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· ECHOSIS

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· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

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· Truth is One


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· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

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· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

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Five-Star Lonely

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

In 2021, there’s a continuing loneliness that pervades this country. Some might feel it with relationships. Other’s may realize it with themselves. Arguably, not being able to find peace with oneself very possibly will lead to not finding it with others. Making yourself you own worst enemy is a difficult starting line. (A reboot of a poem many years old, yet kept anew by the country’s inability to rectify conditions for the past.)

Saturday, October 9, 2021


Poem Artwork

 

Five-Star Lonely

 

His box-of-a-room,
furnished with imagination.

His one window,
a brick wall view.

His sink,
a crusty faucet for company.

His cupboard-laden-dust,
a spider lair’s entertainment.

His writing table,
endless pages support.

His stubby pencil’s shavings,
time’s puzzle of memories.

His coffee mug,
every morning’s greeting.

His one chair,
all that’s needed.

His faithful bed,
for wide-awake dreams.

His ceiling,
insomniac movies every night.

His personified kingdom,
survival’s safety net.

Some call this life madness.
Lonely knows it’s Five-Star paradise.

 

 



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Reviewed on October 11, 2021
You've done it again, Odin! There's a a LOT of truth to this! This has been one hell of a year, that's for sure. Let people learn from it. They will learn if they have half a mind. Write on!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on October 10, 2021
Only for the Lonely, beautifully described. Evocative.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 10, 2021
That time you spent in Manhattan, writing in a lonely room like you describe, resonates throughout your poetic work.

Got me thinking about those celebrities with all the perks of fame. Staying in five star hotels wherever they go, but isolated from family and friends and purposely isolated from fans and paparazzi. Living a lonely existence that often leads to drugs and death. The other side of the coin.

Ron

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on October 10, 2021
Your description sounds almost like my house. ==smiles==
Actually, I have a few more trinkets. And I'm kinda comfortable.
I'm proud of my solar-cells powered by the sun. They only illuminate two lights, but I'm on my way.


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