INSOMNIA POEMS
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Healing...
The kindest hearts pray for change
God didn't answer when it was Grey
The child inside me cried for so long
The world was actually not against me
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Nonkululeko Ngcobo
Insomnia
The moon in the bureau mirror
looks out a million miles
(and perhaps with pride, at herself,
but she never, never smiles)
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Elizabeth Bishop
Her Monsters
Her monsters, they come out at night
She tries not to fill her eyes with fright
Tugging under the pillow
Trying not to let the darkness make her feel low
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Tansi
Marburg
I quivered. I flared up, and then was extinguished.
I shook. I had made a proposal - but late,
Too late. I was scared, and she had refused me.
I pity her tears, am more blessed than a saint.
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Boris Pasternak
Insomnia
Heigh ho! to sleep I vainly try;
Since twelve I haven't closed an eye,
And now it's three, and as I lie,
From Notre Dame to St. Denis
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Robert Service
Shade
â??What does a certain woman know of the hour of her death?â?? - Mandelstam
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Anna Akhmatova
Willow
And I grew up in patterned tranquillity,
In the cool nursery of the young century.
And the voice of man was not dear to me,
But the voice of the wind I could understand.
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Anna Akhmatova
Haschisch
Behind the door, beyond the light,
Who is it waits there in the night?
When he has entered he will stand,
Imposing with his silent hand
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Arthur Symons
Insomnia I
Some nights it's bound to be your best way out,
When nightmare is the short end of the stick,
When sleep is a part of town where it's not safe
To walk at night, when waking is the only way
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Howard Nemerov
Zone
At last you're tired of this elderly world
Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Insomnia
Sleepless himself to give to others sleep.
He giveth His beloved sleep.
I HEARD the sounding of the midnight hour;
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James Thomson
Insomnia
Now you hear what the house has to say.
Pipes clanking, water running in the dark,
the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,
and voices mounting in an endless drone
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Dana Gioia
Insomnia
Thin are the night-skirts left behind
By daybreak hours that onward creep,
And thin, alas! the shred of sleep
That wavers with the spirit's wind:
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Highly Desireable
The boarder in the bar-room rose,
A pale gaunt man who lodged with Hann,
â??I bear,â? he said, â??the worst of woes,
And suffer torments no one knows,
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Edward George Dyson
Ghazal 02
Where is sensible action, & my insanity whence?
See the difference, it is from where to whence.
From the church & hypocritical vestments, I take offence
Where is the abode of the Magi, & sweet wine whence?
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Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
Mother
Ash falls on the roof
of my house.
I have cursed you enough
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Erica Jong
Highly Desireable
The boarder in the bar-room rose,
A pale gaunt man who lodged with Hann,
"I bear," he said, "the worst of woes,
And suffer torments no one knows,
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Edward Dyson
Insomnia
Heigh ho! to sleep I vainly try;
Since twelve I haven't closed an eye,
And now it's three, and as I lie,
From Notre Dame to St. Denis
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Robert William Service
Insomnia
My mind's neurogym at night
Keep kicking away my sleep
Insomnia triggers the flight
And i travel the earth so deep
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Lyna Salman
Insomnia
It seems that dawn will never climb
The eastern hills;
And, clad in mist and flame and rime,
Make flashing highways of the rills.
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Madison Julius Cawein
Redemption
I lay in insomnia's arms
as grief ran around my house.
Memory peered through my windows
whilst shame and regret knocked on the door.
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Qurasha Rajkumar
A Millionaire
Aw wodn't gie a penny piece
To be a millionaire,
For him 'at's little cattle, is
The chap wi' little care.
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John Hartley
Its Just A Pity
Its just a pity that education imeturniwa down, na hio tu ndo kitu youtman ako nayo na only ame invest,
I feel sorry for most actions that my peers go through ju wanafanya vitu hawana interest,
most times its a pity ju all dayunashinda idle insomnia imetake over you usiku ju ujachoka uezi rest
always ni kua compared na result zako tu za test
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Perez Bulinda
Insomniac
The slow rotating sealing fan caresses,
Mosquito’s pitch around my head stresses.
The thirst of sleep in early hours and no fill,
wailing and wander in quite without still.
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Robert Rittel
Confused Soul
Life snapped for a moment,
Clock! clicked right now.
Shocked! I was left behind,
while caravan moved on.
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Swaroop Shetty
The Dark Days
How do you sleep at night?
Knowing you are now a ghost tormenting her in her dreams.
How do you sleep at night?
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David Moses