Insomnia And restlessness reign Filling the night With closed-eye hallucinations Moon, stars and black holes Cast their shadows on your face Ticklish webs of confusion Forcing you to face phantoms Leave the covers’ comfort Play grandmother’s footsteps In fizzing phosphene Pigeon steps in the dark © Kim M. Russell, 2015
Tag: Insomnia
A Poet’s Insomnia
Clock hands crawl tick creep Shadows clamour in the gloom The night’s devoid of sleep Bad dreams linger in the room Suffocating hope Engendering doom Words become phrases Couplets rhyme Wild fancy composes Rhythmic lines Quickened wits Perform poetic feats Wilful notions Tug at storm-tossed sheets At long last, ruffled by the sun’s first ray […]
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