Alone With Aloneness by James BlaylockAlone With Aloneness
forgive me, please,
as I know - aloneness
it's not for everyone
but I know it, so well...
it's that feeling of entering
into a room with no windows,
although, somehow you're happy
that there's at least a lightswitch
and this means that the darkness
is rightfully forced away, wherever
3-26-11
james kenneth blaylock
03/26/2011
Posted on 03/27/2011 Copyright © 2025 James Blaylock
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Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 04/05/11 at 12:18 AM Poignantly written, you know how to say it like it is and still have it pull in the reader's emotion. |
Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 07/03/11 at 02:19 PM I agree with Elizabeth above, and in addition I love how this poem lays it all out like a carpet on which to fly toward resolving a loneliness and a melancholy to which all poets are prone. |
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