 5:23pm
3rd Apr 2020 5:23pm
Divine Nightmare
I sleep in a trance soaring with grace like a Dove above the celestial sphere in my sweet dreams. Serenity is just is a temporary state of mind. A Raven has launched after feeding on his corpse preceded by cadaverous screams. The crescent moon gives birth to a new beginning foiled by the darkness leaving me maligned. Hallucinations of good are faithfully succumbing to evil in my troubled sleep of horrors. Tranquillity is elusive as affliction rises to new insufferable heights. I am living in a hellish nightmare with the Raven's omen of something sinister. I seek refuge under the wings of a...
#evil
#sleep
#nightmares
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4 Comments
JusTim_
Poem Published
1st Apr 2020 12:53pm
1st Apr 2020 12:53pm
Dimensions
You take the fifth
distilled and delusional
drunk, disorderly and disrobed
fallen to your knees you plea
and pretty pretty plead
your prayers
to multiple dimensions
boots made of stone
you can't run
no directions nor diversions
you can't hide
naked
you abide
songs ring softly in your head
you're alive but somehow dead
life's flashes of brilliance
seem less brilliant
light walks away from you
but you're not through
darkness beckons your pain
in a devil...
distilled and delusional
drunk, disorderly and disrobed
fallen to your knees you plea
and pretty pretty plead
your prayers
to multiple dimensions
boots made of stone
you can't run
no directions nor diversions
you can't hide
naked
you abide
songs ring softly in your head
you're alive but somehow dead
life's flashes of brilliance
seem less brilliant
light walks away from you
but you're not through
darkness beckons your pain
in a devil...
#lust
#dreams
#sleep #NaPoWriMo2020
#sleep #NaPoWriMo2020
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NBathory
Natalia
Natalia
Poem Published
27th Mar 2020 12:44pm
27th Mar 2020 12:44pm
Nocnitsa
I hear her walking
No longer stalking
My visitation
Is scheduled
Since childhood
This torture
Her screeching
Rings in my ears
Songs of past
Traumas
She does not knock
Comes right in
Shall I leave cookies?
I try to fade
While I hide
In darkness
Pills replace sleep
She takes a seat
On my chest
To watch the
Hypnagogic cinema
And torment
I play dead
With every drift
She taps my shoulder
No sleep
My energy wanes
But I must
Watch the...
No longer stalking
My visitation
Is scheduled
Since childhood
This torture
Her screeching
Rings in my ears
Songs of past
Traumas
She does not knock
Comes right in
Shall I leave cookies?
I try to fade
While I hide
In darkness
Pills replace sleep
She takes a seat
On my chest
To watch the
Hypnagogic cinema
And torment
I play dead
With every drift
She taps my shoulder
No sleep
My energy wanes
But I must
Watch the...
#sleep
#nightmares
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8 Comments
TheMonsterfromHe11
Poem Published
24th Mar 2020 4:45am
24th Mar 2020 4:45am
Tantalizing
Hunger, unbearable starvation.
I keep dreaming of exes, past loves remain unspoken too.
Uncontrollable drooling, insatiable.
Deprived and unrelenting.
Subsides when I devour these past mistakes whole.
My vision goes black, I do not witness their consumption.
I don't taste anything, their flavorless.
Bland and unfilling.
But I can feel the entire being slide down my throat.
Hate can not be satisfied or satiated.
My hatred can not be quenched.
So repeats this cycle, like...
I keep dreaming of exes, past loves remain unspoken too.
Uncontrollable drooling, insatiable.
Deprived and unrelenting.
Subsides when I devour these past mistakes whole.
My vision goes black, I do not witness their consumption.
I don't taste anything, their flavorless.
Bland and unfilling.
But I can feel the entire being slide down my throat.
Hate can not be satisfied or satiated.
My hatred can not be quenched.
So repeats this cycle, like...
#dreams
#food
#sleep
#emptiness
#nightmares
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marina2020
Rain Woman
Rain Woman
Poem Published
16th Mar 2020 4:41am
16th Mar 2020 4:41am
Afraid To Sleep
Have you ever been so afraid to sleep?
As if your life wasn't bad enough
The nightmares are far worse
Sleep used to be calm and blissful and relief from this wretched world
But now its haunting and frightening and leaving behind fear
I dread the few hours I fall helplessly into dreams
My mind knows exactly what scares me
Why do I hurt myself like this?
The terror is more frequent and lasting
I can't shrug them off anymore
They stick in my brain and won't let me forget
So I stay awake for as long as my body can handle
Until I...
As if your life wasn't bad enough
The nightmares are far worse
Sleep used to be calm and blissful and relief from this wretched world
But now its haunting and frightening and leaving behind fear
I dread the few hours I fall helplessly into dreams
My mind knows exactly what scares me
Why do I hurt myself like this?
The terror is more frequent and lasting
I can't shrug them off anymore
They stick in my brain and won't let me forget
So I stay awake for as long as my body can handle
Until I...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#sleep #nightmares
#sleep #nightmares
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8 Comments
_Ani_
Poem Published
14th Mar 2020 7:58pm
14th Mar 2020 7:58pm
Slumber
i'm aiming to steal each letter
held framed within your thoughts
capture your imagination
tear your words apart
arrange them
mold them
shape them into something new
a lullaby
meant to gently soothe
to guide you
safely into the warmth
of peaceful slumber
~
#sleep
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4 Comments
elsiesan
Poem Published
14th Mar 2020 2:33pm
14th Mar 2020 2:33pm
Dew Drops
Dew drops
Of morning's mist
Fill my eyes
Day's light
Fades into twilight
Night's darkness
Sleepless thoughts
Racing through
Another long night
Under the moon
Til...
Dew drops
Of morning's mist
Fill my eyes
Once again
Of morning's mist
Fill my eyes
Day's light
Fades into twilight
Night's darkness
Sleepless thoughts
Racing through
Another long night
Under the moon
Til...
Dew drops
Of morning's mist
Fill my eyes
Once again
#morning
#night
#sleep
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Everyday_Author
Randall
Randall
Poem Published
11th Mar 2020 3:18am
11th Mar 2020 3:18am
Monkey Mind Madness: An Olive Branch To My Emotions
My emotional circuits
leave me feeling sluggish
from object to object
I'm doing nothing but running
Exaustion an emergent
I make my own burdens
I wish I could find
one thing that felt worth it
with such low energy
My mind and I are enemies
Just hurting each other
I wish they were friendly
Why can't we be friends
and buck these trends?
maybe decide what to work toward
So we'll be happy in the end?
leave me feeling sluggish
from object to object
I'm doing nothing but running
Exaustion an emergent
I make my own burdens
I wish I could find
one thing that felt worth it
with such low energy
My mind and I are enemies
Just hurting each other
I wish they were friendly
Why can't we be friends
and buck these trends?
maybe decide what to work toward
So we'll be happy in the end?
#insomnia
#sleep
#myself
#disability
#emotions
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Everyday_Author
Randall
Randall
Poem Published
5th Mar 2020 4:29am
5th Mar 2020 4:29am
The Night Marches on: An Anthem of Praxis and Maxim
Insomnia like death and taxes
Is sure to plague me
until the end
For which it leaves me asking
I'm just a man
forced to marry pressure and praxis
Inside the hall of my core
I make mead of these maxims
My body tosses about
My tongue turns the phrase
If I just stay true to this practice
I know I'll be okay
Is sure to plague me
until the end
For which it leaves me asking
I'm just a man
forced to marry pressure and praxis
Inside the hall of my core
I make mead of these maxims
My body tosses about
My tongue turns the phrase
If I just stay true to this practice
I know I'll be okay
#depression
#strength
#insomnia
#sleep
#myself
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PittinixDesigns
Poem Published
29th Feb 2020 10:12pm
29th Feb 2020 10:12pm
The Girl I Dream About
When I’m not dreaming about her,
I can’t keep my eyes closed,
Neither can I stay asleep.
She’s lying beside me in bed,
I’m not dreaming in loneliness.
She presses her lips against mine,
And I feel the kisses of a bonny princess.
She appears and ends my nightmare.
When I’m awake without her love,
I’m nothing but a pauper.
She tells me that she loves me in a dream,
And I’m the richest merchant alive.
I never want to wake up,
For she’ll disappear when the dream ends,
And my incessant sadness will return.
I...
I can’t keep my eyes closed,
Neither can I stay asleep.
She’s lying beside me in bed,
I’m not dreaming in loneliness.
She presses her lips against mine,
And I feel the kisses of a bonny princess.
She appears and ends my nightmare.
When I’m awake without her love,
I’m nothing but a pauper.
She tells me that she loves me in a dream,
And I’m the richest merchant alive.
I never want to wake up,
For she’ll disappear when the dream ends,
And my incessant sadness will return.
I...
#love
#dreams
#sleep
#nightmares
#FeelingTrapped
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