All the world sleeps

By well-wisher

Tue, 13 Mar 2018
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Every night, within their nests,
little birds lay down to rest.
Wings, they stretch and beaks, they yawn;
don't wake till the break of dawn.
 
Little fish, too, lay their heads
down to rest on river beds;
shut up shell like eyes and sleep
and sink into a dreamland, deep.
 
Beasts of every shape and size
go to sleep and shut their eyes
from when the moon lifts up its horns
till mornings sunlight mane is worn.
 
Even plants and petalled flowers
soundly sleep through starry hours
so little children must as well
surrender to sleep's magic spell.
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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

An adorable poem which I very much enjoyed reading.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Very nice, but are you sure about the fish?! And, mathematicians and poets are awake when all the world sleeps. Remember Mr.Tambourine man.

In my craft or sullen art, exercised in the still night, when only the moon rages -Dylan Thomas