Still Blinking IIIFirst, remove the eyelids—
they hold too much fiberglass.
Grind streetlight into gunpowder,
cut it with gravel—snort the cocaine dusk.
Take the sidewalk like heretic communion,
metal-flake wine, asphalt host.
She blinks razors.
Stars break in her clavicle.
You don’t touch her—you calibrate.
Banana fingers, bruised and humming,
plucking vapor off the fencepost.
Storm-laced teeth.
Voice as hinge,
breath as cordless vacuum
throat tightrope over a cheap
motel dirty...
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Categories:
solitude, angst, romantic love, satire,
Form: Lyric
Echoes Within!"Silence is the virtue of wise,
The words within you won't let you rise
Emotions are worthless to analyze
Pour it all down there, so as to paralyze"
Said they, in order to tantalize
But the voice within me, keeps mocking & knocking,
Interrogating me within the bars of strokes, continuously clocking
Commanding me to ruminate all around, all the...
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Categories:
solitude, absence, pain, philosophy, silence,
Form: Free verse
Looking never foundLooking Never Found.
When did the searching start ?
Perhaps at the very first beat,
of an innocent, uncorrupted, heart.
Perhaps a dark nights lullaby rhyme?
When the seekers eyes, were unblinded,
or in that soothing voice counting time.
Maybe in that sunlights far flung view?
Looking for vague external questions,
to quench a thirst, raw and bitter to you.
Maybe waves of...
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Categories:
solitude,
Form: Free verse
The Suffering AlienThe suffering alien
He just lives in the world. Integrated life, but alien
He feels, experiences, and interprets existence
He discovers human life. In a human body
The alien
To live in this age is a fantastic privilege. Says alien
Rapid development, complex social environment
Look around. Continuous change, genesis
Said the alien
There are so many connections, causes, and effects
Nuanced meanings and invisible...
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Categories:
solitude, fantasy, fate, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Deprived of your loveLike a raging river barreling toward an arid basin,
sediment collects inside a hardening heart.
Weighing heavy, eyelids flutter over drowning maculas;
all that can be seen are murky riptides.
Vision cuts out.
Frantically flaring arms desperately try to skim the surface,
dragged deeper into an unknown chasm. ...
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Categories:
angst, dark, poetry, solitude,
Form: Free verse
SOLITUDE poetrix
I feel in the deserved rest
containment of ideas and words
not erasure of the senses...
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Categories:
solitude, allusion, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Heavy tale
Present me with different patterns,
A person without anxiety within.
What I mean is, make me feel you,
Within the same body,
Unable to extract duality,
Be my twin baby.
From the inner sense of the events,
Look through a telescope from a distant land.
Let simplicity be in your latitude,
Let there...
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Categories:
solitude, anxiety, confusion, imagery, lonely,
Form: Free verse
A Japanese Tanka Written in Response to Pensive Solitude on The Eve of This NightAn outcast this night,
I mournfully sigh with gloom:
but, I make war, fight!
to rebel against the doom,
and emptiness of my room.
...
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Categories:
solitude, depression, loneliness, lonely, longing,
Form: Tanka
Hidden StarsI did not ask
for the world to stop —
just for the echo to answer.
but silence
grew its own wings.
so i followed
the quiet,
to the river,
to wild grass,
to birds that sing
before dawn.
there,
i learned something
soft and strong:
that I can keep walking
even if the stars stay hidden
Now—
I walk not to be followed,
but to feel the ground
under my feet.
To breathe
and know:
i...
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Categories:
solitude, hope, loneliness, lost, nature,
Form: Free verse
Solitude“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,” - Lord Byron
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Categories:
feelings, life, pain, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Slow Down-Slow down-
Even the sounds of
rushing red waters
pulsing...
drown out the beats
that blare in my head
- Slow Down -
My thoughts spin like a carousel of fervent beats,
while I watch the harbors of still waters,
a gentle surrender to time, drift away.
Every stride toward solace
meets the rush of a furious current
that demands to be heard.
BREATHE
They say.
But...
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Categories:
solitude, angst, anxiety, fear, mental
Form: Lyric
Nostalgic FeelingPutting in writing
Listening to others
Listening to myself
Leaning on my feet
A chair, rose in a vase
A bird singing outside the window
It hurts so much that
I want to pass out for a few days
It's shameful. It's scary. It's furious....
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Categories:
introspection, nostalgia, solitude,
Form: Light Verse
Too Loud to Stay LovedMy tongue, a beast that bites me first.
I wanna shut it down,
never to speak again.
My voice, a wild river,
Yet keeps flooding, careless of consequence.
My lips, in a race,
while everyone hopes—
“Would they ever learn silence?”
My brain, too messy,
Spills out without a thought.
All cures, I’ve tried—
Nothing worked.
The words kept flying—
Some hurt. Some haunt. Some hang in the...
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Categories:
2nd grade, conflict, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Death Comes Home
Leaden clouds sweep swiftly in from the north,
Blanketing the sapphire skies in melancholy.
Deafening, rolling thunder cracks
As a mysterious chill sends a shudder up my spine.
A faint knock rasps at my front door;
Whispers circulate, ringing through my walls,
Echoing my name ever so sinisterly....
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Categories:
solitude, dark, gothic, imagery, mirror,
Form: Free verse
If I must be aloneFrom early days, my path diverged alone,
Not as the others danced beneath the sun.
Their laughter echoed; mine a silent tone,
A melody of one, by none begun.
The brook’s soft murmur spoke in tongues to me,
While others heard but water’s gentle flow.
In rustling leaves, a cryptic symphony,
A world within, where only I could go.
The tempest’s roar, to...
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Categories:
solitude, 8th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Solitude Poems
Definition | What is Solitude in Poetry?
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