It's now ten to four in the morning. After a couple of hours or so of slumber, the wide awake hat had ensconced my head and eventually I gave up and came down to say "Hi! Blogland!" Like you would. Like I did.
Okay. So I caught up with emails, but decided sleep was still not on the cards, so I let my mind do as it liked to my fingers on the keys. Imagine my surprise, when, after about a quarter of a hour, the following piece sat on my screen notebook. I idly counted, and yes - you guessed - it's fifty five words, and today's Friday! G-Man has a lot to answer for. He even takes over my sleep deprived mind without a by your leave...
I'm Not Counting Sheep
Three o'clock in the morning;
other people sleep,
but I sit at the keyboard.
What strange hours I keep!
I went to bed and nodded off,
but woke up two hours later
and spent a long while fidgeting
and peering down a crater
devoid of dreams or sleep or rest.
Insomnia is such a pest.
Longing for slumber,
ReplyDeleteTo fall into the arms of
Lasting nothingness
Hope you find your dreamland SOON!
jinksy, you are adorable!! this was so cute and so true...you did all of us a favor by posting this instead of turning on the telly :) now, get some rest, dear!
ReplyDeleteInsomnia is a pest but, one can get a lot done. Nice 55.
ReplyDeleteWhats worse?
ReplyDeleteInsomnia, or incontinence?
There ya go....
I do hate those nights when I am unable to sleep jinsky....only have had a few but I found those nights very long and the following days were completely wasted as I was so tired. So hope you are not like me and that you have a wonderful day today.....love your poem..Hugs
ReplyDeleteit's mid morning now and I bet you are snoring your head off? No? okay then, go sit in your favourite outdoor patch and listen to the birds.
ReplyDeleteInsomnia i wretched, I've been lucky, I slept between 2 and 6.30.
Sorry Jinksy.
i hope by now your sweet rest has found you. doesn't happen often to me but when it does i might as well not even fight it. great 55.
ReplyDeletemine is up...when you wake up. lol.
Somehow, it comforts me a little to know that others experience similar issues. I mean the sleep not the compunction to write poetry at odd hours. :)
ReplyDeleteJinksy! I was up at that hour as well! Albeit over here in this time zone... Had I had today off, I would have blogged. As it was, I might have finished a post and wanted to go back to sleep just about the time I would need to get ready for work. [sigh]
ReplyDeleteBut you're not a time waster, Jinksy, which is important. I hope sleep will come when your body really needs it.
ReplyDeleteSo are you telling us you are into automatic writing now?
ReplyDeleteI hope not.
Nicely done, my friend. I've learned to mostly stay away from my computer during bouts of insomnia. It's an hour-eater. But the temptation is always there.
ReplyDeleteYou always WRITE BEST, when you are awaken?
ReplyDeleteEXCELLENT!
Mine is here
Have a FANTASTIC FRIDAY now!
hugs
shakira
Not sleeping is only a problem if you have something to do or someplace to go, in the morning, for which you absolutely need that rest. Otherwise, I rather prefer being awake in the early AM - so peaceful, and good for introspection.
ReplyDeleteErratic sleep pattern has had its grip on me since year 2000. That is one reason I'm so weary all the time and as another blogger said: the next day is totally wasted.
ReplyDeleteYou and your quick mind! How do you do it so seemingly easy, coming up with these 'rhymers'?
Insomnia as a crater...an image with pitfalls. I like that.
ReplyDeleteJinksy, I have so been there. In fact, I'm there at least once a month. I remember my dad telling my teenage self, "Wait until you're older. You won't be able to sleep so much." I thought, "Oh, yeah, right." Turns out he WAS right about that as he was about so many things.
ReplyDeleteIf only I had the talent to write poetry (or prose) when suffering from insomnia. Instead, I end up playing stupid word games or solitaire. Love your poem! :D
ReplyDeleteYou're right, you might as well go with it and write about it. Happens to a lot of us.
ReplyDeleteAh, for me it's the URGE to check if there might be an email from a certain friend (who is abroad at the moment, 4 hours behind, which wakes me... I can't sleep again until I've checked. And then of course any comments for my latest post, and then what my commentators have posted...And so it goes on. And tired-eyed in the morning! Lovely poem as always.
ReplyDeleteJinksy, I think you have written a 55 we can all appreciate. Especially between the hours of 3:00 & 5:00am.
ReplyDeleteHi Penny. Sorry you have sleep problems. As we get older I guess we all do. Hilary may have the right idea though...? Liked your little poem. - Dave
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda glad you have some insomnia ... 'cause then you write really cute emails. : )
ReplyDeleteAt least you turned a negative into a positive, so it wasn't an entirely wasted time! How clever to utilise the experience by writing a witty complaint about it (smile). I do so hope you managed to rest up a little afterwards..
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed the poem, clever Jinksy. I sometimes get awakened far earlier than my usual rising time, but it's my cell phone ringing like mad at 4 a.m. because some person can't push the correct numbers. Same caller each time. Fortunately, it doesn't happen every day. Unlike you, however, I don't do anything as clever as writing a poem; I just start my coffee drinking earlier than usual.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt at all, that if only we could turn everything over to the subconscious mind, things would progress a lot more smoothly, interestingly an d surprisingly.
ReplyDeleteOh, my dear Jinks! If only we could all be so extraordinary, and pen such witty perfection when we were sleep deprived! You are incredible! Love, Janine XO
ReplyDeletethat crater you mentioned in the above post was the iceland volcano which kept me home from israel last weds....a free trip if i could find a plane in operation which i couldn't and my wife without a pass port, and a way around which would five cost five times as much as a direct flight over that wasn't going anyway>>>i think they knew i couldn't go and this is a rain check that never gets used.>>>sour grapes telss me" o posh, who wanted to go overseas anyways, all a bunch of tinker's dust
ReplyDeleteI think you are on 'down under' time!
ReplyDeleteI can identify with the sleep deprivation! It never fails that I'm wide awake at 2:00 a.m. But, I'm not ambitious enough to get up to do computer work, so, I just lay there for an hour. Drat! What a great poem. You're so talented!
ReplyDeleteJust stopping in to see what Jinksy is up to! I hate to miss any of the fun around here, you know! :-) ~Janine XO
ReplyDeleteImsomnia is definitely a pest... I am a sufferer too - but I never have a fabulous 55 to show for it! :0)
ReplyDeleteWell you made good use of the time sleep eluded you and you summed it up so well in 55 words!
ReplyDeleteNo poetry but I often suffer the same dilemma and decide to be utilize the time instead of fretting.
ReplyDeleteI am currently fighting blogger on several fronts which does not make for pleasant blogging. I'm sure it is my own inadequacies.
You certainly made the best of your sleepless wee hours! If only I were that creative an insomniac... most of my words at that hour of the day cannot be repeated, much less printed.
ReplyDeleteWell said... and boy, can I relate!
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