Gay or straight, people
without a partner or close loved ones, for whatever reason, can feel very
lonely; it can so easily seem as if everyone else has someone, and we feel shut
out. Yet, love comes in many shapes and forms. We don't have to be in a
relationship or even a family to be comforted and inspired by love wherever it
makes itself felt.
Simply going
for a walk and soaking up the landscape can bring us into contact with other
people and help us find words to go further than that first 'hello'. Then, of
course, there is always the power of imagination; reading has taken me to some
wonderful places and introduced me to a range of wonderful characters. I
used to love reading and miss it now that my eyes get too tired to read as
often as I would like. Earth Mother, too, is a great comforter, inviting us to share and be inspired by the beauty of the natural world for all its unpredictability.
There is
only one cure for loneliness; think positive and do something
about it. Oh, and never for one second believe you are the only lonely person
in your locality. The trick is to home in on a feeling for love, nurture it, and leave the rest
to nature and human nature…
WHERE’S
ROBIN?
Two
people meet and fall in love,
live
happy-ever-after,
though
tears of grief and pain
among
sounds of joy
and
laughter like drops of acid rain
in leafy
evergreen
Some
never fall in love,
stay
single ever after,
conceal
tears of grief and pain,
among sounds
of joy
and
laughter like drops of acid rain
in leafy
evergreen
Oh, how
love confounds us,
many its
shapes
and sounds
joining with nature
to bring
happiness,
like the
song of redbreast rarely seen
in leafy
evergreen
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2001; 2015
[A
slightly different version of this poem appeared in Hands of Time, Poetry Now
[Forward Press] 2001 and subsequently in First
Person Plural by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2002; revised ed. in
e-format in preparation.]
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