FEATURE!!: Lonely Tree

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My sense of loneliness has always been that of a dense hollowness...whose naked screams are cloaked in thick silence that keep me alive and writhing yet leave me quiet and dead. I always wondered if everyone's sense of loneliness was just like mine....did we all feel it in the same way?...like the prick of a pin on the tip of our finger do we all flinch at the sting of a palpable breach of our bodies? Maybe not. Maybe loneliness is like fingerprints- unique and distinguishable. And perhaps the only thing we have in common is that we are all acquainted with it.

A couple of years ago I read a poem by Ella Goodwin called the lonely rose tree...and was fascinated with the following verse
I'm lonely" she murmured, and all the sweet buds
    Echoed, sighingly, "Lonely. so lonely,"
"O, why? tell me why, that I stand here alone__
    Where there should be two, there's one only;
The whole world is full of rose-trees I know,
    Then why am I left to be lonely?"

After I read this poem, I became extremely aware of all the lonely trees I had encountered...the lonely tree surrounded by concrete and cars in the distant corner of the parking lot...the lonely tree growing through a chain link fence at the crumbling juncture of a city park and a dank alleyway...or the lonely tree hugging the smooth curve of the lake where James once professed his love for Katie by gouging out their names in the aging pine...

This feature is dedicated to all those lonely trees that have sheltered new lovers and old friends and lonely souls...

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stirlo7's avatar
this is really great... deep and thick like your thoughts on loneliness.... some of those pictures are quite amazing... nice view on the topic...good point with asking do others feel loneliness the same as we may share pain.... maybe like a pain threshold theres a loneliness threshold we all create for ourselves depending on what life throws to us. thanks for making me think..