Sleepless Nights

(boudeleaux bryant/felice bryant)
Thru the sleepless nights I cry for you
And wonder who is kissing you
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart again
Somehow thru the day I dont give in
I hide the tears that wait until
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart again
Why did you go why did you go
Dont you know dont you know I need you

song performed by Emmylou Harris
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Sleepless In Mindanao Island

the mind is nude
the air is warm
inside this darkness
a single lamp
flickers... i am sleepless
again in Mindanao island

the last window is closed.
the monitor lights and blinks
and the sound of the keys
start to run, fingers playing
on words, words
making love with thoughts
the ecstasy is felt once,
twice, and then the rapture
of beauty, the dance of grace,
the steady trickle of
emotions, there is music

this poem for you.

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

quote by Patty Duke
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Sleepless Night

Sleepless night
The moon is bright
All Im asking for is
Three minute love
Legs
What am I going to do with my legs
Theyre so hot
They wont stay on the cot
And theyre screaming!
Sleepless night
The moon is bright
All Im asking for is
Three minute love
Head
What am I going to do with my head
Its so light
It just gives me the fright
Its full of champagne and dreams
Sleepless night
All um umm

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song performed by Lennon John
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The Seven Shortest Poems In The World

Thought:

Brain
Train

Architecture:

Brick
Trick

Bad Habit:

Quit
It!

Insomnia:

Nap
Gap

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poem by Paul Hartal
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Sleepless in suburbia

Sleepless in suburbia
~
quiet little thoughts
play out in a suburban town
hours pass by unnoticed
day becomes night
and thoughts continue
sounds of strangers passing
beyond the window
beyond the walls
traffic and daily life
a crescendo of noise
fills out the soundtrack
a handful of stories echo
into their own lives
pieced together not entirely
by a restless mind
sleepless and listening
sleepless and imagining
while suburbia is thriving

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poem by Matthew Holloway
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Sleepless Night

Mm, oh!
Mm-mm! - mm-mm!
Sleepless night, moon is bright,
All Im asking for is three minute love.
Oh, legs!
What am I gonna do with my legs?
Theyre so hot, they wont stay on the cot and theyre screaming!
Sleepless night,
All Im asking for is three minute love.
Ah, head!
What am I gonna do with my head?
Its so light, it just gives me fright,
Its full of champagne and dreams.
Sleepless night, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, all Im asking for is three minute love.
This brush must sell like crazy!
I mean, theres a lot of lonely people out there, you know.
I wanna go to the ball, I wanna give it all,
I wanna take it all.
Oh, oh, oh.

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song performed by Yoko Ono
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Sleepless Song

The night approaches
And with it the sleep
That only fitfully comes -
Rest rides reckless
'Til stilled
By the rising sun -
When morning calls
Rise to see
Another all new day -
The insomniac replies
'Tis my only desire,
To sleep it all away -

poem by Smoky Hoss
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Far Within Us #5

The nights are running out of darkness

Steel branches grasp
The arms of passers-by

Only anonymour chimneys
Are free to walk the streets
Which slice across our sleeplessness

In the gutters our stars decay

Trans. by Anne Pennington

Anonymous submission.

poem by Vasko Popa
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

quote by Werner Herzog
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The Brown's Man's Nocturnal Anxieties

brown man with thick lips
flat nose and bold eyelashes

your face rests on your right arm
you need sleep
you can't

tomorrow is still filled
with anxiety

the night will be insomniac
your eyes are suspicious always

when the lights are finally turned off.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Insomniac Heart

In amongst the sleepless hour
Where a pensive thought persists
Where are you my hearts companion
To aid me to a peaceful sleep
Time tortures the tired mind
And all my thoughts are of you
Silently I hold off tears
I miss you, wish you were here
I lay awake staring into nothing
Imagine what a conversation with you
Could do to ease my worried heart
Sleepless in all its anxiety
My heart and I wait for you
And waiting seems eternal
As though to never end
A sleepless heart and a restless mind
And my thoughts are of you
I miss you, I need you
Love you

poem by Matthew Holloway
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Come my love my utopia

This world seems like dystopia
Come my love my utopia
Drive away my insomnia
Drive away my inertia
I have left old Arabia
You are my Abyssinia
You are my love's sweet mania
Conquer my heart's whole area

poem by Asif Andalib
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Insomnia A Blessing Curse

insomnia
vibrations dissimilar
spectral shade

ink etching insights
roaming ghost nights
may be blessings

for chosen youths
swapping day for night
forsaking sunlight

hanging out friends
meeting heart pulse legions
in night clubs parties

social orbs
circles bonds
interactions

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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A bed of thorn

Baby my life is like a bed of thorn
If I had a choice I would not be born.

Oh my love is like a bad heartache
It reminds me always what I lack.

Oh my eyes are like thirsty sand
No one gives me her tender hand.

Oh my nights are full of sleeplessness
Cause my everything is in a mess.

poem by Asif Andalib
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Sleeplessness and Peaceless

Not enough of them can resign.
They have design segregation...
That undermined these troubled times.
And if they leave feeling pleased of their efforts...
Their shallowness and crimes,
Will come to haunt them.
And this
Days ahead...
Can not be avoided,
In their sleeplessness and peaceless beds!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Depression and Insomnia

Depression slowly grows into obsession
 which turns into aggression of self-mutilation.
Insomnia grips the soul,  with Its fingers that are icy cold,
Depression hurts and it slowly kills- self destruction that rarely heals.

poem by Sierra Brinlee
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The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

quote by Eriq La Salle
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If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

quote by Dicky Barrett
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Yet Another Rebirth

when i woke up from
a night of insomnia
i found myself surrounded
by the newness in
my environment
and the newness i found
in you and me

then i understood
that i died once again
to take yet another birth...

09oct2009
13.21

poem by Indira Babbellapati
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