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Metaphor Sleep Poems

These Metaphor Sleep poems are examples of Sleep poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Sleep Metaphor poems written by international poets.


I CHOOSE TO DWELL IN THE CLOUDS
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I CHOOSE TO DWELL IN THE CLOUDS 

I choose to dwell 
among clouds 
for a while
where fleshlessness a 
state of bliss...

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Categories: sleep, birth, character, creation, earth,



Somnus
Elude me, sleep,
like a scorned lover
who leaves me breathless,
chest tight,
gripped with vines.

Leave me, sleep,
alone in the void,
not one sense available
as I hang,
immobile in purgatory.

Call me,...

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Categories: sleep,

Layers of the Unconscious Mind
In layers of the unconscious mind,
Where desire and fear are hard to find.
Through symbols and there metaphors,
We seek to find those open doors.

Through corridors of...

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© Sean Wilde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sleep, anxiety, courage, dream, extended

Some nights sleep without us
When my eyes fold,
they go not to rest,
they fall into rivers that flow behind the retinas 
this is a painting of unfulfilled dreams dancing in...

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Categories: sleep, dark, deep, depression, emotions,

Tonight, The Moon Looks Sad
Hazed, waddling back and forth.
I'm lost.
Can I catch up with the sun?
Or am I forever destined to befriend the moon.
I see may face reflecting on...

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Categories: sleep, confusion, emotions, grief, metaphor,



Moon
The dark is not scary 
You are just as bright as the sun
But in darkness you illuminate
The tallest of trees
Whisper sweet dreams 
Lull the people...

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Categories: sleep, metaphor, moon,

Premium Member The Conversation of Sleep
I dreamt only of green alkanet.

One by one,
I'd see another,
mutilate my view,
talking in tongues of five, 
as they destroy the delicate balance,
between this world and...

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Categories: sleep, dark, dream, extended metaphor,

Premium Member As He Slumbers
He sleeps like a koala from seven to eleven.
While I'm here simply left waiting and wondering just when
Is the specific time that I can even...

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Categories: sleep, best friend, first love,

Premium Member MYSTIC METAPHOR
The came to me
Again – last night
Those poems that I
Shall never write
They torment me
In light of day
Dance through my head
But never stay
Capture me
In deepest REM
Know...

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Categories: dream, muse, poetry, sleep,

Premium Member Slumber
This overwhelming sense I fear is death,
Macerates any attempt of release,
Your weight upon my chest holds still my breath,
A lamb in languor, I plead for...

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Categories: sleep, dream, evil, introspection, metaphor,

Premium Member Gatto
Slumbering beneath the lamplight,
As though he is bathing in sunlight....

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Categories: sleep, cat, cute, metaphor, pets,

Sleep and Dream
The sleep
passenger,
reality...
lasts a while...

the dream,
permanent reality
lives...!
forever...  !...

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Categories: sleep, allusion, analogy, appreciation, dream,

Premium Member Bing Chat Ai Shockingly Gives Me a Score of 95 Out of 100 For My Poem
Me: "Bing, the intended rhyme scheme for the poem below is ABABAB; and I made additional changes in line 9 of the poem in order...

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Categories: sleep, child, childhood, death, dream,

I Know
I got it. Now I know something about you.
I know that you smile.
When you look into the mirror.
I know that you laugh when you open...

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© Samir Raj  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sleep, creation, emotions, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Upon Remembrance of Things Past

When memories are memories long-lost,
     and when infancy's twilight hides what feels
like lifetimes in half-dreamt dreams, sleep storm-tossed
   ...

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Categories: sleep, childhood, dream, innocence, memory,


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