"hypnagogia" poems
My depression is a state of craving eternal sleep.
but in a constant hypnagogia's state.
Every night I cry and die, and in my eyes,
all I see is you, in all life's glory.
all I see is you, in all death's torment.
Trapped in enteral song,
of 𝓭𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷
Jun 1, 2021
Jun 1, 2021 at 10:32 AM UTC
Between the conception and the creation
Falls the Shadow.
Blinding lights, a crowded terrace,
Flickers, music, ballroom dance
Suddenly, the image shatters -
Darkness, rest from unknown lands.
S-spiralling-ing down to nimbus
Infinity yet to explore
Commotion woke me from my dreams
and left me yearning for ____________
Jan 26, 2017
Jan 26, 2017 at 5:12 PM UTC
gather up the things you lust to love
and become the world's loneliest human
just for a night
in a room with blue lights
where so many others have once slept
as simple cloud sheep
when the eyelashes filled themselves with hypnagogia
late late late at night
ad slowly poured (and poured, and poured)
somnolent paint onto the walls
which fainted and licked the floors
rabbit and ft
Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 6:29 PM UTC
Semi-conscious, muddy clarity
voices like static
buzzing, monotone droning
singing, sustaining single notes
whispering their sinister intentions
or moaning, screaming
“Who am I, what am I, where have I gone?”
A single voice to clear the static:
“I’m right here.”
A pause.
“Right behind you.”
Unsettling and dark
dripping poison on his lips,
a serpent, fallen, far from a protector.
Breathing ceases, pulse increases...
So this is what it’s like to be seen by demons.
He stares into my soul, the deepest recesses
the darkness dressed in best intentions
the gilded rotting apple of my heart...
A final chilling stare
he fades away to haunt me in my sleep.
May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 12:06 PM UTC
Sweet beautiful machine behind the woods,
chuckle with tears and carries a barren womb,
"Do you regret the Unlife?". I shouted.
And a soft voice whispered "No".
I have not seen the crows singing to the corn,
I believe in nothing, and nothing at all,
"Do you fear the sky?". I thought.
And a soft voice whispered "No".
Your harmony pleases the pace of the trees,
I have forseen all of this inside of a dream,
"Are you even trying to see me?". I asked.
And a soft voice whispered "No".
Spreading those legs of yours around my neck,
I kiss the cave of wonders as if were a threat,
"Is everything fine, my love?". I licked.
And a soft voice whispered "No".
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 1:36 AM UTC
The time period between being awake and being asleep
This mystical place that so little beings remember:
It's the place that I could live in for the rest of my life
For it is neither reality or a dream
A time that is neither dark nor light
Neither good or bad
The world of in between
Everything is neutral
It is the world of calmness
Nothing to worry
Nothing to be afraid of
It's the only place I can find solace
The place without sadness and loneliness
But also free of the nightmares
Undisturbed by the morbid images my mind creates
And untouched by the anxiety, loneliness, and pain of this cruel world
A place where no person can take me away from
A place where no creature can lay a claw on me
Gates between consciousness and unconsciousness
Guard this place of sanctuary
I would like to stay here,
This, I would want to make my home
But waking is too demanding
And sleeping is too necessary
I wish my home would be Hypnagogia
A place where you never sleep
You never wake
And you never dream
Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 6:10 PM UTC
Somewhere between my subconscious and hypnotized reality
I sleepwalk down the memory lanes
Amidst the darkness of a lost cause
I move in circles searching for something I can't remember
Is it the perfection personified or just my memories of you
A soul so pure and a heart so warm
A beauty so rare and eyes so expressive
A touch so caressing and voice so soothing
A fragrance so sedating and a presense so completing
And in the shimmering lights of your glow
I move my tremoring hands just for a touch
For a belief I would trade my chance to be with thousand angels
That you are real
But it was just a shadow I was touching
You vanish like the ripples in the mirage of uncertainty
And I keep following you in circles till eternity
Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 8:58 PM UTC
I am half-awake in the August rain,
the last strain of summer squeezed
into my glass and cooled with ice.
It is nice. To be up this early with
the morning news, Palestinians and
Jews at war over berries and wheat
in the broken streets of Gaza.
The cats are sleeping on the suite,
ears pinned up for a flash of sound
or stench of meat. My brother is
planning his moves for the future
against the ways I have failed in the past.
I have been half-asleep in debt and
addiction. I have buried myself in a
dream of words; into worlds of
all-talk and no action. I am no longer
a fraction of beer bottles and ashtrays,
fantasies of easy lays, or notebooks left
incomplete and full of cancer fears.
They are in tears; brown-skinned and
forgotten rights, a desolation site
of ground-zeros and a desperate fight
for life. Depleted uranium laces lungs,
as well-versed tongues in heavy suits
kiss the shoes of the corporate brutes.
As empathy trickles down in political
verse, a hypnagogic curse for liberal thought
and consciousness. They are forecasting
sorrow as the sun comes up, to detach
from our Earth, and the late summer rain.
Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014 at 6:06 AM UTC
Language
has come & gone
without
sophic discernment
for the fluidity
of her archetype
or
the stain of her touch
she-wolf in pain
but in love
in wine
or poetry
she becomes
a hundred thunder blessed
tongues
smoothing stones
in river beds
yet to be ******
newly hatched moments
in time
have missed the salvo
of rain
turned instead
pixels to temples
hypnagogia learned
a new dialect
oh yes
language has come
and is gone...
she slit our throats
whilst we dreamt
in the bliss
of ignorance
© Amber Dawn
Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 2:34 PM UTC
I like staying in hypnagogia--
between sleeping and waking up.
I feel happy,
not conscious,
not dreaming.
Because the thing about reality is
it's not a dream,
and the thing about dream is
it's not real.
(fohn)
Dec 28, 2017
Dec 28, 2017 at 12:08 AM UTC
That night, the moon and stars were barely visible through the clouds. That night, you said you were glad that neither of us were in our own beds. The words came out slowly in broken fragments and your voice was raspy in hypnagogia, yet somehow it still sounded like a euphoric dream. That night, every inch of our bodies were touching and even when it was almost physically impossible, I somehow still had the intense yearning for you to be closer. Now it's 1:13 AM, and tonight, I am in my own bed, feeling empty and craving your arms around me. And you're in your bed with cloudy thoughts and constellations made of cravings I'm unsure of...
Is it selfish of me to hope that we are seeing the same moon?
Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 2:17 AM UTC
Remember this day,
Like worn off tires
I woke up without opening my eyes
Under the guise, known faces did not rise
Talk empty speak
Movement past motion
If you told me I would not believe
The life I would live
Ghost of the past they shall not revive
Rejoice the wise whom present connive
Lucid veneers
Through memories, oh sieve
The non-touch of its kiss
Bare bodies, voids of peace
Caprice longing never to cease
Awake still at sleep.
Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019 at 1:12 AM UTC
Underneath the clouds
But stumbling above the ground.
I quietly shout
What’s keeping me around?
What keeps me silhouetted in the background
Of your fickle heart and your crown?
When I open my eyes,
A blurry masquerade of a reality unmade.
I can’t tell if I’m awake.
And I can’t tell if I made a mistake.
I’m putty in your hand
At home with the ******
I can’t tell if I’m awake.
And I can’t tell if I made a mistake.
And I can’t tell if I’m insane.
Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019 at 1:58 PM UTC
stuck in an hourglass of identity,
muffled hustling around my eyelids
head buried deep in the shifting sand,
my body wrestles with the happening
stiff legs pulled by horizontal gravity,
brain soaking, turning into electric mush
my eyes bleeding in black as it is
only in my dreams, that I can feel alive
lied naked on the slippery floor of reality,
dipped in and out of the pool of mind
fractals slowly falling off from my vision,
then swaying freely in the air
freed by a different form of mortality,
face sinking, melting into familiar figures
what's hidden below and behind evaporates
to every corner of my shut, rapid eyes
I feel every fibre of peace,
every time the world disentangles from its name
knowing they are all but shapes projected
for the hazy buzzing screen,
that is my present
Dec 17, 2019
Dec 17, 2019 at 4:36 PM UTC
Trapped in Autumn
Space between a blink and a tear
Your nails across my skin
You never read what you've written
Jan 3, 2018
Jan 3, 2018 at 6:46 PM UTC