Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts

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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