Murmuring Night

i stroll along
the stray pavements
of crowded and deserted
pathways staring about
like an insomniac doll

if i look confused
if what i speak
lacks clarity
it's because
i'm searching
i'm searching
for life and love

i know it's futility
as much as you do

i once tasted love and life
in fleeting moments though
now

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poem by Indira Babbellapati
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Night, Nights Sleepless

Night, nights sleepless eyes wide
sleep comes as disguise
Thou you asked love to
lend some happiness
fate has gifted you
sadness for life

Night, nights sleepless eyes wide
sleep comes as disguise
all boats are gone
and flooded away
your loved ones pierced
you with dagger of lies

Night, nights sleepless eyes wide
sleep comes as disguise
now why are you smiling
whilst bleeding tears
your sun is set
before even rise

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poem by Asif Baloch
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Sleepless Nights

Through these sleepless nights
i cry for you
And wonder who
is kissing you
Oh these sleepless nights
Will break my heart in two
Somehow through the days
I don't give in
I hide my tears
That wait within
Oh but then through sleepless nights
I cry again
Why did you go ?
Why did you go ?
Don't you know ?
Don't you know ?
I need you
I keep hoping you'll come back to me
Oh let it be
Please let it be

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song performed by Norah Jones
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Insomnia Conquered?

Suffering from difficulty sleeping?
An inability to easily fall asleep?
Or even unable to fall asleep at all?
Or to remain asleep long enough?
Enough to feel adequately rested?

You might be suffering from insomnia?

Your problem might be dread insomnia
especially when this is a problem that
continues over chronic periods of time?

The cause of course is varied.

Common causes will include
stress, marital tension, depression,
over tired, caffeine, new employment,
financial difficulties, redundancies,
work place difficulties, bereavement,

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Insomnia Revisited

A few more winks
Would do me good
A little more shut eye
If I only could

Perhaps a Latte
In the midst of day
Striving to revert my minds'
Sleeplessness

Puff a doobie
If it was legal
Pound a case of lager
Or swallow a Lunesta
Am I to live the rest of my days
Sleepless, still

poem by Matt Mondschein
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Sleepless Nights

Oh, theres a rude little lady
Livin next to me.
Oh, she sure loves someone,
But it aint me.
Evry night at twelve oclock,
They start to rock with all they got.
They keep it up all night.
It just aint right.
They o.k. by me, Im not.
He and she, they all right.
Once they start, they never stop
Through this sleepless night.
Once I was her lover.
It was so good to be.
Now shes got somebody else and I cant sleep.
Ooh, nothin hurts people more than other people do.
But what can you do?
Meanwhile, upstairs, they o.k.
Evrythin is all right.
I wish that I could find a way

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song performed by Kinks
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

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Sleepless Night

Oh, this sleepless night
why do you have to stay in my mind
even when I close my eyes
thoughts of you are flashing
like countless lightnings
all over the fiery sky.

Oh, this sleepless night
how can I ever make this end
how can I ever stop
thinking of you.

Oh you,
please come to me
and help me end
this sleepless night.

poem by Marites C. Cayetano
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Sleepless Night

Oh, there's a rude little lady
Livin' next to me.
Oh, she sure loves someone,
But it ain't me.
Ev'ry night at twelve o'clock,
They start to rock with all they got.
They keep it up all night.
It just ain't right.
They O.K. by me, I'm not.
He and she, they all right.
Once they start, they never stop
Through this sleepless night.
Once I was her lover.
It was so good to be.
Now she's got somebody else and I can't sleep.
Ooh, nothin' hurts people more than other people do.
But what can you do?
Meanwhile, upstairs, they O.K.
Ev'rythin' is all right.
I wish that I could find a way

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song performed by Kinks
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Behind Me Is The Past

I was lost
Feeling a little betrayed
Apathetic and agitated
My mind rarely swayed

I was malicious
Not resulting in remorse
Hunting and dependent
Your anguish was my source

I was broken down
Waiting for a pause
Unsettled and insomnious
Wandering without a cause

I was the fire
Without the water, earth, or wind
Isolated and irritated
Alone because I sinned

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poem by Jennifer Peckins
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A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Yasunari Kawabata in House of the Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories
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Dream

Nothing comes during a sleep above a dream,
You better wake up and face reality,
You never get ahead just laying around in bed,
What you can see you really can achieve.
Dream means a sleepless fulfillment though I wonder why,
You wake up out of the darkness and let life begin,
Oh dream means a sleepless fulfillment oh I wonder when,
Wake up out of the darkness and let life begin.
Some people are living only on hopes and dreams,
But youve got to wake up to the plans and scenes,
The journey of life is only one step ahead,
But you never get there tossing and turning in bed,
Youre facing the world with no plans for tomorrow,
And now youre wondering whats waiting around the bend.
Dream means a sleepless fulfillment unless you try,
Sleepers, they hold on t dreams while the world passes by,
Dream means a sleepless fulfillment (though) unless you try,
Sleepers, they hold on to dreams while the world passes by.
Dream means a sleepless fulfillment though I wonder why,
Sleepers hold on to dreams while the world passes by, one more time,

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Insomnia:A Sextet

On Reading Cioran

Leaf caught in a branch of ice,
I am unsleeping,
heroic,
neither dead, nor dreaming,
awake.

I exist when I
don't sleep,
it makes me feel
you there,
me watched.

You think because you
are not God,
I don't know you.

But I've been here as long as you,
I know the territory:

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poem by Ioanna Carlsen
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the insomniac song of Myke O.

Another insomnia night
till dawn

in the morning you
finally sleep

there is a bee
encircling a flower
growing from the
mouth of your
snores

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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In My Own Little World

i sleep.
i need sleep.
the more i need sleep
demand to sleep

lousy thoughts
insomniac maniac

sleep goddess
cruel

she has removed
the covering of my eye

even in sleep
i am awake.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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10:43 P.M. My Country's Time

another insomniac song
from a hard bone

wooing the softness
of your lightness

feather floating
on the winds of chances

let me sit and watch
when your feather
finally lands
on my lap

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

quote by Joseph Wood Krutch
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Lost Way

Sleeplessness swallows slumber,
to disencumber the mummer’s
fear of fear, fear of end of indian summer,
follows the night that swallows the night which swallowed nights without number.

Night melts into day
as the hours devour
life’s fragile flower
whose minute petals
peal peel away
as each second settles
one by one as one. Our stay -
be it floral bower,
or doomed to cower sour
behind bars metal, -
proves brief holiday
showing our mettle
pointless as the play
is doomed to nettle
disappoints, unsettles,

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Insomnia! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Destroyed the physical
Evidence of our love;
What to do with
Ones etched in memory?

Like an insomniac
Who lies wide awake
In bed,
I too dread the
Night…

Wish could delete
At the click of a key.

poem by Mamta Agarwal
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