... it's about the aftermath

Bravo! You made great, GREATER; which you have the amazing talent to do. Hope your day is exceeding your expectations. Hugs and love, (O), xoxo

The greatness, being your visit and your truly lovely comments, my dear Oral.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, they're always uplifting and truly appreciated.

Day, now. made.
🌹 - 💙
B

It's almost that type of inexplicable loneliness, I guesstimate! Thanks for that keen eye and your thoughtful insights, Jay. I definitely look forward to hearing your pov, it's really contemplative and helpful to me.

I hope you are doing well, much love and loads of beautiful poetry your way ✨
🌹-💙
B

You're right, my friend.
Even within some marriages there are the most desperate of lonely souls. There's something to be said for supposedly being in a relationship, where togetherness is the point, yet feeling the most alone you've ever felt in your life. I can attest. It leaves you absolutely gutted. Just an example of the different facets of loneliness...  

What I learned and continue to learn from that isolating time, is monumentous. Life changing perhaps.

Your thoughts and opinions really affect and rouse my own. Thank you, Tim.

I'm glad you enjoyed reading and felt enough to stop by and share with me. I sincerely appreciate it.
🌹-💙
B

Great write you poetic legend
Grat read,mashed the piece out the park....again
Love and light gorgeous
Ron x

Hey there, you!!
I'm so glad you felt this piece was successful, Ron. That really inspires and let's me breathe a bit easier. I'm so hard on myself that it's often difficult to ascertain. Your visits brighten my day.

I hope you are well and your little side of the world is welcoming Spring.

Thank you for taking the time... It means a lot to me.
🌹-💙
B

oh twisted
fragile mind
tangled within
a fine almost
invisable Web

creating
more intimidating
intrusive fears
while reconnecting
wiith all the long
dormant ones

breathless panic
of being among
familiar settings
that at one time
where a comfortable
sanctuary for sanity

joys of
personal freedom
cruelly taken
replaced by
self denial
of an insane situation

shame
self worth
given daily access
as true faith
is slowly
strangled

death throes
of confidence
under masks
world closing in
a claustrophobic
crushing.

Wow,, Colin!
He's fucking back, ladies and gentlemen!!!! 👍🏻
Woo-hoo.
Thanks a ton for the awesome feedback. I'm tickled that I was able to inspire!
Yes yes yes!!!

🌹-💙
B

(Possible title for your poem-ply =
Pandemic Pandemonium
My permission to use it if you're so wanting!!.)

I wrote about that stage....and it seemed that enduring in time....my isolation turned to insulation....a resolved that allowed me to push ahead of myself....reworked and reframed....growth can be a painful thing.

I think we all might have had a poem or two about similar feelings around that weird and emotional time, even if you had additional family around to quarantine with... I should go back and read your headspace!!...  

Indeed, growth can be terrifically harsh. Especially when you're not quite wanting or expecting it... Lol... Sometimes though, it was the good pain. Cathartic, in knowing that I was possibly strong enough to carry on...  

Thank you for reading, RT.
Your thoughts make for a nice dose of solidarity

Hope you are having a good day.
🌹-B

Lovin' the beauty of this write both in terms of its artwork & words.
It's funny (amazing) how you can make negativity sound so damn positive!

Wow!
What a tremendous comment and deeply appreciated compliment. I'm so glad you were able to feel that energy /conveyance. What an awesome and cool notion!  

I never really thought in terms of positive or negative, I don't think but I can now see that's possible, absolutely. There were days of truly relishing, needing and enjoying my aloneness and others where melancholia caught up with me.

Your thoughts are meaningful, thank you for sharing them with me.  
🌹 - B

The journey of life is adventure.  You can be my adventure anytime you want.  Keep on writing you  strong beautiful smart sexy woman.

You're so very right... An adventure that we never quite know where it might lead!! You crack me up Francisco!
Thanks for the lovely comments and for being a wonderful faithful reader.

🌹-

That's the thing with writing. The isolation. It is easy to accept and
not even notice cause - at least for me - I need it to write.
I need to be alone in order to focus and sometimes I get grouchy or irritated when
I get disturbed. Yikes. Normally I'm a people person - can talk your ears off - other times
I love the quiet of my mind. Just flowing and getting into that music of creativity.
Realized I had to find a balance - still working on it though.

That picture is amazing as well - I can feel abandonment when I look at it.
But that sun gives a little hope:)

Great write B!!

Hey there, A :)
The ability to create and to dive deep into one's one truth is often better suited to flourish in solitude, in my opinion, too. However, this pandemic has shone it's harsh light of reality upon what being alone, really means. I had previously never usually felt lonely being on my own. It wasn't until that choice to socialize was removed and stripped away from the equation that I had came to understand all the complexities involved in isolating.  

It helped creatively in some ways and definitely hurt in a variety of others. Lessons learned that will always remain with me.  

I can't thank you enough for sharing where this piece allowed your own thoughts to travel to. It's so important and sincerely valuable to me.  

All my warmest regards and tremendous appreciation for taking the time you have, dear lady ✨

Such a wonderful pleasure seeing you 🦋  
🌹 - 💙  
B

hello beautiful Blue I relate to this write very deeply
it's very difficult thing loneliness I am lonely quite a bit
but find navigating relationships very tiring and draining
I don't the answer for my personal dilemma
I am lonely often...I myself am to blame...

you beautiful one deserve the best in life ❤️

Hey there, Brenda🦋
Your words of truth and shared sense of aloneness make it a bit easier for me to wrap my mind around the love/hate emotions that I have discovered being alone at length, has left me with.

Personal relationships are sometimes hard to navigate, I agree... It's when you find those few special folks that are easy, unfettered and make deep connected friendships a real breeze, that you hang onto them, cherishing their strengths...

All my warmest gratitude and deep thanks for sharing your thoughts and for taking the time you have, my dear lady. It means a lot to me - 💞

🌹 - 💙
B

The pandemic brought about so much
psychological complexity...

By the courage of your introspection,
you have shed light on many of the aspects of this complexity, in such a beautiful way.

Most excellent, B.

Thanks, C
-🌹

i relate deeply and profoundly, thank you for sharing

I am grateful for the list add and very appreciative of the kind words.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me. I'm so glad you enjoyed and found some worthiness here.

The breadth of aloneness is often shared in a solidarity of understanding ... Especially in today's world. Hopefully you've found your way back a bit, like I have. I think there are some 'getting used to it all again' feelings that I have still every so often... It'll be nice when that fades all together.

It's a treat having you here - 🦋
🌹-💙
B

Dear BV,

If you hadn’t shared the genius of your talent in the stanzas prior to your closing line…your closing line says everything. For me this bloody virus and every politician has robbed the globe of so much we can only hope to regain a fraction of what was stolen. Your poem has captured so many feelings of my own it’s rather uncanny and I really appreciate it.
I love the introspection in this piece. It’s real and i need that thread. Especially when everything else feels so surreal.
H🌷

Dearest H,

Your thoughtfulness is only matched by your immense kindness. Thank you for your wonderfully astute observations and our apparent
'sympatico' mindset.

It means so much to realize that you're not alone in various mindsets and ways of thinking. So
you, sharing my feelings makes for that soothing sensation that helps towards healing. Here's to solidarity and the hopeful understanding (or possibkr potential) for healthier, happier days ahead.

You're always a bright 🔆 light.
Ty so much for sharing with me.
Much love, dear lady ✨
🌹 - B

Eloquently described, our masses of solo messes.  
I didn't know you then...
I woulda sent paper plane poems through your window.  

In spite of the miserable circumstances that this poem of yours was born within, it shines long after any pandemic will.  Great write.

I'll say it here, too... I've missed you and our communications. I hope you are doing well-🙏

*I would have read and cherished each and every one of those paper airplane poems, too ... Knowing me, I'd have probably pressed them into a book, like how you dry flowers... More than likely whichever one I happened to be reading in that moment, so then I could randomly take them out and reread over and over again..... ;)

Thanks for the lovely sentiments, S.
I'm glad your could feel/sense the illumination.

🌹 - 💙
B

Don't dare me!   Lol.  
Of course it's hot and humid as hell, so your windows are probably closed, AC on.  And those dinky paper planes would just doink off the glass.
And then get rained on and wilted tomorrow.   Sigh...
Because, fuck Florida weather.  Lol

Wait!  A kids bow and arrow, with the sucker tip thingies instead of arrow heads!  They can stick to the windows!  What!  

Okay, when you hear a splat, it's just me.  Not a real arrow, don't call police, etc etc.  

Hey, if you smile that smile of yours, it's worth it.

It's utterly beaming.... 😁



🌹 - x

Reflecting on those days certainly brings a level of depth.
"I oblivious bask in the complacency
of my delusional
own doing" just loved the way that sounds.
Awesome work.

Thanks for reading and leaving your thoughts with me, W... Some of those quarantined days definitely morphed into one after the other, skewing my own sense of time and space, that's for sure..... It's a vivid reminder to have these little poetic snapshots into how I was feeling... Thanks for the nod, my love

It's nice seeing you...
🌹 - B
x