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

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

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

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

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

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. Homer. Taut Canvas.

Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.
Half the catalogue of ships is mine:
that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line,
that once rose, out of Hellas.
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Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
-march Days Return With Their Covert Light-

March days return with their covert light,
and huge fish swim through the sky,
vague earthly vapours progress in secret,
things slip to silence one by one.
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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda
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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Nocturno (nocturne )

Spanish

Fuera, la noche en veste de tragedia solloza
Como una enorme viuda pegada a mis cristales.
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Delmira Agustini
Five For Country Music

I. Insomnia

The bulb at the front door burns and burns.
If it were a white rose it would tire of blooming
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Lisel Mueller
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
Straw

I

When you are trying to sleep, Solominka,
In your enormous bedroom, and are waiting,
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Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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

Sleepless himself to give to others sleep.
He giveth His beloved sleep.


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James Thomson - (bysshe Vanolis)
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
The Witch In The Graveyard

Scene: A forsaken graveyard, by moonlight. Enter two witches.



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Clark Ashton Smith
Insomnia And I

I wish i was certain
For i am not
If i knew you
If i ever did
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Zaina Batool

Zaina Batool
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

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

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

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
Trump's Reelection

I
A trader today
Told me Trump's reelection bid
Gives him insomnia
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Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi

Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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

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

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

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?
.....
David Moses

David Moses