Get Your Premium Membership

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.
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, dream, happy, humor, inspirational,
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
Clique
Sort of morning that Though dark jubilates in blue, A worn out welcome....Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, angst, blue, dark, introspection,
Form: Haiku
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 thing as a whole the lack of shut eye has really effected how we sleep Our lack...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
Premium Member on the edge of sleep
Whimsy flowers On the edge of sleep Mirage-like echoes Singing off key Arias Challenge The closing curtain Whispers Hidden In the dusk Of dreams Dance In the vapory mist Of sleep’s Oasis. ...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, imagination, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member sleepy dogs
heavy eyes fall shut wet noses touch on pillows and snoring begins...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, sleep,
Form: Haiku
Nighttime Bliss
Nights once amiss Now birth cerebral bliss Evenings belong to caring for Oneself Lovely potions and Serums lining the shelf A cup of steam next to a Lover dreaming Worries now a focus of mind-clearing With crosswords or...Read the rest...
Categories: sleep, anxiety, blessing, deep, family,
Form: Rhyme
No Escape
Poet’s sleep with their memories to hate or to love Voices unanswered the night’s turtledove Darkness remembers what daylight forgets As dreamers reenter — what twilight begets (Dreamsleep: April, 2018) ...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, sleep, voice,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Sleep Poems

Definition | What is Sleep in Poetry?


Book: Reflection on the Important Things