Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
Submitted by Margaret Sok
Write a poem or story around the theme of 'Lonely Together.'
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Lonely Together
We're lonely together
Well, not really together
Your lonely there
I'm lonely here
We feel alone
Like we have no friends
But we do
We have eachother
Because if no one else will pick me
In a room full of people
You will
And you won't make me feel bad
For my beliefs or what I like
And you don't make insults disguised as jokes
I'm alone here
Your alone there
So we're lonely, together
Because my o...
Lonely Together
Lonely together
I hear your footsteps come down the hall and I know its you, but its not you.
I can hear in your lumbering gait that there is something else there, the loneliness.
You missed it. Again.
I made dinner and you fell asleep, so I ate alone.
I negotiated the toothbrushing and the pajamas and the bedtime stories, and you snored.
I guess its better than fighting, or me trying to wake ...
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I think I loved you
In my way
I shuddered at your beauty
When you bared your soul
Drunk
Happy
Sad
Lovely
I did not flinch
But clamored to you
Your company as sweet
As the cigar smoke on our tongues
Strange that even if I could
Even as I know how we would fit
I would never kiss you
My home and heart is full
But the love isn...
Trademark
Living together but not.
Coexisting in the same world.
Being a family in just the name.
Alone together, it’s all the same.
Two different lives in the same home.
One might be happy while one is alone.
Saying we need to get out of this town.
Needing action soon or we might drown.
Choosing together but drifting apart.
Slowly losing what started it all.
Floating on the cracked solid ground...
Together Alone
Yea I have friends
And I have a friend group!
I think
It’s hard to tell
I join the conversation and they save me a seat
But when they talk to me ours eyes never meet
They said there was a party
They even said I could come
But the invite never came
And now I feel dumb
Are we friends?
Do you like me?
Or are you just politely tolerating me, hoping that I leave you alone.
I’ll treat you like we’re...
Together, Together
Together.
With my cigar, your cigarette.
We’ll smoke it out on the porch, the concrete darkened with the cold pitterpattering of the rain.
It’ll fall on my head, my hair sticking to my head as it becomes drenched, then yours will too.
We’ll smoke all our problems away.
When I’m missing my lighter, we’ll crush the drugs and scrape it into a line and snort it up.
I’ll see the world, and you...
Them <3
Sweethearts that have finally met,
gistening eyes, glimmering inside an empty room,
Empty house, warmed by the sun.
Her’s warmed by his sunny stare.
They’ll watch dust babies collect,
Blown by collective laughs,
Termites gnaw at his bone in mistake for housewood,
She’ll bite carefully too.
Rots seeps where weeds follow,
but conversation never falters,
Her words muffled by hanging skin,
He ca...
We're all to blame
Yumiko stood on the roof, an unlit cigarette dangling loosely from her fingers. She couldn't smoke it. She promised Hoshiko that she would drop the habit... besides she had already tried. It would seem a year was indeed enough time to drop a vice because the last time she tried lighting a cigarette it had left the brunette on her knees, gasping for air. It wasn't a panic attack. It wasn't grief. ...