Top 10 Poems About Insomnia

11 08 2009

insomniaAfter laying in bed for what felt like an eternity, tossing and turning and finally just giving up and staring at the ceiling, I decided to get up and do something resembling productive. So here goes… 

According to Merriam-Webster

  • Main Entry: in·som·nia 
  • Pronunciation: \in-ˈsäm-nē-ə\
  • Function: noun
  • Etymology: Latin, from insomnis sleepless, from in- + somnus sleep — more at somnolent
  • Date: circa 1623
  • : prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep

 

Top 10 Poems About Insomnia (in random order) – click the author’s name to read the poem…

  1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  2. Elaine Feinstein
  3. Julia Darling
  4. Elizabeth Bishop
  5. Dana Gioia
  6. Charles Simic
  7. C. Nichols
  8. Osip Mandelstam
  9. Amphibolia
  10. Jim Daniels

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