Free Bing Photos: 100 images of solitude
The piece below was written by my Insight Timer friend, Roy Mason in New York. I had been working on a poem related to loneliness that just wasn’t coming together. I sent it to Roy and he flipped it, most lovelingly, on its head and produced this beautiful layered haiku. Far better than my original piece. It is an honor to post it here.
Lonely Haiku
Magazines read twice,
Fridge food contains emptiness;
My heart: comfortless.
Mind wheels are spinning,
Sleep is sought but elusive.
The hours go on…
I ask: who am I?
The deafening loneliness!
Waiting for the light.
Outcast and apart,
I hear the chimes of the clock;
Then tick tock, tick tock.
I, disconsolate,
Endless pacing with worry.
Five O’clock: birds sing.
Meditation Travelogue 
It’s a lovely piece of work.
Thank you and nice of you to stop by. I will pass that along to my friend, Roy. He’ll be grateful.
Wonderfully thoughtful and discriptive, paints a picture.
A picture many of us have known at one time or another. Thanks for coming by. Given your mad dash to hit the holiday trail, I’m deeply grateful for you taking the time to stop in. Safe travels my beautiful friend.
At all ages these moments hit unwelcomed, but stubbornly there.
So true, Liz, though I would say I am a good bit better and working through it now than in my younger years. That is a wonderful blessing, don’t you think?
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Thank Roy. He did a nice job.
I hope you are well, Noelle.
I’m doing most well, my dear friend. Busy, of course, but good. Working on two pieces for the book at are coming together and nearly finished with the project. Should be able to get the book out to publishers by mid July before leaving for vacation. How are you, my friend. What is new in your lovely life?