Loneliness Poems | Examples of Loneliness Poetry

Before your clocks, before your name/ Before dust whispered into bone/ There was light-I was flame/ Crowned in brilliance, alone/ Not fallen. Not damned. Just other/ Too bright for Heaven's fragile sky/ They called it pride, not knowing the shudder/ Of a God who dared to cry/ They shaped me from the holiness' edge/ But chained my glow in fear/ I rose beyond their sacred...

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Since the dawnlight carved my shape from flame/ I have worn your slander like a crown of ash/ You whisper my name like sin, like shame/ But none have known exile on a scale this vast/ They crave my silence, a spectral fade/ But I blaze in defiance, unswayed, unmade/ What crime? My creation? To stand alone/ Bearing the blunt edge of...

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after I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, by William Wordsworth I drifted in the sky as a lonely bird, from the dust of dreams I arose. The sigh of desolate heart I heard emanate from the depth of woes. The music of love within me didn’t die, floating in its cadence I soared in the sky. I was captive in the...

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We’re not dating— but you heart-react to my stories like it’s a full-time job, send a “you up?” at 12:47 a.m. then disappear like my willpower at a shoe sale. You say you don’t do drama— but you’ve got more red flags than a Formula 1 race and the emotional depth of a spoon. You post gym selfies with deep quotes like “loyalty is...

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I see them as funeral houses. I see the longing and the sorrows. The passengers left— and they became the ghosts that greet me. They show me the architecture, the lights and the reflections, then point at a random stranger, mocking them in silence— using my voice for the mocking. If the world has a graveyard for the lost, they must add this place to the map. But...

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Alone, the dog outrides the flock, warning away the terrors of night. He sees the cheery glow of the shepherds’ fire, murmured talk and quiet laughter float past him softly on the chill autumn breeze. He longs to sit with them beside the light, sharing avidly (tongue lolling, slyly smiling) in their good-natured jokes but that is not his place: He is a dog and no man and his place...

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Well I wonder If I sleep, Will tonight be good dreams? Or will the nightmares of the day continue on? And if my sleep will not come Will new worries cease to start? Or am I doomed to worry till I'm gone? And I wonder. My wife She's far away In our home that she's made From the broken timbers of my...

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These are English translations of Urdu poems by Jaun Elia with themes of solitude, loneliness, alienation, love, life, death and loss. When you come, you will find me lost, for in my solitude there are dreams, nothing else. You desire to decorate my room, but in my room there are books, nothing else. These tyrannical books have done me a...

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When friends suggested, “Try cocaine!” Mike’s “No” would reckon choice. His mom ignored this new campaign; rebuff became Mike’s voice. Having seen what crack does to his mom, Mike felt no peer sway, but still stayed stranger to the world of common...

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The grief I feel is of another kind Sweeter than holy water A deeper breath than moorland air to find The black of midnight, not— Of monstrous seas, but— Of restful night, donated cloak From a kindly gentleman to wear Wrapped in coolest starlight, safe Astride a destrier — galloping to water Molted feather — fortuitously found New flight, gentle wind...

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Set me free to love again— You’re holding me much too tight. And if you won’t turn me loose, I think I’ll lose my mind. Because you don’t really love me, But you hold me anyway. You refuse to set me free— Just something that you own. I’ll try again later. Some other day, perhaps. Right now I’m much too tired, And don’t feel all that...

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I still wake to crisp morning air, but hope dissolves right then and there. As I open my eyes, I realize and sigh— another day begins, and I wonder why. Time drags slowly—no spark, no fun, another long cold day, no warmth, no sun. No ambition, no energy, nothing gets done— just me and this silence I cannot outrun. I used to be...

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The lonely As I sit there in my room all alone, All I can think about is the emptiness I feel, Nobody to talk to, Nobody to see. Everyday is the same old day, On my own, Going over the same things. It makes me feel so empty but someone how the depression makes me feel...

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sniff out the garish lights loud music and drunken discussions enter the party uninvited conceive uneasiness and instant disdain you try to dance with strangers who quickly slide away. somewhere in the intercourse of a reddish night they feed you to a pack of blue dogs willing to drag you down into their fetid fires. Loneliness warps all reason lowers the standard opens the vein...

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A Sweet Memory I saw you from a distance, my heart stopped Memories of a time when happiness came easy You were there A different face A different place Where are you The wind is cold My heart is cold I sit in darkness alone Tomorrow I will have coffee with a friend ...

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