Sleep Poems | Examples of Sleep Poetry

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...

Insomnia:self induced I had a rough night didn't sleep much at all So i make my coffee strong sweet and tall Got to wake up and get on with the day Caffeine infused and sugar laced Tonight I'll go to...Read the rest...

Hop onboard overthinkers A warm Welcome aboard the overthinker to all our guests, Especially Mr insomnia, and Mrs overthinker, both frequent flyers and our VIP guests I'll be your minds captain for this flight, through awake all...Read the rest...

Even when my eyes sting too much to even peek, I somehow still cannot seem to fall asleep What is this evil force that keeps me wide awake? This monster, no matter how i hard I try is...Read the rest...

What’s born will die, we know this but heart says something’s amiss, in as there is more to us, than fears of mind that nonplus. When we dream, senses recede, yet thoughts refuse to concede right of way to mists that...Read the rest...