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Category: .Lonesome
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Category: .Lonesome

. Introspective / . Pensive / .Lonesome / Metrical / Rhyme
The arms of the ocean

The arms of the ocean

When the arms of the cold empty ocean are my only consoling caress, and the wide open sky encircled by …

 #anapestic #Jim Loft #loneliness #loss #silence #touch
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. Mystical / .Lonesome / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
Emily’s Last Words

Emily’s Last Words

“I must go in, for the fog is rising,” breathed out that pen we love so well, as she upon …

 #David L. Hatton #death #Emily Dickinson #fog #metaphor
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. Contemplative / . Mystical / . Philosophical / .Lonesome / .Wistful / Free Verse
True Tide

True Tide

Coast of perfect bays, all night the harbor widens between us; as we sleep the continents change address. I sail …

 #Evan Fowler #loneliness #longing #seeking #separation
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. Pensive / .Lonesome / Free Verse / Nature
The Park

The Park

a massive rock juts up in the park like the claw of a slumbering leviathan  sightless, I sit under it …

 #abandoned park #awareness #decay #George Hloros #perspective
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. Pensive / .Lonesome / Fixed Form / Life / Loss / Love / Metrical / Sentiment
The Old Man in the Mist

The Old Man in the Mist

A lonely path through clouded memories his fading mind once sharp and clear, now lost in hazy fusion, time betrayed …

 #aging #dementia #Helen White
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.Lonesome / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
Dust and Denim

Dust and Denim

He led a life of dust and denim trying to avoid the venom life had spat his way. She clad …

 #disappointment #Kenneth Henry #memories #romance
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