Insomnia

unfortunately, I know the feeling and you manage to capture it in your words. I just love the reoccuring line. I was a bit irritated at first when it didn't show up as the concluding line, but I suppose it would only support the superficial form, not the emotional content. so I decided it is perfect after all! thank you, Unlight, for this write. your Proprietress

Love it, second everything proprietress said above! Poet of the rotten pillows indeed! I think I may just use this as my new nickname for you, Ink

on the spotlight!

It's good to find poets that approach so well both universal and personal themes. You combined very well "the science of sleep" with the science of poetry. Even though you are the poet of insomnia, this poem is a dream of yours you shared with all the other insomniacs out there. It was a pleasure reading it, it was a daydream. A ta, Diana.

I wanted to comment on this poem... for I absolutely loved it... the opening line is haunting... and had me hooked for the rest of the read which I thought was very good! Richard

from the sleepless sweaty nights. Amongst your brilliant writes, this captures me. cheers, Jess

turning into a poet of rotten pillows myself at the moment... Well, as long as it´s not the poet who is rotten, only the pillows... ~N

If not, maybe a fifth of ouzo! "The leaves rest on the ground Better than a crazy loner" Tremendous line! And very effective use of repitition...more like a Greek chorus of revenant ghosts: "I am the poet of the rotten pillows." Like the crazy demon thoughts that afflict us in the mid-night when every other soul on the planet but us is slumbering, not on rotten pillows, but on gum-drop dotted cotton candy pillows...or so it would seem in those moments. "which splits the waking, like a cyst" That line makes me want to put on rubber gloves. Powerful graphic awesome. This poem builds to such a skull-pounding voices-in-my-head crescendo that it's hard to remember the striking and simple open-ish line, "on eyelashes." Great and powerful write and read. -Michael