Best Lonelier Poems


Premium Member If This Was the Last

i remember all of our first times
all of our poems

i've always been safer in air
yet you kept me afloat in rushing tides
but
without your beautiful silhouette 
eyes see sadness in indigo weeping waves
the whole ocean seems empty to me
unable to stroke like a butterfly
i'm drowning in ripples of loneliness

wondering if that was the last
time I would gaze into your brown eyes

i was lost in your arms now i'm annoyed at being found

labyrinth of lament is a boat trapped in a glass bottle
love is an analogy of two hearts
fate a game of chance without luck

was it the last time
i would roam in your flower garden 
feel heartbeats from your chest
rest upon the softness of your breasts

aroma of your sensual skin still caresses my fingertips
as your memories comfort like a winter scarf

if only it was your lips on my coffee cup
your kiss to soothe the bitterness

yet i'm lonelier than the summer moon
burning away like a fading star
ageing in the transgression of time
grey strands overcoming my appearance 

was that the last time
i would wipe your tears
hold you passionately in my arms

you rise with the music of dawn
whilst i sink in the smoky silent haze of dusk

so i sit upon distant shivery shores
whilst moonlight glimmers upon your turquoise sea
your memories seem more melancholic in the rain
everything seems colder in the confusion of absence

wondering if this will be the last time
i answer you calling my name
hear you tell me you hate me -
then remind me you love me
then portray it in poetry

what if this was the last poem
last time we get to say goodbye
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lonelier, angst, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Persian Haiku 3

Persian Haiku 3

Persian Haiku 3


Two wings are enough!
To go further than too far,
What about this cage?


God is everywhere.
There are too many crimes here,
Where the hell are you?


My soul is dusty.
My body is too rusty.
Maybe I'm buried.


You heard me crying.
You wanted to heal my wound.
My heart was bleeding.


I am a bandit.
I wanted to steal your heart.
Somebody stole mine.


What is happening?
Lizards were dinosaurs!
Hope for a flower.


Where are we going?
Destination is unknown.
Let’s make a U-turn.




Who is lonelier?
An eagle or a vulture 
When there is no food.


I don't plant flowers.
Flowers don't have devotion.
They leave soon after.


Let me go away.
Like a mountain, majestic. 
The further we are.


I'm reading Winter.
I’m done with summer and fall.
What happened to spring?


We are both crying,
Sad and gloomy, sky and I.
Our eyes are so wet.


5/4/18 Haloo
Categories: lonelier, allegory, confusion, emotions, imagination,
Form: Haiku

Premium Member I Almost Tossed it Out

       As I am growing older and life becoming lonelier,
       The past beckons, and though I had almost tossed it out,
       The idea of going back to my native land and my people
       Now grows in me as an urgency with no trace of doubt.
       
       I shall go, my soul flying faster than my supple limbs
       To perch on my native land that I left long time ago
       To see the changes, these intervening years have brought
       And to revive the glorious past that in me still aglow

       To listen again to the melodious tunes, half forgotten
       To laugh and talk with my one- time bosom friends
       To enjoy a life lighter and less demanding
       Free of all finesse, rid of all stilted and crazy trends

       I shall visit each of my lovesome former haunts
       The parish church and my parents' forlorn graves
       I shall go to the village school which I loved the best
       That still resurrects in me memories, waves on waves
 
        I shall go wandering through the country roads
        Listen to birds' shrill calls, lovely and clear
        Watch the smile rekindling old familiar faces
        And enjoy the sweet rustic air, dust free and pure

        I want to watch the Gulmohar in opulent bloom
        Feel the scent of jasmines opening at night
        Walk through the paddy fields stretching endless
        Enjoy all the rural scenes that greatly delight

         Climb the small hill where gooseberries grow
         Wind down my way to my friends’ quarters
         And travel farther to the river side with my pals
         To have a dip in the river's cool and clear waters

        Oh, I shall be away from the roaring crowd for ever        
        And relish the peace and quiet, free of all grinding chores
        Cling to life's commonplace things and charms
        Find my own footing there, never to be back to alien shores!
Categories: lonelier, desire, loneliness, missing,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member Footprints In the Mud

Has she been sleep walking all her life?
Or has her frustrated volition taken the upper hand
And determined what she should remember
Or what she should best forget?
     What was their life like, when as children
     They loved to race each other in muddy fields,
     Leaving their footprints in the wet clay?
     There, his strides were deeper than hers 
     For he was stout, and she was thin.
But as time passed the length of each heavy step got shorter,
Their days grew lonelier and lonelier.
Until in the muddy field there was but one set of strides.
            Then the rains came
            And wiped all footprints from the field of mud.

30 April 2021

Placed 2
Categories: lonelier, death, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Californy

Jack was sitting poker faced 
With bullets backed by bitches.
Neal hunched at the wheel 
Puttin everyone in stitches.
He was braggin 'bout 
This nurse he'd screwed, 
While drivin through Nebraska. 
Said that when she came,
She honked the horn, 
And Neal just barely
Missed a truck 
And then he asked her 
If she'd like to cum like that
All the way to CalifornY?
See a redhead in a uniform 
Will always make you horny.
With her hair net and her white
Shoes and a name tag and a hat,
She drove like Andy Granatelli
And knew how to fix a flat!
And Jack was at the bottom 
Of his second 2020.
Neal was yellin out the window
Tryin to buy some beannies
From a Lincoln, full of Mexicans
Whose left rear tire blew 
And the son's of bitches
Prit near ran us off the road!
Well the nurse had 
Spilled the Manischewitz
All up and down her dress, 
Then she lit the map on fire 
And Neal just had to guess. 
Should we try to find 
A bootleg route 
Or a fillin station open? 
The nurse was dumping 
Out her purse looking for a kiss.
Jack was out of cigarettes,
When we crossed the yellow line.
The gas pumps looked 
Like tombstones from then on. 
It felt lonelier than a parking lot 
When the last car pulls away. 
And the moonlight dressed 
The double breasted foot hills 
In the mirror, weaving out
A negligee and black brassiere. 
The mercury was running hot
And we were almost out a gas,
Just then Florence Nightingale 
Dropped her draws and stuck
Her fat ass out the window
To a Wilson Picket tune
And she shouted "get a load of this! " 
And give the finger to the moon.
Counting one eyed jacks
And whistlin Dixie in the car, 
Neal was doin least a hundred
When we saw a shootin star.
Florence wished that Neal 
Would hold her 'stead of chewin his cigar.
Jack was noddin out and dreamin 
That he was in a bar,
With Charlie Parker on the bandstand 
And not a worry in the world, 
And a glass of beer in one hand 
And his arm around a girl. 
And Neal was singin to the nurse
Underneath a Harken moon
And somehow you could tell 
We'd be in CalifornY pretty soon.
Categories: lonelier, america, time, travel,
Form: Free verse

Farewell, Year of Turmoil

How innocent can we begin?
How icy cold can we get?
Thousands of miles away
Yet my story remained static

As I lit a fire up in the night
I set fire to my foes
A true monster hunter
With a heavy load to bear

And as we fell deeper into despair
And grew stronger as a team
I reached out for a sign
That never came to be

I left my teenage years behind me
And emerged lonelier than I'd ever been
The world began to slow
And the end loomed near

The guillotine fell 
And severed all we believed in
I gripped onto the idea of hope
Though the rope sliced into my hand

The world slowed down
As I watched my past repeat
You flew across the country
As disease claimed my friend

The summer sun shone eternal
As we embraced the time we had
Cool waves against warm air
As we burnt ourselves against each other

I took my first steps in a strange land
The nights were lonelier than ever before
The days passed completely alone
And I found solace in an old habit

Summer's last onslaught of heat
Drenched my clothes as I carved my path
A sea of wyverns cast its waves upon my shore
And I let my socks get soaked

I severed my past for a new future
I'd truly thought it was correct
I lost out to lust one last time
Before I let the reaper make his call

As regret washed over my sands
I chose to fight the best I could
But the world of autumn colors before me
Fell victim to complete gray in time

I'm spiraling through turbulent winds
And stealing each moment I can in the candlelight
I'm clamoring to rebuild what I destroyed
In the hopes that an answer will become clear
© Derek Chos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lonelier, introspection,
Form: Free verse


Loneliness

Is that what i feel when i am in company and still feel left out?
Is that when someone i loved walked out of my life?
Is it when my best friend and i fought and our friendship was quits?
i am still alone and searching for an inner meaning to loneliness
and the more i search i realise the lonelier i am
Categories: lonelier, miss you,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Dear Willy

Sunsets aren't quite as bright;
And the flowers are all dying.
Miss you, tall, handsome knight,
As autumn leaves are flying.

Searing summer now a memory-
Soon we'll be together again!
Hope you often think of me.
I know you're not too vain.

Didn't we dance golden days and nights away?
Didn't we kiss under the moon?
But sunny skies have now paled to gray.
Summer left too soon!

Seems I loved you forever.
You are my every pastel sunrise.
Said you'd love me always, whatever.
You are my heart's surprise.

As sweet summer begins to fade,
I must have grown lonelier, it seems,
But for the lovely plans we made,
In the days of dreams.
Categories: lonelier, autumn, dream, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member ''seed of Love''

I sail unaware 
into
 
the ocean currents 
of her life:

and 
smitten, I 
desire to ride 

them with her.

Somewhere 
along
 
the ocean 
ways, a 

seed of love 

plants itself in 
the soil 

of my heart 

and takes root 
and grows—

only to perish 
like 

an embryo of  
hope 

that's aborting itself:

though I love 
her still, 

she cuts
and lacerates my heart 

like a careless 
knife. 

In spite of 
this cruelty and myself, 

I look

for encouragement
in her stare. 

And 

at the outlines 
of her 

magnificent 
form 

I marvel: 

she is 
indeed 

a Helen of Troy, 
a Venus— 
on 

whose 
loveliness I 

so richly gorge! 

But never was 
a lonelier
man 

more wretched 
than I 

am, 

as she cannot
return 

my
affections  

with equal measure 
of feeling

or passion.  

I would be gladder 
had she been unwedded 

to another,

and could more 
easily be 

within my desirous 
and jealous 

orbit! 

In time, I 
never 

see her 
again;

and love, 
or the similitude 
of It—

like 
some aborted 

fetus—

flushes down the  
toilet 

and dies

with her parting 
as well...
Categories: lonelier, angst, beauty, devotion, farewell,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member At This Lonely Hour

I have written you countless poems all on EMBROIDERED napkins,  by cascading
Moonlight at this lonely hour (unmailed).I have sifted through an assortment of mail
Hungrily tearing at envelope after envelope wanting your distant reply.

This is the ninety-ninth LETTER I've written you to be exact. Why haven't you
Written me back. Don't give me EXCUSES, only facts. This obsession has become
A question with no actual answers.  
Tell me, why this festers in me GROWING as a cancer. I see you
Maybe you think this is intriguing, cool or are YOU being PLAYFUL and ALL THE WHILE
Leaving you still so HANDSOME.  Please tell me you're holding your self on
Some EXOTIC  island for RANSOM.

YOU must KNOW by now I AM frantically frustrated. You're able to read it in my face 
In that photograph I sent along with that last LETTER of factual dismay.  I hung
Your coat up YESTERDAY  enveloping MYSELF inside.  
Haven't seen you in 3 YEARS and 5 months now.  It gets lonelier every moment
I think I pass you along the crowded BOULEVARD. I turn and see a stranger...
The MOMENT fades just as silent whispers on SUMMER OCEAN waves.  

Tell me where to search. How many tears SHOULD I shed. How loud should I
Scream. How low must I hang my HEAD. Mournfully I calculate the minutes that
Have passed since the last time I tasted your tender RASPBERRY kisses.  How 
Many more days must I continue COUNTING imaginary BLISSES.  I WONDER
What tales will you unravel once you return home.  This will be my last LETTER for
Fear of the same reprehensible shame.  I have been overexposed to missing you
I should say good bye then.  I have exhausted all of my memories. now my obsessed HEART has become my enemy. This lonely party has dragged on much to long
Somber song, somber song, somber song.  
FOREVER two hearts 
Always two LOVERS entwined
Categories: lonelier, conflict, cry, dark, poems,
Form: Prose

Bored In Manhattan

I probably am the only one in the Big Apple to admit,
" The bigger the city, the lonelier one feels! "
Skyscrapers are modern monuments built against a foggy sky;
many feel lonely and bored in them, and the irony is that to rent
or buy luxurious suites is prohibitive to people who struggle 
to survive, only a Trump or a Gates can afford them! Is their affluenza
effecting you? Be real: you can't have any of them, unless you hold
that lucky Lotto or Mega ticket! My advice is to keep on living
as usual and let dreams of wealth glide you by as puppet balloons 
in a Thanksgiving Parade! Go to Central Park and take a stroll,
or try ice-skating...it's fun! There are a thousands of things
to do in Manhattan! Go to see a Broadway Musical or have dinner
at The Tavern On the Green with friends who are as bored as you!
No! Don't sit on that sofa and watch movies on demand!
Yes, be good to yourself....get out and enjoy life! Laugh! Run! Scream!
Do anything and everything! Have the audacity to challenge and win!  
Let everyone know that are alive regardless of your social status: 
money can offer lots of expensive things most of us
can't even imagine in a million of years! Search for
the simpler things that are more fun and cost almost nothing!


Entered in Julia Ward's contest,
" Bored in Manhattan "
Written on 12/ 28/ 2015
Categories: lonelier, adventure, blue, cheer up,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Bigger the City, the Lonelier One Feels

I probably am the first one to say,
" The bigger the city, the lonelier one feels! "
Skyscrapers are modern monuments
that we build against a foggy sky;
many feel lonely and bored in them,
and the irony is that to rent or buy suites
is prohibitive to people who struggle to survive:
only a Trump or a Gates can afford them!
Is their affluenza driving you mad?
Be real: you can't have any of them,
unless you hold that lucky Lotto or Mega ticket! 
My suggestion is keep on living as usual,
let dreams of wealth glide you by as puppet balloons 
in a Thanksgiving Parade: go to Central Park
and take a stroll or try ice-skating...it's fun!
There are thousands of things to do in Manhattan:
go see a Broadway Musical or spend 
an hour or two in a café or music bar
with friends who seem as bored as you are! No!
don't sit on that sofa and watch movies 
on demand for hours! It's so boring!
Yee, be good to yourself....get out and enjoy life! 
Laugh! Scream! Jump! Run! Smile!
Do anything and everything! Own happiness!
Let everyone know that are alive 
regardless of your social status:
money can offer lots of expensive things
most of us can't even imagine... 
instead search for the simpler things that
are more fun and cost almost nothing!
Categories: lonelier, cheer up, city, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member When Forever Is Severed

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." 
                                                    Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln spoke of the division within a country, but his words also ring true
         when an invisible barrier separates a husband and wife.
                                          


You sit in your arm chair, remote in hand. Remote...that's what you've become.
I have this spacious couch to myself, but I won't ask you to sit with me because
I'm afraid of what your answer might be.

                           TOGETHER
We used to snuggle...We used to take walks...
We used to laugh... We used to go to bed...
I feel lonelier with you then I did before we were married. 
You're here physically, but emotionally, where did you go?



When did we drift away from each other...
Why are we more like sister and brother...
Have you given your heart to another...

You used to leave me sweet little love notes.
I used to make you smile with root beer floats.
We laughed till we cried at our anecdotes.

There's a rift between us - breaking my heart.
A dividing line that I cannot thwart.
We share the same house, yet we are apart.

Love cannot survive in complacency.
It's time I face the harsh reality.
Tell me, honestly, do you still love me?

It would be very hard to say goodbye.
But it's better than living in a lie.
Nothing else could ever cause me to cry.

I have nothing left to say that's clever.
Sad to think we will have no forever.
Nothin' left for a love that's been severed.
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lonelier, feelings, sad love,
Form: Haibun

Broken Promises

Putting on my rings
my hand reached past the one 
I was looking for to the ones 
Pillowed softly in the back

I gently touched them
Then without emotion take them out
And slipped them on my finger

Memories went through my mind
Like a silent movie 

The delight I had when you gave them to me
How hard I tried to think of every reason
to use my hands and show them off

The way I would twist them when I was nervous
The white band they made with a summer tan
And the day I took them off

I promised you forever
but I stole my promise back
somewhere in all those years
of pretending to be happy
My heart rusted from neglect

I determined  that a person that enjoys his own misery
Learns to resent rainbows
Lonelier with you than I ever was alone
I selfishly chose my own happiness
and finally I have given up the guilt of
not being able to 'fix' it

What do you do with old wedding rings
Are they demoted to whatever monetary value
They may have

Are they tucked forever away
with the baby teeth and first shoes

Does the preciousness of the love they once
Symbolized have any value 

Without emotion I pillowed them back into
The softness and closed the box

Possibly you broke some promises too
Categories: lonelier, lost love, love
Form: Free verse

Two Flowers

"Two Flowers" 
by :Sarrah Blaylock
i was walking along a sunny path one bright and summer morn ,when two flowers i did stop to adore 
they were small flowers but healthy none the less ,i came in the morning when they looked their best 
i came back everyday to watch those flowers grow none understood why i would do so, but in my company those flowers grew as if of my presence they rightly knew 
but one dark and gloomy day i came to the grass where i would lay and in the grass on that day i saw one of the flowers had gone away , the once bright and happy flower on the right was now dark and lacking life 
she missed her once best friend she thought he'd be there till the end 
the next day i came back hoping the flowers smile had come back but to my dismay i discovered the flower hadn't wanted to stay
she felt she couldn't go on now both the flowers are forever gone 
gone away leaving me with a good bye i still wanted to say , one stolen by the sharp knife of a short life ,one taken by their own strife and the world's lack of compassion 
now that path is lonelier than any mind can fashion because back ago not very long both of those flowers became forever gone
Categories: lonelier, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
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