Sunday, 15 November 2009

Poems about Loneliness

I'm feeling lonely today. Go ahead, call me an emo child. Boo hoo.

So I thought I'd read some poems on loneliness. I found some I really liked so I decided to put it up here.

Loneliness

by Rainer Maria Rilke

translated by Robert Bly

Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.

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