Thank You Loneliness Poems

You are the flame that warms my sadness, you are the passion that regenerates my broken soul.
 In your heart lies endless love, a gentle...

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Brush Strokes 

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The canvas of fate,
Wind strokes of the brush create a straight.
The vibrant hues blend seamlessly strait,
Each stroke represents a chapter of my state.

An...

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I’ve brewed so many potions still you are
I’ve made elixirs from hydrogen to quiet you 
Nothing I do is a cure for my lonesome electron
We...

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Yesterday she killed herself by hanging from the ceiling
It carried her weight but she could not
She was everyday troubled by the future worries
All she wanted...

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The gravity of time holds me down;
Like a tree I'm growing up in my place,
Or a bird caged in my own space. 
I keep waiting...

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night fell
and silence hovered
much like my thoughts of you

alone i wondered if you too
held me in your thoughts
when all is calm

grateful as i was
i had...

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I lived lonely, like an orphan,
their single, only child.
Envied others with siblings, often.
They must make life worthwhile!

I found my greatest joy in dreams
of what I...

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THANK YOU
for
my
LONELINESS
that
SETS me out to many lanes
and
PRODS my mind to search on
that
EXTENDS my being to others
and
EXPANDS my heart to believe.

THANK YOU
for
this LONELINESS
that
WOUNDS my heart again...

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Ticks and Chimes

The pictures on the walls, 
and in my books...
are all that I have, 
from yesterday, 
to remember you by, 
and all those that...

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The loneliest prayer is often said
When evening shadows fall
Or when I sob and jump in bed
My shirt, my shoes, and all

I wonder why my closest...

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Clarence Goddard, Harvey Bell, Virgil Barnes and I met for coffee every day for close to forty years.
I was a school janitor...Virgil was a farmer...Harvey...

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The recent lockdown certainly made family the center of everything - from fun to daily irritations. But after a month of being at college -...

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A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery...

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How silly of me
  I thought I was alone

Thank you for watching over me
  When Hope was already gone...

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When I see a woman on the street
Pale, sad and looking at me
With a ghost of a prayer in dull eyes
That have lost their shine
I...

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