if my aloneness wrote, too

This virus has affected all of us one way or another with its gloom and loneliness  cutting us off from the outside world for it has gotten to  be awaking for the masses as it is necessary to adjust and adapt to this passage  of time as it becomes the normal thing in our lives sometimes we have to change how we see the difference in the world 🙏👊🤔 we gonna get through it 🤗😉🦋

Hi there, dear Shaman :)
I completely agree with your thoughts and sage summary of the battle we faced and continue to, with covid. We've all had to make adjustments and changes getting used to our new reality of 'normal' and I suppose there are many many people who will be dealing with the lingering effects that being alone for extended periods of time, can leave behind. It's a process, for sure.

Thank so much for sharing your thoughts with me and leaving some uplifting kind words.... it means so much to me, my dear poet 🙏🏻

I'll do my best to pay that forward -
Much love and respect,
🌹 - 💙 - 🌷
xo
B

I appreciate that for knowledge is power as it lifts up the entire spectrum of the mind 🙏👊💪

hello beautiful Blue I feel the barrenness and desolation in this poem
it is a thing of beauty because your pain while in isolation
has given birth to a write a lot of people can relate to and identify with
I feel for your alone state during this very frightening time hugs beautiful one
this is living art it attests to how the people dying must have felt being alone
and that was the worst thought for me imagining them without their loved ones...

sorry that is a stark thought but I always say what a poem makes me think of
and covid is terrifying...

great write it is beautiful because it is true ❤️

Good evening, lovely lady!  
Thank you so much for your visit and for empathizing with my situation during social distancing. Hopefully we're all on our way to much happier and healthier days ahead. It's comforting to know that my words were relatable and you felt like a connection was relayed there. Shared pain and loneliness is palpable and uniting, when we're open to communicating that experience.  

I'm deeply appreciative for such wonderfully thoughtful comments and I'm grateful that you shared your thoughts with me, dear poetess

Much love your way ✨ 💫 ✨
🌹 - 💙
B

I was lucky enough to beat the Virus and was pleased my poetry made a book raising money for our nurses
The isolation and loneliness of lockdown gave me time to reflect
Great piece my gorgeous lady
Love and light
Ron xx

I remember those scary moments with you battling covid, well. I kept serious vigil for you, that's for sure. Your strength and courage are truly inspiring. I'm so impressed and totally excited to hear about your poetry inclusion. I didn't know that!! What a beautiful idea that was to show appreciation and raise funds for a good cause, well done you!!  

Isolating absolutely was time to reflect, ultimately really coming to an understand of how truly grateful I am... That's definitely true for me as well! Thank you for the generous contribution to me and my page with your RL add and such lovely kind words.  

Much love and appreciation, dear Ron  
🌹 - 💙  
B

Hi Blue
This virus and isolation has been the death of so many, some who never had the virus, yet it ended their lives.

A neighbour of mine not a whole lot older committed suicide all because of it.

Isolation can be so traumatic for some. Your poem speaks of the truth of this whole pandemic.
Beautiful and sad

Love n peace my friend
💙💙💜💜🙏🙏🙏

Hey, WM :)
I'm so sorry for the loss of your neighbor, that's truly awful. My heart goes out to you as well as those that knew him.  

Isolating was definitely difficult, not that I'd change a moment, knowing that I 100% helped protect the lives of the most vulnerable among us. My own family included.  

To slowly become a normal functioning human being, has taken me longer to adjust then I thought it would. I still don't do large crowds and still wear a mask in doors, while out in public. So it's definitely something that will come, just later rather than sooner... haha...

Sad topic, it's true, I agree but I am glad I'm not alone in expressing that sad darkness.... it's comforting to be reminded others felt similarly.  

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, it really is extremely meaningful to me. Be well and be safe out there... ✨ 💫 ✨  

Much obliged, dear poet 🙏🏻
🌹 - 💙
xo

Hi Blue,how are you?
This is moving. Your infinite energy from your eternal source,pulls me in.

X

Hey, you!
I'm ok... hope you are as well ;)

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek... my heart flutters a bit at your extremely kind remarks and I am beyond delighted that you were stirred enough to leave me this your thoughts and feelings .... ✨

It sincerely means a lot to me.

All my best wishes and hope-filled vibes sent your way 🍃
🌹-💙
B

What is within us only have as much life and energy that we give., but regardless of the situation it makes us think.

Being so intensely self aware in an isolated situation definitely had it's struggles and some days, it's positives, too. My entire outlook of many issues changed because of that experience, as did my energy levels. I'm still working, trying to recover fully.... lol.

Thanks for the comments, CS. I appreciate you taking the time to leave your thoughts with me.
🌹 - 💙

It's harsh being left to your own devices for so long, even with all the benefits of technology at my beck and call.

It's truly writing that got me through, as well as volunteering a few days a month at my favorite animal shelter.... or whenever I could make it out there...

It's the little things that made the difference...
Thanks for relating to my words and for understanding the pitfalls /difficulties.

I appreciate you taking the time, Tim
🌹 - 💙
B

People reacted to the pandemic in different ways.  I wish me and you were together so we could have some crazy fun, LOL.  Keep on writing you strong beautiful smart sexy woman.  👙

Thanks for stopping Francisco!.... I appreciate the comments.
🌹

And I appreciate you my strong beautiful smart sexy woman.

🌹-☺

😉😉🤩🤩

Dear BV,

I think this poem is another gem. A reflective and thoughtful response to this situation, I wish I had.

Do you want to know what my aloneness would say?


Really?



You sure??




You’re  positive you want to know?



I hope you can handle it.





🖕🏻


Great write! H🌷

bahahahaha...
i just knew that's what it'd say too!!!

Damn, how I do love your true North, my lovely friend!!! xoxoxoxo

In all fairness my aloneness pretty much cursed like a f$#cking sailor 🤬 , but I think I caught this ONE night where it maybe lost a bet with my libido...which meant the loser had to attemp 'emoting' .... hahaha 😂


Outstanding comments, H
A much needed belly laugh

(I hope you are doing well, I've missed you)
🌹 - 💙
xo
B

Outstanding.  The title is absolutely epic!!!  Holy shit epic.
God, I wanna write a poem using that title too!  I love it.

And then the depth of the write.  Achingly felt for you.  
I woulda gave you a hug anytime!  Damn the quarantine!  
Your poem pours the solitude out onto the page in pinches to the skin, just to feel something physical.  I get it.

Wonderful write, Blue.   I love it.

You're welcome to use the title... lol...maybe just change it up a bit... "If my loneliness wrote, too?"
haha.... Put it in Spanish?
"Si mi soledad también escribiera"
😂 😂 😂 😂

Just a few ideas...*wink!

Seriously, S
Thank you so much for making me smile tonight. It's been a long day today and I needed the lovely boost... that's 👍🏻

To relate with your fellow humans in times of darkness, is where real humanity shines the brightest.... (or so I like to think)

(btw, I would have gladly accepted those hugs!!)

I deeply adore your visits...
🌹 - 💙
x
B

Here ya go:

((((((Susan)))))))

That's a coupon for a free hug.  Cash in anytime.

One thing about me, is that I'm selfish when it comes to things that I like.  I'm tenacious when it comes to the welfare of my friends etc.  Because I want them in my life, happy and healthy.  Because that benefits me too!   I'm a born fixer.  I want things right. Including minds.  
When I adopt writer-friends (whatever is the proper term) into my life, now they matter.
I have three decade-plus friends from ancient online days that are still my friends.  Two I've never met.  But, we know one another by now.  
Sometimes as writers, the majority of our lives is lived in "self imposed quarantine".   It's our safe zone.  But nothing substitutes physical contact. That hug, that hand in each others. It is the reinforcement that keeps us bonded as physical creatures, and not just energized auras of mental spheres.  
I have a hard time with accepting physical contact sometimes.  Unless I'm enraged, good or bad.   Yet, it's the one thing I ache for.  To break my own barriers.
I'm sure many are like that.  So, I want to help them, so that they can help me.  

Do not ever think that you do not matter.  Some things go unsaid. But when you look, you will find them.  All around.  

I throw my poetry and comments out here like humble bird seed, just to see the doves.
You are one.

🕊🕊️🕊️🕊️
You are such an enormously amazing individual, dear, S - 💙  
I hold all that you've written me, so very dear.  

'Thank you', hardly seems adequate yet I'm so terrifically thankful to have found your particular voice amidst so many varied and (I'm guessing) kind souls, too. Be it kismet, or just plain good fortune, perhaps both, either way— We two are connected by our love of words and the enormous deep joy and heartbreak of deliciously aching poetry. A bond that we both inadvertently and ardently share..... and thank God, for that, I think, with every read or comment we pass back and forth.... I know you get it and I know that's incredibly rare...  
because not many ever do.  

(definitely holdin' onto that coupon!!)  

🌹 - 💙  
B

A thank you isn't even required, Blue.  All you owe is to continue with the rest of us.  

The bad news; Tomorrow is Monday.  Shit.  Lol

You may think you are alone, but you are not.

🔭📷🎤👀🕵️‍♂️

Damn, how I love 0088

Security (and care) via stealth.
🌹 - 💙
xo

An imposed session of being edged, even by social or medical restrictions, can have an upside.

You want to, but there are just no opportunities.

It's just not time....yet.

You think about it, dwell on it, bite your lip, turn over an unread book without enough concentration to read it.

You discover a talent for making bread, throwing cards, taking cold showers.

You wear out several electronic toys.

The idea eats at you like being nibbled by ducks.

And then....on chance...a window opens....and some wished for moment develops like a Polaroid snapshot, right before your eyes, magically just before oblivion, and the meltdown is.....overwhelmingly welcome, just right, so needed....and more than you could have hoped for.

Edging can lead to some very beautiful places. Just imagine.

You know, I hadn't even looked at my isolation that way... Reading your comments opened up a whole new world/perspective to me ... *sigh*....my pulse started to quicken and by the time I was done reading your insightful remarks, I knew.... that's exactly the lens from which I should view my experience during that time...👌🏻  

Thanks, RT ;)
Those were some searingly yummy comments and even better eye opening.
🌹 - 💙
x

Smiling back...

This.. sunken, I have no words for

🙇🏻‍♀️
Much thanks for the lovely sentiments - 💙


Your poem ~ was one of the best reads all week, I was deeply moved.
Excellent excellent work, there.

It's so lovely to see you 🦋
🌹-B

x

Hey there, lovely lighted one!
I couldn't be more excited and truly appreciative than I was to see you back with us. I tried to remain aloof or low-key but for me, you were so incredibly missed, I couldn't help myself! I felt you were and are such a terrifically valuable and impactful part of my DUP experience that I guess my excitement got the better of me, when I finally left comments for you—Just a quick explanation of my exuberance and utter joy to have your coveted voice, return. - xo

Thank you for your visit and for the lovely, beautiful way in which you see my intentions /me through this piece... I adore your thoughtfulness and I'm so thankful you left you that pov with me. (I'm glad you felt the written emotional outpour) I feel lucky to have a bit of you light's essence to warm myself in!

Very much obliged, dear poetess
🌹 - 💙
B

Hauntingly barren. You deliver the emptiness we sometimes feel, all to well when times are bad. I've almost forgotten when they were ever good!

I'm very appreciative of your thoughtful comments and deeply thank you for leaving them with me.  

Yes, You're absolutely correct! I agree that we've all had our fill of the darker emotions that the last two years have seemed to deliver, aplenty.
Here's hoping for brighter days ahead... 🔆

🌹 - B

Hope for better days ahead, I agree but for now we are stuck in this quagmire you paint, in my opinion. I wanna say, HEY YOU! A reference to Pink Floyd's track on The Wall album. Maybe you should just listen to the whole album. It won't cheer you up but will probably make you feel like going further underground.

Sometimes embracing the darkness is therapy too!
Thanks for the recommendation...
-B

I know what you mean. Whether we are artists or not, sometimes we have to dig down low, so damn low in order to get rid of it, almost.

Dearest. Lady Blue❣
You capture so well the profound melancholy of our forced isolation. It's nice to be somewhat back to normal. You're such a wonderful writer my goddess BB 🐻💞🐰

Ohhh BB... sometimes I don't really feel legit, until I get to read and experience your perception(s) on how a piece I've written has come across 'to land'. So needless to say, it's really wonderful to see you! 🦋 (I hope you are doing well, dear poet) I'm so glad you're back to somewhat normal, good to hear! I still fell like I'm caught in a bit of a loop /trap. Maybe that comes from still working from home and a continuation of pretty much keeping my distance; a choice that sometimes now feels like habit. I'll work my way up to getting or becoming more social. It will just take time...

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me, your kindness is deeply felt and I'm delighted you could sense the impact that I wanted to drive home.
You're a truly wonderful and lovely friend 🙏🏻

All my warmest thanks-💙
🌹-🐻-🐰-🤗
xo

Loneliness is a double-edged muse. There's a lot of give and take there, but at the end of the day, it takes more than it's worth. It's something we've all had to face these past couple years, I think you summed it up beautifully, Blue <3

I often valued my 'alone time' pre-covid and never really worried about being alone or loneliness being much of an issue for me. I always thrived within that headspace previously, and initially didn't think social distancing / quarantining would be a big deal for me. I have a wonderful set of friends both near and far and we all use and have the technology to help us interact and stay within each other's loops. However, just like anything else of abundance, it ended up being about moderation. Isolating for small stretches was ok but when it was something that you had to do for an extended period of time, like the amount of time I had to invest, I learned that it definitely made an enormous impact on my entire being physically, emotionally and mentally. Maybe bigger than I even suspected or could fathom, especially as far as the long term ramifications that might still be mostly unknown.  

Yes, you summed it up well-double edged sword (maybe even triple edged), indeed! ... lol...

Thank you for taking the time to visit and for leaving me your thoughts.  
Much obliged,  
🌹-B

When the loneliness won't leave you alone...
It's a wonderful poem of reflection and deep thought, especially knowing that the world was going crazy and we had to be careful.
Thank you for sharing.

I am grateful for your thoughtful comments as well as getting the fact that carefulness was about more than self protection but about protecting others more vulnerable than myself.

It was and still continues to be a challenge for me. I think it'll take a bit to become completely comfortable in my own skin while participating FULLY out in the world.

Very much obliged, Walter!
🌹 - 💙
B