Loneliness Poems

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
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In life
one is always
balancing
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I was hoping to be happy by seventeen.
School was a sharp check mark in the roll book,
An obnoxious tuba playing at noon because our team
Was going to win at night. The teachers were
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Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
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Yearning for tenderness.
The one lost —It's so long -so long
Since..
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she died of alcoholism
wrapped in a blanket
on a deck chair
on an ocean
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The light wraps you in its mortal flame.
Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way
against the old propellers of the twighlight
that revolves around you.
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Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
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Look December
Don't ever come now!
Look, December
Deserts unnumbered have expanded in me.
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Old fathers, great-grandfathers,
Rise as kindred should.
If ever lover's loneliness
Came where you stood,
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The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."
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Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
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«Wer noch kein / Melancholiker ist, / Muß es hier werden»


At the first shadows upon Arcetri, step by step -absorbed
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When you are in the midst of darkness
Where loneliness engulfs your soul
Twinges of hopelessness felt
Chirping sound of crickets heard
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I shall die in Paris, in a rainstorm,
On a day I already remember.
I shall die in Paris- it does not bother me-
Doubtless on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.
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He sat there in the streaming light,
Silent, settled like the darkened night.
Rays channelled through the greys of ancient gloom,
Purifying his soul, natural hues of the moon.
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The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as a vulture hovers over a carcass, until he reached a beautiful lake surrounded by magnificent marble statuary.

He sat there pondering the water which poured from the mouths of the statues like thoughts flowing freely from a lover's imagination, and contemplating heavily his palace which stood upon a knoll like a birth-mark upon the cheek of a maiden. His fancy revealed to him the pages of his life's drama which he read with falling tears that veiled his eyes and prevented him from viewing man's feeble additions to Nature.
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Men say the world is full of fear and hate,
And all life's ripening harvest-fields await
The restless sickle of relentless fate.
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your heart beats shaped in a sorrowful poem..

filled by the heat of a hot ZONE, ..
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Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
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Loneliness is an epidemic,
Loneliness is terrible poverty,
And we find in loneliness increased risk of mortality.
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LONELINESS: THE CERTIFIED LONER
You may never cart away a knowledge about this term,
Neither will you amount an accurate definition for it, firm.
Not until you tumble into it's unclean pond.
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This illness is real
Afflicting a large swathe of the human spirit
Affecting both young and old
Loneliness is not a community-acquired disease
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We enjoy nature's beauty in solitude
Be it moon and stars, floating clouds

Loneliness is always with you
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-You said I was living all alone?

- Yes, I said so.
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
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I'm happy to
be lonely
I need to
be lonely for
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Oh this loneliness, this loneliness
That breaks my heart into a million pieces
That shakes my body like a storm
That makes my lips tremble like an aspen leaf
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Blessed Be the Lonely on Earth

Loneliness, loneliness, loneliness!
It is something we feel,
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There is a Loneliness of not being understood
There is a Loneliness of not being loved
There is a Loneliness of not being wanted
There is a Loneliness of being rejected
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