From The Ashes Of Your Phoenix

AS i wait for you
i have become an insomniac
for so many
trivial
justifications

for instance
writing so many poems
that alienate myself
from the world

i have been keeping hope against hope
that someday the dead shall rise from their graves

that love shall have a rebirth
from the ashes
of your phoenix

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Insomnia Etches Youth Blessings?

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

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Believe Me

believe me candice
i did not sleep last night
your sleeplessness
my mess
your fear my fright
i have taken all the sides
of my bed
made the lights dimmer
the room colder
the blankets thicker
i counted the sheep
and dreamt of
marshmallows

did you also think
of me?

let there be silence
between the lines
that talk much

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Wherever will the promised light be? Is there a paradise among the clouds maybe, rest in the wind, refreshment on the seabed? Where does the dark,the insomnia, the madness, the crying, the illness, the death finish? Where does God hide himself?

Menotti Lerro in The Poetry of Menotti Lerro (2011)
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He who wants to be famous will have many a sleepless night.

Tunisian proverbs
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Sunday Mornings

There is a silence heard only on Sunday Morn
As raindrops tease suns shine
At the first call of Dawn

As the favoured
Woodpigeon
Parades in sunday best
A reverends collar above a
Blushing pink chest

He calls with such eloquence through wood
And ticking time

As coo's dance with rainclouds
As eye's dance with sleep
As children swoon with sugar candy
As couples eye's
Dance with each....

Other

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poem by Karen Sinclair
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Hawking

god forbid were silent swear you wont tell a soul often i pretend im at peace with consequence more lies to make us confident in our judgment who will know who will notice us we lay awake in the paradox of our space where gravity bends light around the sun insomniacs in quest for true position we navigate with knowledge like god time cant be protected time is dangerous often i pretend im a clock and youre the hands more lies to make them understand were getting closer i feel like a god

song performed by Quitter
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A sleepless grace

A sleepless grace
~
It is in her quiet grace
the touch of her fair hand
the sleepless night
seems to pass so gentle
I look to her eyes
and find my soul rooted
deeply in place
like the chestnut tree
unmoving and steadfast
there for many a year
~
she holds my heart
in the realms of her own
the whispers of conversation
fill the gaps of silences
we talk of the day now past
and those days to come
we talk of the little nothings

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poem by Matthew Holloway
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The Poet Is Looking For Love Deep İn The Night

sometimes you may find
sincerity to a poem as to
the date when it is written,

the hour particularly tells you
that a poem is written when
everyone in the house is
fast asleep, and

that someone
cannot sleep, because he
has to write some words for
someone, who

too, cannot
sleep,

not really because they
are insomniacs, much less
vampires looking for blood,

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I Am Life

I am...
Committed.
To unlimitness to give it.
I am...
Seeking to be free.
Yeah.

I am...
Committed.
To unlimitness to give it.
And to admit...
The benefit.

I am...
Committed.
To unlimitness to give it,
And this seems to fit...
Me,
Just perfectly.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Back To Insomnia

back to sleeplessness
i come to you, and we talk a lot till morning
no coffee or smoke, just plain talking
and i have lots of things to share with you
my lost boyhood
so much time has been wasted on so many preparations
what father wanted what pleased mother
what made grandpa proud
and things too personal that to you i could only tell
how i wish i can go back to bed and have a nice sleep till noon
but i am simply a kind of a sleepless man wanting to talk to you
and here you are
wanting what i am and listening
too much interest in what i am saying and what i have to say
this loneliness
and guilt and
this wish for death

i could tell you like me, but how can i ever hold you
you are around me, words and words, and images and empty spaces

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Insomnia Withers Crystal Energies

insomnia
reflective time insights
laces prolific energies

in youths dreams
energies boundless
shape birth empires

research knowledge arts
glitter await hand grasps
worlds caught internets

flashes illuminate nights
age withers crystal energies
age restless cedes visions

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Sleepless nights

A cute wife- it tickles your pride.
It gives you some sleepless nights too.
05.04.2007

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

quote by Charles Kuralt
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Sleepless On My Pillow

I'm sleepless on my pillow
just thinking of you,
remembering just what it's like to sleep
the whole night through.

I'm not too bad in daytime
when you're not here.
But when the nights come
and you're not here

I think of you and wonder
how I'll fall asleep?
Don't want to turn the light out
for I know I'll just be

Sleepless on my pillow
just thinking of you,
remembering what it's like to sleep
the whole night through.

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poem by Edwina Reizer
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Beautiful Baby: Peace of Mind'' by. Kevin Mireles

She is 9 months
overdue.
Tossing and turn
rituals
every lunar sky.

Subdued
by her infinite
hallucinations
of giving birth,
a sleeplessness
is born behind her eyes.

Smothered
in silent pillows
remembering,
she conceives
how only his simple kiss
has ever felt right,

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poem by Kevin Mireles
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

quote by William Faulkner
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Curiosity Thy Name Is Ugliness

Those days,
The words and paths accompanied me.
Those days,
The words and insomnia were my companions.
How long and whereto
The carnal body goes along.
I am the every feature of mountains,
Oceans and wilderness.
My breath is the dew resting on leaves,
And Lo! Winds are busy
In wiping out my glistening foot-prints.

Look at my eyes,
They contain silence,
Of hundreds of extinguished grates
Once glaring bold.
I roamed bearing an inferno
In my breaths and thoughts,
Hauling my beacon of desire
Coated with blood.

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poem by Muhammad Shanazar
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Libbie

Shameless thief and sleepless night!
Listen to the linguist than a flirting wife;
For the thief comes to steal us all.

Sleepless nights and shameless theives!
Listen to the linguist than a flirting husband;
For the thieves come to rob us all.

Miscalculations!
With the red-light instead of the green-light:
But, my name is Libbie and,
Fairness is the right to tell the truth.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Did I Tell You That I Have Goiter?

it was accidentally discovered
when my arms felt numb

i have two nodules inside my neck
and still at 2 cm.

i am hyperactive, and i will be more of an
insomniac, so please understand
that i will be writing more senseless poems,

my therapy, but you may not read them,
it is alright.
i can manage my nights without you.

i am a wizard, an owl, i will be blacker than the night.
without you.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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