Category: Poems about Sleep and Insomnia

09/14/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Mohammad Mardani

I woke up this morning to darkness
Where am I? What am I doing?
The world feels quiet, like an absent dream
What should I do now?
I sit up before realizing that I would rather go back to bed
To that bed where my rescinding dream invites me back
Where neither time nor light matter
Where I do not need a purpose to keep going

Blast from the Past:

The wave meets the beach.
Is it a beach without sand?
You’re dreaming again.

09/05/25 A New Than-Bauk for a New Day

Photo Credit: Soheb Zaidi

It’s here I wait
At the gate where
My late bus isn’t.

I just look on
Eying dawn as
A yawn consumes

They all still sleep
Few cars creep past
No peep from them

If my eyes take
A quick break, will
It snake right past?

Today’s poem is a than-bauk.

Blast from the Past:

Once again I face
The dauntingly simple task
Of falling asleep…

07/21/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Jakob Owens

I suffer from life
Heavy eyes and empty brain
The roads are traveled

Blast from the Past:

When sleep finally
Catches up to me, I’ll rest
For eternity

06/04/25 A New Waka for a New Day

Photo Credit: Adrian Infernus

I sit on the bed
Tired, my eyes hurt, my head spins.
It is when I stop
I feel all the exhaustion
Now all built up within me

Today, I wrote a waka instead of my usual haiku.

Blast from the Past:

In the search for wonder
There are no endings
Only beginnings,
Eternal exhaustion