Poems about Sleep and Insomnia Archives - The Cracked Door

03/17/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Why won’t my body
Let me fall asleep? Eons
Pass as I lay here.

Blast from the Past:

My feelings replay
On an endless loop, while my
Mind rushes about.

I’m too tired for words.
All I want to do is sleep
Z z z z z

Blast from the Past:

There it is! The thought
So excites me I forget
To then write it down.

I wanna
Sleep through the night,
Sleep through the day,
Sleep through the sun,
Sleep through the rain,
And then wake up to
Go back to sleep again

Blast from the Past:

My paradise sleeps
And finds me in
My dreams.

Wake up too early
Without enough sleep. Oh dream,
Don’t leave me so soon.

Blast from the Past:

My bed calls to me:
“Where are you? I miss your warm
Embrace. Come to me.”

Sleeping in after
Adventures throughout the countryside
A slow morning yawn

(I am feeling less literal in my syllable counts today.)

Blast from the Past:

Sleeping in, you learn
The extent to which the world
Spins on without you

Too much excitement
Late at night and now I can’t
Drift back into sleep

Blast from the Past:

Lying in bed
Trying to count my way to
Infinity…

Sleepy morning when
I can finally relax
After so much fun

Blast from the Past:

As I return home,
There is nothing for me, yet
There is everything

A night of bad sleep,
Then a day of much driving
What else till I can rest?

Blast from the Past:

Another day gone.
Unconsciousness welcomes me
Just for a while.

Dinner exploding
In my gut
I wake
Cramping

Blast from the Past:

I think I am now
Ready for sleep to find me
Finally

My eyes awake, and
My mind learns that no recent
Thought made any sense

Blast from the Past:

To sleep and then to dream
Venture beyond the world of
Possibilities