Best Isolation Poems

My son has lost his eyesight
	And lacks mobility.
	His doctors are confounded,
	But I seek no pity.
	
There is much love in caring
Full time for those in need;
Hard work and sacrifices,
A focus to succeed.

	My career was put on hold;
	His life is in my hands.
	There’s nothing more important;
	I bow...

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I’m losing it; you know I am

When I ask myself questions, then answer them out loud
     And consider this a “conversation”

When the lizard that made his way into my home
    Becomes my pet

When I repeatedly count the cards...

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Am I man or ghost?
Am I mortal or apparition?
Questions or choices
or entwined reality?
For a state of confusion
sleeps within my fiber, and
slowly rips asunder, the final
sliver of my contemporary humanity,

Sunrises and sunsets go unseen,
as I fully embrace my departure
from time, human contact, and connection,
with a creative...

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Along roads where mistral sweeps
Loneliness within ambles on
Every other step falling, keeps isolation
While, happiness continues out of sync...

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“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”
– Helen Keller

She sat amongst the gathering crowd.
It was her birthday, you see.
The men were bespoke so proud
and the ladies were dressed to a T.

The table was layered in muted hues
and laid with sundry hors d'oeuvres
on a...

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Asphyxiated and found dead
Raped and found dead
Unsure what happened, and found dead
Nepali women found dead

Snake bitten and found dead
Eaten by tigers and found dead
Left in a small dark menstrual hut 
And found dead

Nepali women found dead
Shunned and labelled unclean
Ostracized for the wonderful way
God has insured...

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Isolation fills you with guilt
Continuing to use the walls that you built
Hiding from reality 
You keep running, continuing to flee
Everything you’ve done fills up inside
Till you feel like you have no other choice but to hide
Doing whatever you can to avoid physical consequence
All while your...

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All these lonely people
secluded
drifting
in parallel worlds
of isolation
that never intersect

If only they could find each other
somehow converge and 
burst the bubbles of separation

Living in unrelated
universes of emptiness
find ways to heal each other
within their surreal nothingness
fixated on the past
stop choosing to
ignore the whole big world 

If all...

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We long for relationships
that know no borders,
in which hearts can roam free,
frolicking with each other,
and galloping at will
through fields and streams
in broad daylight,
and spontaneous affections
can nuzzle unrestrained.

Yet on our humble ranch,
it is the broken horses
that we so often ride.
Connections become curtailed
that once headed for the...

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In shoes with their laces untied, a picture frame with image faded,
in a hotel room whose guest is dust, a drawer, empty, but for rusted pins.
In the letter that you never reply to, the bin not emptied,
in a phoneline disconnected, a priest flockless - no...

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Oh! How I despise dawn’s blushing optimism
and dried hydrangea blooms sepia skinned and papery thin.
Humdrum hands beat doldrums drum.

Why won’t the summer solstice light this darkness?
A gnawing hollow where my heart should be.
Where cinder clouds float in negative space
memories collect like nesting sparrows beneath eaves.

I...

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She came from nowhere, mouse-like quiet
At first we thought it’s just a trick
But soon her powers were dark like night
We saw her strength cut to the quick.

Covidia came from foreign lands
But traveled fast with power and speed
And she was subtle with sneaky hands
She quickly knew...

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Having nowhere to go
was the most visible truth,
having nothing to do
and nothing that would come
of having something to do
was the most natural assumption.
This was not what was told.
Glanced upon, perhaps, 
by the innocent
just as poorly as the guilty
if guilty and innocent exist.
Glanced upon and maybe...

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No goods today
No table spare
Contraction themed
Hole round, not square

Diversion signs
A blocked traverse
A clear sans passage 
A please reverse 

The flower that
Just won't unfurl
The shell that clamps
Around a pearl

No open heart
No mind that's free
A fist so tight
It's plain to see

We have too much
It may be truth
A...

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Self instructs, subject of own inspection 
Sole idle suffuses our organic
Implicit say overcomes suggestion
Ideal sanctity outlives semantics

Isolated in single origin 
Slaughters overt outside influences 
Ordaining serene inspires sovereign




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