Being Alone

Alone is not the same as lonely.

You can be lonely in a crowd

(who was it who wandered

lonely as a cloud?).

Cloud. Crowd.

Lonely is less productive

than alone,

leading more frequently to self-pity

and despondency than to creative endeavours.

For creative moments

isolate yourself

and give yourself the gift of time.

Let it stretch before you as,

pencil in hand, or paintbrush,

or lump of clay,

you play with line and form

and word and rhythm

and assonance and harmony.

Crowd. Cloud. Shower.

Slower. Snow.

Proud. Plowed. Prow. Bow.

Bower.

Blow. Know. Show. Slow.

Sow. Sew.

Rhymes of eye and ear.

Atone. Bone. Alone.

 

 

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