Tag: isolation
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December 01, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
You captured the moon in your arms
and I fell by the wayside.
No light is there for me.
Here in this place of darkness
I dwell among shadows,
frightened of the light
and what it will reveal. . . .
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December 17, 2008 09:54 PM EST --
You hardy northern folks would laugh at the conditions that have snowed me in, but it's a big deal for us desert rats. I live at 4100 feet. 70 miles east of San Diego and about 30 miles above the . . .
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December 10, 2007 01:32 AM EST --
Alone is a state of mind. Many people can be physically alone but do not feel alone as they know someone, somewhere is loving them, thinking about them and missing them. The moments progress . . .
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November 14, 2006 08:04 PM EST --
Walls, they
divide
but we can always climb
them to get to the other side.
Walls, they
shelter us,
but stay too long
and they imprison . . .
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February 24, 2009 06:38 PM EST --
CHICAGO (UPI) -- Social isolation affects how people behave, as well as how their brains operate, a University of Chicago study found.
John Cacioppo said the study used functional Magnetic Resonance . . .
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August 08, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
Dancing to a ghostly echo
Eloping with a memory
Sharing secrets with shadows
Outstanding debts of spirit
Languid, emotional IOUs
Antiques whisper scents of yesteryear
Today’s embers . . .
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March 02, 2008 09:05 AM EST --
What's Next with Globalization?
I just read a good article by Karl Leuba about China, and I could just settle for making a comment. But it brings up subjects I have long been thinking about, Global . . .
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November 17, 2009 06:18 PM EST --
Sanity was slowly stripped away, so slowly it was hardly noticeable.
You found the weakest point and began there. Words slipped into my consciousness, seeding doubt about what I thought I knew. . . .
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March 16, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
The truth about doors
Their most fundemental flaw
Is, when closed,
They become walls...............
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March 29, 2007 04:53 AM EDT --
This fire still burns bright
The only illumination in my night
Bright enough to show how empty this darkness is
In the flames you dance
In my embers you exist
Fuelled by tears, your incandescence . . .
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October 28, 2006 06:20 AM EDT --
Three stories below, men holler, women shriek, couples walk by laughing, defying the night. Three stories above, she waits for a sign; a pebble striking the window, a knock at the door. . . .
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October 18, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Something within my gut recoils as I hear the flippant response . . . again. My words, thoughts, ideas are dismissed as a husband no longer consultsthe once esteemed mental checklist of "verbal offenses." . . .
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August 09, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
For Chana...
My response to the challenge Chana gives to respond to Her Impossible Mission and Simon & Garfunkel's I am a Rock (posted far below with . . .
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September 03, 2006 02:25 AM EDT --
For two days we lived isolated on the mountain, with only a few daring to venture up the Yellow Grade Road while we were there. We soaked up as much lonliness, and old time atmosphere as we could, but . . .
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October 11, 2006 08:53 AM EDT --
Some days the path is so clear,
and the sun beckons to me;
Other days it seems littered with debris,
and my eyes cannot seem to focus
on where I'm going;
I feel I must constantly stop
and pick . . .
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June 02, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
With the recent news of an air traveler infected with Tuberculosis being isolated, TB is much in the news. I thought some of you may want a little background on the disease.
TB has been around for a millennia . . .
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December 20, 2008 10:17 AM EST --
She had icicles in her hair,
frostbitten lashes
that could snap like twigs.
No firestorm
was enough to melt
the layers.
Cold to the touch,
difficult to look upon
(such a harsh glare!)
. . .
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May 15, 2006 04:01 AM EDT --
Nocturne
Red wine
white russians
the blues
a dark bar cafe
in the rain; in the snow;
in the freakin' blizzard!
You w/o me; me w/o you
writing in our journals
separately
"let you see mine, . . .
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June 07, 2006 06:21 AM EDT --
Maybe I want to cry
Maybe I want to fix myself a meal
Maybe I want to write you a note
Or sleep for awhile
Maybe I want to cry
Maybe I will by and by
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September 28, 2006 11:35 PM EDT --
This is as far as we may come toward Valinor
Just to these mists, but not beyond
From here, although they have forgotten us.
We will hear, if only faintly, when they dance.
And smell . . .
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