General Poetry posted September 16, 2018


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Pining for a lost love

Still Here

by HarryT

You thrust on me a shrouding cloak
Squeezing me each day and every night
Never, never can I shrug it off
Not in the blacking night or the sunny light
Not in a noisy bar or at a steaming beach
Always, always a haunting, wanting and re-beating
Why did you go?
What did I do?
Where are you now?
I am still alone all these empty years
Waiting, hoping, wishing…

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Lonely Poem writing prompt entry
Writing Prompt
Write a free verse poem to express the state of loneliness in not more than 15 lines.
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