Sleep Poems | Examples of Sleep Poetry

Once more into the breach. I close my eyes, And go to sleep. As my mind goes fallow, ...Read the rest...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

heavy eyes fall shut wet noses touch on pillows and snoring begins...Read the rest...

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...

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...

Maudlin Crossing Dateline Morning Maudlin by a failed winter's crossing, Your heat's dateline onto the morning....Read the rest...

each night in deep sleep, we return to God ~ waking up in form, energised and awed...Read the rest...

Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage home? Impossible! Surely...Read the rest...

Although by necessity, some people utilize me by day, For most people, I come to comfort and relax them at night. Whether by night or by day, In December or the month of May, Without warning, I will often...Read the rest...