Best Isolating Poems

*The Dead Poet*

Many blocks along the road, 
Kicking down walls of heavy stones, 
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...

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What color are you?
You! You! You! You! You! You! I could do this all day. Smirk.
I am not talking about hair color, eye color, or...

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"The Epiphany Rose"

All well and good,
the story unfolds;
the isolating madness 
drew out the poets 
in all the shunned
playing up and out 
their origami
word games

something like...

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When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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You ask how I really am when you damn well know,
My world is crumbling right now.
But I'll be fine,
Just give it some time,
Just take it...

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On April 26th I was born,
In a world more than a hundreds years scorn, No healin' up
They sho' was pealin' up, casted the line and...

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She wanders through life isolating 
Hanging by a thread from the moon
Swinging quietly silently she's waiting 
For her day she knows will come soon

Reflections of...

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Twenty twenty a very strange year
From March onward most living in fear
You will all know what I'm talking about
COVID 19 I hear you all shout

It...

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in the desolate
          solitary hours
    when fear trickles down my spine

  time...

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Political leaders take countries to war,
making decisions that are political, 
done to ensure they are voted for, 
domestic approval and nothing more. 

Biden couldn't have...

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The winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was, with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest, of...

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Traveling through the jaded discourse
With bartered pen and little remorse
Brandishing sharpened scalpel; tour de force
Unabashedly seeking all texts from lexicon to divorce

Developing underlying themes to...

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Spring
rainy, rejuvenating
planting, growing, blooming
showers, flowers, gardens, picnics
playing, running, camping
warm, humid
Summer
muggy, tropical
traveling, sightseeing, exploring
sun, vacation, Halloween, leaves
raking, burning, harvesting
windy, colorful
Autumn
brisk, pleasant
baking, canning, storing
pies, Thanksgiving, Christmas, stockings
shopping,...

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Feminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.

A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most...

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My grandparents' grandparents,
all sixteen,
digging roots through cultural meristems,
young adults,
adolescents during Time's 1880's,
post Civil War birth of Sir James Crow monoculture.

What would we name this self-hatred,
this...

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