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For Nette Onclaud's Oxymoron Poetry Contest/ Sept. 2, 2025

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Alone In A Crowd

Around him is a multitude
of people who appear to be
with partners, friends or family.
Excited smiles display their mood.
He drifts along, solitary.
Among that throng, a ghost is he
whose dead wife’s face he can’t unsee.
Forlornness he cannot bury.

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David Drowley

September 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM

Congratulations! Simple and eloquent.

Krishnanand Guptar

September 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM

Congratulations on your top win in this contest with a touching poem depicting loneliness in the multitude. Cheers

Terry Miller

September 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Very touching Andrea, and a huge congratulations

Anne-Lise Andresen

September 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM

A beautiful poem, Andrea :) - Congratulations on your win in the contest :) - hugs

Paige Hind

September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Such a beautiful and haunting memory- and ending lines

Line Gauthier

September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM

A touching poem, Andrea ~

Terry Flood

September 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM

An awful lot of people would see themselves in this poem, Andrea. I suspect, few of those happy smiling people would even notice the somber guy passing by. A sad but very real observation. ‘Enjoyed’. Terry

Joe Maverick

September 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM

This is a reality for some Andrea, gou do justice To such here.' Gets me thinking of striving in life And futility also endurance.' Andrea my thiughts Are with you both, may your path even out.'

Andrea Dietrich

September 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM

Glad you like it. It has nothing to do with myself though. Just putting myself in others' shoes

CayCay Godwin

September 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM

You choose a unique, out of the box approach, at least to me because I didn't think of lonely as in partner had died. I'm sure she'll like this. Love ... CayCay

Jay Narain

September 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM

It is difficult to forget someone you really loved.

Joseph P. DiMino

September 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Well, when someone you love, deeply, soulfully, a combining of spirits...passes away...the best of you can die with them. Death by proxy. This one hit home. Any spark, to a dead heart, is welcomed. A needed reminder of still a degree of life. What makes us endearingly human...can also, to an outsider, seem pitifully weak.

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