Sleep Poem by Khairul Ahsan

Sleep

Rating: 4.8


A child goes to sleep,
When his mom sings lullabies.
Smiles in sleep, cries in sleep,
Wakes up when no more in need,
Of sleep.

A young man is deeply engrossed,
When his fiancee brushes her fingers
Through his hairs and hum a love song.
His eyelids droop as he feels drowsy,
Yet cannot sleep, just to keep company.

An old man dozes off to sleep,
When the barber in the salon
Uses his trimmer and the scissors
On his grey wispy hair,
Though there is no love song to hear.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Cassandra Jasmine 24 September 2013

Wonderful poem! I like the middle stanza, which reminds me of my oldest cousin.... Except he doesn't plan to get married any time soon. :) It's short, but I still like it!

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Noreen Carden 18 September 2013

Hello Khairul a lovely poem about the three ages of man well written

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Pradip Chattopadhyay 19 September 2013

an insightful glimpse of life's phases!

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Geetha Jayakumar 19 September 2013

Beautiful poem on Sleep for three stages in life..Loved reading it. Sir, please do write some comments for my poems too. Thank you.

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Laurie X3 19 September 2013

A young man, with the woman he desires, full of hormones, probably aware of more than the song and fingers humming running through his hair. Nice poem of changes.

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Khairul Ahsan 09 January 2014

@ Aftab Alam Khursheed, Thank you very much for reading my poem and sharing your thoughts. I am inspired.

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Khairul Ahsan 09 January 2014

@ Cassandra Jasmine, Thanks for reading my poem. Your comments are always sweet, and distinctive, and so is this one.

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Khairul Ahsan 09 January 2014

@ Sally Plumb Plumb, Your both comments are gratefully acknowledged and appreciated.

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Sally Plumb Plumb 08 January 2014

I imagined all these scenes... so vividly described.

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 26 September 2013

Now money is honey and sing lullaby most of we sleeps on the lap of evil knowledge and parish

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