Turn [Haiku]

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An Haiku today. 

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Turn [Haiku]         -        07 Nov 22

Calm in the mind's eye

Seeing the world turn again

Not able to sleep 

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Sleep is not my problem. 

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Autumn Lullaby [Haiku]

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A time when most trees and animals tend to slide into sleep.

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Autumn Lullaby [Haiku]       -       04 Oct 22

Taken into sleep

gently, words of the winds an 

Autumn lullaby

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Wake me up in spring.

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Fevered Thoughts

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Sometimes I cannot be certain of where I am.

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Fevered Thoughts         -        12 Aug 22

Drifting in and out

Of sleep 

Watching clouds 

In primal forms

Slide past 

Visiting places

I once inhabited 

Wondering why 

I am returning

To them 

Fevered thoughts

Perhaps

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I do not want to go back. 

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Lover Awaits

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A dream can be a Lovely place. 

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Lover Awaits       -       01 Jul 22 

Close my eyes sweet sleep 

Take me to the dream 

My Lover awaits me 

I have heard her call 

Often through the day 

Now night whispers 

The soft spell and 

Song of Love 

To summon us 

To be together 

In our dream 

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Especially when the Lover is there with you.

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Owl Calls

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One of the friendly sounds of night.

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Owl Calls       -        31 May 22

Hold me through the night 

As the owl calls 

In the dark of the Moon 

Tell me of the silver dreams 

That await 

Whenever we close our eyes

Let me sleep with you 

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A feathered lullaby. 

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Whispers In The Night

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Only for you and I.

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Whispers In The Night        -        30 Jan 22 

Can you hear me 

Whisper your name 

In the night 

When we are preparing 

To sleep 

Five thousand miles 

Is nothing but a whisper

My whispers in the night

Always call to you 

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Just listen.

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Songs Of Night

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Enchantment, can you hear? 

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Songs Of Night      -      05 Apr 21 

In the night

When all else 

Is calm and quiet

Some gentle sounds 

Can be heard

Songs of the spirits

The guardians 

Of the world

Weave their spells 

Of protection

Sweet songs of night

To be heard 

Within and around

The wakeful 

As they slip into sleep

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Can also be an effective lullaby. 

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Sailing On A Dream

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Taken back to a distant time.

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Sailing On A Dream      -     15 Mar 21

Tasting the salt air

Listening to the gulls

Shrill calls and watching

The ocean gentle swell

The dream takes me

Sailing to you

I sleep on

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A dream I am happy to return to often.

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Often Night

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Too often this has happened. 

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Often Night      -     02 Feb 21 

More frequently than the 

Day suggests 

Sleep is disturbed 

And often night 

Vanishes into a tumble 

Of fractured repeating thoughts 

Dreams are shunned 

Only to return 

When sleep is restored 

Waiting now 

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The good thing is that when sleep is restored it deep. 

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Moving To Midnight

When I am awake, alone.

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Moving To Midnight     -   03 Aug 20 

Seeds of sleep have been sown 

In minds other than mine 

Taken root and growing well 

But for me nothing 

The day has ended 

Darkness shrouds everything 

In the world 

Moving to midnight 

No stars lead the way 

Just dark 

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This is not a thing which affects me. 

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Songs In The Night

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She is always there for me. 

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Songs In The Night     -    05 Jul 20 

In a quiet moment 

In a period of chaos 

I hear the quiet songs 

Sung by a special angel 

To give me rest 

In the night 

I am grateful 

As I slip into sleep 

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At other times she talks with me. 

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Dreaming You

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Thoughts about my special person. 

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Dreaming You     -    15 Feb 20 

I do not need to sleep 

To see you in my dreams 

The flow of my reality 

Brings you to me 

I live 

Dreaming you 

My dreams are my reality 

My reality is my dream 

I am always 

Dreaming you 

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Awake or asleep. 

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Owl Whispers

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Heard but not seen, a whisper in the dusk. 

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Owl Whispers     -     29 Nov 19 

Secret places hidden in the Heart 

Sharing the moment of moonrise 

Owls whisper a song of sleep 

As the wind leads the sun 

Into the cold sky 

One owl whispers the spell 

To carry us all 

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I find owlsong fascinating. 

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Spectres Feasting

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Banquet in the night.

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Spectres Feasting   -   27 Sep 19

Behind the veil of rain
Dark clouds gather and swirl
Dawn forced to wait
Upon the pleasure of night
Cold winds force their way
Through gaps to howl
At the banquet of sleep
Where spectres feast

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They do not like to be watched by mortals.

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Wind Song

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I listen to the song.

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Wind Song   -   08 Sep 19

You are the song
The wind sings for me
As I slumber awaiting sleep
I hear the words
Carried on the breath
Of the windsong
Held in my dream
I hear you
The song

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You are my favourite song.

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Random Words

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Words from the one special person.

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Random Words    -    20 Jul 19

I hear you often
As I try to sleep
Alone
Your words
Random calling in my Heart
Ask me to join you
In our dream together
I hear you

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The words are so very clear.

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Ocean Dreams

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Continuing the dream theme.

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Ocean Dreams     -    23 Jun 19

How long a night
When an ocean dreams
Can bring silence to the waves
When will she rest and sleep
Still waiting in eternity

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Is eternity long enough?

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Dreaming Things

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Dreams go in both directions.

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Dreaming Things    -    23 Dec 18

Unfocused images
I fall into dream
Fragmented thoughts
Kaleidoscopic forms
With repeated themes
Run through my eyes
Dance across my mind
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Dreaming things
Try to wake
But my dreams
Dream me
And keep me in sleep

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This happens quite often, I find that the dreams dream me.

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Songs Of Distant Lands

A song with a science fiction flavour.





Songs Of Distant Lands  -  21 Apr 18

Far away Earth

Still calls me

Every night

As I prepare to sleep

Her songs

Still evoke

Strong memories

Of distant lands

Would that I could be

Back there again

Journeying somewhere.

In The Morning

My days are shifted round and my night is in a different time to everyone else.





In The Morning  -  17 Apr 18

My usual time

Bed calls

Sleep beckons

Daylight whispers

Sleep well

In the morning

I sleep

It works for me.