Best Lonesomeness Poems
--Tree Silhouette--
shimmering tree
they're no footsteps around
but fallen leaves
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afternoon twilight
heaven is listening
peaceful lonesomeness
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Autumn waits
The wind blows the mind
leaves falling softly
By:PD
Categories:
lonesomeness, autumn, beauty, blessing, deep,
Form:
Haiku
Rife are grievous echoes lamenting worldwide
From widespread disgust clamoring weary sigh,
Perturbed in lonesomeness, bawling in dark,
Clasped beneath shroud of tenebrous clouds,
Rendering world aghast in grip of distraught.
Battlefield is raging, tearing apart humanity,
Women and children are dying of atrocities
From bombs and missiles fired indiscriminately
Destroying buildings, annihilating normalcy,
As lives scatter, fleeing death and uncertainty.
Fueled by anger, pent-up distress is brewing,
Helplessness is stirring, caught in pandemic,
Lives once dynamic are static, unengaging;
Minds are bewildered, hearts are agitating,
Feelings, once solemn, have now turned eerie.
Oceans are heating, hurricanes are churning,
The Alps are melting, yet the rivers are drying,
Cities are flooding, neighborhoods are drowning,
In uncontrolled infernos forests are burning,
Unfathomable climate is plaguing farm yields.
Gales stirring extremes roil storms of suffering,
Lava churning desperation is boiling, bubbling,
Ready to erupt violently spewing angst volcanic,
Challenging fate openly, tired of venting silently,
Foretelling of warning: a blow-up is simmering.
November 4, 2022
Placed 1st: This or That, Vol 14 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Tile chosen: Tinderbox
Categories:
lonesomeness, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form:
Verse
When ghosts of seclusion haunt,
And murky clouds of gloom veil the mind,
When tears on rosy cheeks freely flaunt,
Heart misses a beat and lags behind,
Must you intervene and rescue the kind,
Certainly prejudiced is the sublime,
Unable to introspect as love is blind,
Drowning in deep ocean of worldly mime !
Written on 3/8/14
Contest- Vibrant verse 2
Sponsor- Charlotte Puddifoot
Awarded 7th place
Now for contest- Solitude
Sponsor- Scott thirty seven
Now for contest- One sad poem by PD A
Now for contest 'Any poem- 12 lines max' by Rick Parise
Categories:
lonesomeness, depression, loneliness, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
Around the corner
Past year memories,
Haunting solicitude,
Teary eyes,
Sinking heart,
Spooky gloom is,
around the corner !
Noise of a little drop,
A ray of sunshine,
Heart ceases to beat,
palpitations thereafter,
Pounces out of breastbone,
Scare is around the corner!
I can hear his footsteps,
As eyes glance at door,
Fragrance is in the air,
Moments of long wait,
Wake up of the dream,
Lonesomeness around
Every other corner !
Written October 17th, 2014
For contest 'Around the corner' by Francine Roberts
Categories:
lonesomeness, emotions, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Swallow me,
Like the air you inhale,
And exhale the broken pieces of my soul
To cherish me in you,
Forever…
Swim in my eyes,
And drown yourself into my sorrow,
Sacrifice your life to sympathize,
Try to live my life of disguise,
Bleed like me,
Live in the reflection of my wounds,
Allay my pain
And cry my only remedy…
Sympathy,
Liberate me from myself,
To conceal my lonesomeness,
Free me…
Into you, and be my sympathy,
Let your words sedate me,
Bring the feelings we shared into reality,
Feel me, feel with me…
Don’t be my misery,
If only I can hurl the words
That bled in me,
To feel…just to feel
Some sympathy…
From you,
My destiny…
Categories:
lonesomeness, life, mystery, sad, life,
Form:
Free verse
Friday night the weekend begins for most
Mothers, Fathers, with family members host
To be together with those they LOVE most
While a lonely man speaks with his Wife's ghost
On my computer the POETRY site
Saturday mornings some comments I write
My former students all work through the night
An old man see's his Wife's Heavenly Light
After Church, there is my A A meeting
Forlorn lonesomeness,now takes a beating
I get home; Featured POETS; I'm greeting
Images of my lovely Wife : Fleeting
Monday, a new week, new POEMS I shall start
I pick up my quill and write from my Heart
Author's note: Dear Andrea, all lines have 10 syllables(Thanks for the Spelling)
I still have to work on the format - aabb- This looks like aaaa but it's not ; a - just happens to rhyme with - b -
Categories:
lonesomeness, family, lonely, wife, work,
Form:
Sonnet
Poetry and wine.
Substitute companionship.
Lonesomeness with you.
Categories:
lonesomeness, relationship,
Form:
Haiku
Gypsy soul born a wandering way
Bearer of passion age old and new
Who can tame your unbridled day
And live as Romani's do
Calloused hands speak not complaint
Who's bearings steer by twilights cue
A leisured life such charm forsake
To walk as Romani's do
To bitter end thine heart defend
For right to prove love true
Un-soulful touch could not pretend
To love as Romani's do
To give not weight to emotions sway
Is a labyrinth worth stumbling through
So lonesomeness owns not the day
To cry as Romani's do
A gypsies search to revel in spoils
In solitudes song or convivial crew
Between extremes it's harmony joins
To sing as Romani's do
Coursed by vein to entertain
An artists heart steeped and brewed
Banjara kuchi meets tambourine
To dance as Romani's do
Mysterious eyes tint hardened lives
Breeding bonds so deep and few
To be a part of this honored tribe
And die as Romani's do
The gypsies way one does not choose
It's spirit inborn and it grew
From India's caves to the vagabond strays
A Romani remains forever on the move
Categories:
lonesomeness, art, culture, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
Our appetite wanted more
Bun and cheese, or potted meat sandwich
They were handed out all in a row
From his small room
Its front door slightly ajar
One unbelievable
Kind hand, fed more than four
Reginald led the way and spoke
"Mr. Drummings, yu hav anyting?"
It was rare not hearing locks unlocked
The ringleader was mostly welcome in
Four siblings, four sandwiches, one hand waving us on
He would feed himself in silence
Inside, where
Some unspeakable spirit lurked
Hunger was no joke to Reg. and us
His role of self-reliance
Modeled after same sex
Granny, and Papa, and Mama had no clue
One afternoon, it was just Reg. and I
In the twinkle of an eye, this opening
My stomach gnawed and caved
A chubby hand shooed me on with a wave
I walked toward St. John (our Primary school)
Felt a sudden sickening lonesomeness
Later, much later
The old man lived
In backyard he dwell
Beside body builder's home
His small wooden abode, seemed enough
It sat humbled, beside Reggie's concrete home
Was the old man eased, from his burden?
*
Categories:
lonesomeness, brother, food, giving, introspection,
Form:
Bio
Mother
Oh Mother, why have you left me on the shores of lonesomeness?
Without you, I amount to nothing.
I miss you, and I miss your bosom’s tenderness.
You protected, you fed, and you were my closest peer.
When I became ill, you healed.
When I crumbled in hopelessness, you stood behind as firm backbone,
For strong you are and steady; I lingered within your fortress, behind your shield.
Forever protective; as a watchful knight that has been sworn.
Seldom, I am strong, without your wholesome feminism.
Oh Mother, I dearly miss your divine presence.
Love you; I do, with undoubted truism.
My heart, you comfort; forever, I feel your essence.
You complete me in every way.
Regardless of age, in your warmth I stay.
Categories:
lonesomeness, family, mother,
Form:
Sonnet
Xenon cry, reverberator night
It's either wounded near death
Or calling out, the blurred lines
Between hurt and lonesomeness
Why it felt so cold
Like the world face, turning to its fate?
Where the ominous black pulls back its shaw
Showing us where we will all end up
Like the xenon crying out in a reverberating night
Categories:
lonesomeness, life,
Form:
Free verse
solitude reading night
lonesomeness appraising stars
partition of worship
Categories:
lonesomeness, love,
Form:
Haiku
He's beside me when I'm lonely.
He hears me when I cry.
This lonesomeness inside me; often times, it's hard to hide.
Hush now don't you worry.
Please wipe those tears away.
Tis I who stands beside you, each night and everyday.
Know I have always been there.
Not once were you alone.
Twas I whose walked beside you, wherever you may roam.
Tis I whose voice your hearing.
The one who guides those home, whenever they are lost.
Please hush now don't you worry.
Please wipe those tears away.
His voice I trust and listen, for it never fades away.
Those words they bring me comfort, each night and everyday.
Please now, won't you listen?
For these words he's had me write:
He is there when you are lonely.
He has always heard your cries.
The lonesomeness inside you; yes he knows, it's hard to hide.
Please now, won't you listen?
Put aside your foolish pride.
Open up your heart to hear him and all he has to say.
Don't you know he stands beside us, each night and everyday.
It is him whose always been there.
Not once were you alone.
Twas him whose walked beside you, wherever you had roamed.
Tis his voice you have been hearing.
The one who guides us home, whenever we are lost.
Know he will always hear you, even when you think he won't.
Hush now don't you worry.
Please wipe your tears away.
His voice; if one trusts and listens, will never fade away.
Let his words now bring you comfort, each night and everyday.
Categories:
lonesomeness, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Limerick
As rains and the torrentialest of snows plummet,
Filling all the skies and the area interstitial to earth and sky
With a frenzy of flying flakes;
As gusty winds doth blow and toss the flakes this way and that;
As torrents true amid the most rending species of gale
Dash themselves bitterly and self-destructively
Against this crude roof,
It is of my hodiernal solitariness,
My aloneness and lonesomeness,
My singleness, and plural,
Romantic stationariness that I must needs
And peradventure speak:
Yet, firstly, permit us all to sit still and our selves
Stationary, silent and still; and silence that intruding music
So ominous yet banal, tinny and slight:
Lighthearted 'tis it, as well:
That which plainly portends our overwhelming destruction,
And that of all our cogitation, cognition, concentration
And composition, with its overmuch resonant yet tinniest
Intrusiveness.
So allow to be it thus and summarily silenced-
Now, that's better.
A man can listen to himself think again;
He can form cognitive thought and appreciation thereof.
Therefor, that music silenced and my concentrative powers
Revived: As a blade at the whetstone, resharpened:
I can keep on with the prosody and poesy of my plight,
But...
Categories:
lonesomeness, absence, age, america, analogy,
Form:
In your fears
I am insecure
In your hesitancy
I am left waiting
In your flight
I am alone
In your self doubt
I am inadequate
and in the shadows of your eyes
I find the trails of my mistakes
the recrimination for my selfishness
the evidence of my self-centered mess
In the palpable silence between us
is the weight of all our fears and pain
the distance that keeps us numb
armors our hearts from further pain
Staring across the table in contented silence,
Knowing though our aches are isolated and unvoiced,
the other knows all our voids, the shadows, and broken shards.
Our mutual lonesomeness is the glue of our Love, the binding of broken into One.
Categories:
lonesomeness, husband, loneliness, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse