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Phia Sep 2024
in my dreams
i am drowing in a sea of emotion.
my head held just below the surface of the water
and all i have to breathe through is a straw
i have these intense nightmares. In my dreams my chest feels heavy and i scream and scream but nothing comes out. It's like the air is getting shoved back into my lungs and I can't breathe. It feels like i'm suffocating and i wake up in a panic.
Eleanora Sep 2024
I woke up alone
And to tell you the truth,
I fell asleep that way too.

But then
The in-between.

I stood at my kitchen window
And I heard the distant voices
And forgot for a moment

The way you’d forget a kettle on the stove
But here I am now,
The whistling in my ears
Shrieking in a syncopated curse,
Alone again alone again alone again alone again alone again
David P Carroll Sep 2024
Silent whispers
Through the night
Lull me to sweet slumber
And dreams
Of me dancing
Under the moonlight.
Sleep 😴😴
Alexis K Jul 2024
Sleeping is nice.
Until I wake up.

But for a moment,
My mind and body don't scream.
I don't have to fight.
That is,
Until I wake up.
Jamie K Aug 2024
I do not know sleep.
Captured by unholy night,
suffering Stockholm.
https://arewe.love/rs/haiku-no-1/
Valentine Aug 2024
i will continue sleeping
and the wild horses will keep on running
with each gallop of their hooves
they'll match the clap of my heart
until they trip over themselves
with exhaustion
breaking their ankles
and never rising again
Mandi Wolfe Aug 2024
He sleeps
I want to stay mad
I really really want to stay mad
I don't want that as much as I want to fill out my kids' emergency medical forms for school
Or as much as I want to throw away the trash from the counter
Or as much as I want to pace the kitchen floor for an hour.
Or as much as I want to lay down my arms and tell him the truth of what hurts.
Or as much as I want him.
But he wants sleep.
Seems reasonable enough.
I want sleep.
Boys ****- it's embarrassing as **** to still be saying that and writing ****** sad poems about it at 36.
neth jones Aug 2024
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i launch from within                                                           ­                   
      the critical business of sleep and dreamwork          
                                                   and into the pre-furnished day
mucus skin                                            
like the first gobbed up evolver   to get turfed up on the beaches
i let go the veils   of those true solving agents
the motions     those treasurable scenes
of bloom and swoon tidal theatre
                     they disperse
and i tough out a self applied                      
                                   ­        measured  and subservient routine
          a hasty and unrewarding approach to   'productive'  business  
                                                              it­ brings me distaste
but   cements me in shared society
passer bys throw up their greetings
                                and i heave 'hellos' in return
OpiaOnism Aug 2024
Dream
F and I. in b/w.

Have we put an end
to
all

of this?


Yesterday pink today black.


Streets soaked in blood.
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