Restless wanderer



I am a restless wanderer
I lay down but never sleep.
My mind leaves my body
it wanders into the deep.
Thoughts, ideas, visions I have
making my world so small,
if I could live all day like that
it would be very off the wall.
Colours, light, darkness I see
variations of my reality.
Time stops then starts again
why does my mind need to bend
into insanity into creativity
into these illusions in the night?
My wandering will never cease I know,
until the time is right.

About this poem

I submitted many poems to poetry.com in 2008 but they’ve all seemed to have disappeared. This poem is about my insomnia.

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Submitted by Artistspalate on February 26, 2023

Modified on April 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCBDEFECCGHCIJI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 483
Words 104
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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