Tag: loneliness

  • Disconsolate by George Freek

    Disconsolate by George Freek

    I’m tired of lookingat dead trees,weary of the moon,which looks as if it hada dreadful disease.My friends have departed.My wife is dead.I watch the sun seton our home.I stare down a road,which leads nowhere.And I can only returnto my unmade bed. George Freek’s poem “Enigmatic Variations” is currently nominated for…

  • Orion by Lori M. Myers

    Orion by Lori M. Myers

    The room smelled of Lysol and potato chips as Sara stood there wondering why a married woman such as herself had come to a mixer where the male pickings tried to act like they were 45 but, in truth, didn’t look a day under 80. She tried to rationalize all…

  • The Dark Side by Tom Corboy

    The Dark Side by Tom Corboy

    Is darkness onlyAbsence of lightOr individual personaA personal night. Does it gather at duskAnd retreat at dawnOr is it a twenty-four hourCloud that is drawnA personal darknessPersonal absence of light? No amount of sunCan ease the frightOf not knowingIf anyone’s home. Do you see meAre you entirely alone? Tom Corboy…

  • Night by Yuu Ikeda

    Night by Yuu Ikeda

    Night leaves tearson my notebookevery time dawn comes back The ink emits a light like a firefly,and sinks to the seamless horizon Even if you vanishfrom my view,my notebook reminds meof your sorrow Even if I’m swallowedby cruel sunrise,my notebook makes me feelyour warmth Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based…

  • Black Sheep by Surakshya Kiju

    Black Sheep by Surakshya Kiju

    Surakshya Kiju, a.k.a. Coco, is passionate about writing. She is a blogger at Poems From Heart, where she pours her heart out, laying bare her emotions as she portrays the world through her eyes. Her poemsβ€”which range from rhymes to sonnetsβ€”have been published in literary magazines.