Isolation

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

Isolation

untouched

unloved

alone

misunderstood

reviled

refused

rejected

persecuted

censored

banned

unheard

unnoticed

ignored

abandoned

unaided

discouraged

unappreciated

disapproved

used

devalued

invalidated

ridiculed

marginalized

discarded

degraded

...

Isolation ... so much more than a word.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Are you ok ?!!!!!!! and why is your private messages turned off?

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

~smile~

Define "ok".

I exist.

And I was unaware my private messages was turned off. I will attend to that now. Thank you for drawing it to my attention.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Sorry I had a mothering alarm instinct moment there I will try and curb it in the future

 

[bflagsst]

Arc of Meaning

adorable

alluring

covetable

untouchable

indomitable

unyielding

pariah

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I like starting with one word and playing synonym bridge until I get to near opposites for my meaning of the original.

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

I hope you won't suppress it, at least, not on my account.

I am a passionate man. I experience great joy, and great sorrow.

I wrote "Isolation" a couple of months ago, as that was exactly how I felt.

One word after another just poured out, no thought, no hesitation.

Several have found it disturbing, as was my intent.

Very few really stop to consider how they treat others.

There are so many drama-driven individuals on the net, whole sites devoted to them because they are guaranteed repeat visitors (keeping in mind number of hits drives advertising revenue).

And all these dramas need a "villain", a scape-goat for all that is wrong with these individuals, projected upon one whom they can all mob in some kind of "Lord of the Flies" frenzy.

Well, what of that individual selected to be the "villain", the scape-goat?

"Isolation" is my answer.

Those who have experienced it nod quietly.

Those who have never experienced it are shocked.

And those who treat others in this way shrug it off as mere theatrics.

Poetry is supposed to evoke an emotion.

In the depths of my isolation, I evoked yours.

namaste

 

[bflagsst]

Here's my version of 'Isolation':

Isolation

Reflective

Conscious

Self-aware

Conscience

Reconciliatory

Atonement

At-one-ment


Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Krishna Krishna

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I hope you won't suppress it, at least, not on my account.

I am a passionate man. I experience great joy, and great sorrow.

I wrote "Isolation" a couple of months ago, as that was exactly how I felt.

One word after another just poured out, not thought, no hesitation.

Several have found it disturbing, as was my intent.

Very few really stop to consider how they treat others.

There are so many drama-driven individuals on the net, whole sites devoted to them because they are guaranteed repeat visitors (keeping in mind number of hits drives advertising revenue).

And all these dramas need a "villain", a scape-goat for all that is wrong with these individuals, projected upon one whom they can all mob in some kind of "Lord of the Flies" frenzy.

Well, what of that individual selected to be the "villain", the scape-goat?

"Isolation" is my answer.

Those who have experienced it nod quietly.

Those who have never experienced it are shocked.

And those who treat others in this way shrug it off as mere theatrics.

Poetry is supposed to evoke an emotion.

In the depths of my isolation, I evoked yours.

namaste

It was pure instinct now I feel really wierd about it I didn't stop to think in a way I couldn't

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

It was pure instinct now I feel really wierd about it I didn't stop to think in a way I couldn't

I think it speaks very highly of your humanity that you responded thus, compelled from within.

Isolation is the primal cry of the abandoned infant, the lost child, the lonely teen, the misunderstood adult and the forgotten elder.

I reposted it today as I am feeling much the same as when I wrote it.

Thank you for showing me not all are lost ... there is some hope.

namaste

 

[EroticOrogeny]

I think it speaks very highly of your humanity that you responded thus, compelled from within.

Isolation is the primal cry of the abandoned infant, the lost child, the lonely teen, the misunderstood adult and the forgotten elder.

I reposted it today as I am feeling much the same as when I wrote it.

Thank you for showing me not all are lost ... there is some hope.

namaste

I hope you soon don't feel so isolated. The personal touch is lacking on the internet, but it does offer a way to reach out and be touched by others. It looks like your home is both lovely and lonely, other than the animals.

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

I hope you soon don't feel so isolated. The personal touch is lacking on the internet, but it does offer a way to reach out and be touched by others. It looks like your home is both lovely and lonely, other than the animals.

~smile~

Thank you.

It was not always so.

Love dwelt here once. So much love you merely had to pass the gate to feel it.

Perhaps Love will return some day.

The pups and I hope one day it might be so.

 

[bluerains]

speaks

I
Am
The
Living
God

 

[bluerains]

simple

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[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

Rejected by the Author's Hangout for being too ethical ...

Rejected by a Christian because the help I offered was motivated by compassion, and not motivated by a Fear of God ...

~sigh~

"Play it again, Sam".

Isolation

untouched

unloved

alone

misunderstood

reviled

refused

rejected

persecuted

censored

banned

unheard

unnoticed

ignored

abandoned

unaided

discouraged

unappreciated

disapproved

used

devalued

invalidated

ridiculed

marginalized

discarded

degraded

...

Isolation ... so much more than a word.

 

[bflagsst]

I was curious what you meant and went over to the Authors area. I usually don't like going over there because of the daily threads just like that. We have arguments here too, usually sillier and smaller because there are less of us. If you write good stories they tend to forgive and forget, sorta. But carrying an argument past a day is really only stress on you, not the people you're arguing with. They won't remember much of it a week from now, whereas you might still harbor a grudge against a faceless mass of people. Arguments take away energy from being creative, so I try to keep mine to a minimum. I've read your poems, I hope you keep writing and submitting them.

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

I was curious what you meant and went over to the Authors area. I usually don't like going over there because of the daily threads just like that. We have arguments here too, usually sillier and smaller because there are less of us. If you write good stories they tend to forgive and forget, sorta. But carrying an argument past a day is really only stress on you, not the people you're arguing with. They won't remember much of it a week from now, whereas you might still harbor a grudge against a faceless mass of people. Arguments take away energy from being creative, so I try to keep mine to a minimum. I've read your poems, I hope you keep writing and submitting them.

Thank you.

It is not a grudge, just a recognition that there is yet another place where I do not belong.

I think there is a form of isolation reserved for those who find their awareness reaching a level where others can no longer relate ... something about freeing one's self from ego ... it is difficult to keep in mind most people still operate under the control of their ego, with all the insecurities and defensiveness that comes with it.

They're so frail ... feel like a bull in a china shop.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

You hardly expected them to agree with you did you?

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

You hardly expected them to agree with you did you?

One of the first things I learned was not to have expectations when it comes to people.

Just let them be who they choose to be.

Another thing I've learned is I'm in a Catch-22.

I was taught to treat everyone as equals. That to do otherwise was condescending and disrespectful.

So when I treat others as equal, ie without ego, they freak out.

But if I handle them the way their egos require, I am disrespecting them, treating them like immature children who need their egos stroked.

That's why I end up isolated.

As often as I've tried to reach out, I've been slapped down.

It just gets to a point where it is easier on everyone but me for me to avoid everyone.

Everyone else is a lot happier when no one like me is around.

 

[bflagsst]

One of the first things I learned was not to have expectations when it comes to people.

Just let them be who they choose to be.

Another thing I've learned is I'm in a Catch-22.

I was taught to treat everyone as equals. That to do otherwise was condescending and disrespectful.

So when I treat others as equal, ie without ego, they freak out.

But if I handle them the way their egos require, I am disrespecting them, treating them like immature children who need their egos stroked.

That's why I end up isolated.

As often as I've tried to reach out, I've been slapped down.

It just gets to a point where it is easier on everyone but me for me to avoid everyone.

Everyone else is a lot happier when no one like me is around.

We were just talking about self-identity, for only a little, but we hit around what it meant to describe yourself as an artist. For the most part people would say you are what you eat. An artist can be an artist in isolation, as long as they are being creative. But I haven't entirely accepted that yet, because it goes against how I identify myself as part of a community.

I haven't gotten as far as how an artist serves a purpose in a community, which I think would be a big part of any artist's self-identity; like I think you're talking about in your other thread. But I accept that how I view myself is built by the people I care the most about, and then by a series of lesser important people to lesser degrees, on down to internet people and people in passing.

Where am I going with this? I'm winging it right now, but I don't think you should ever feel isolated by people you don't care for deeply. I have different expectations of people when I'm on the Internet or just walking down the street or in a place I don't know anyone. I can argue and be childish with the best of 'em on the Internet and tell people to go read my poems because they're superb and all that. Because you can never really care that deeply about people you can't see, smell, touch. Your computer screen is always an arm's-length away, no matter how hard you want to embrace people. So it's just a matter of modifying my expectations when I'm here or the workplace or on a subway car.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

One of the first things I learned was not to have expectations when it comes to people.

Just let them be who they choose to be.

Another thing I've learned is I'm in a Catch-22.

I was taught to treat everyone as equals. That to do otherwise was condescending and disrespectful.

So when I treat others as equal, ie without ego, they freak out.

But if I handle them the way their egos require, I am disrespecting them, treating them like immature children who need their egos stroked.

That's why I end up isolated.

As often as I've tried to reach out, I've been slapped down.

It just gets to a point where it is easier on everyone but me for me to avoid everyone.

Everyone else is a lot happier when no one like me is around.

Well you rather went about it in the wrong place or dare I say it in the wrong way. It's like going into a barbers convention and swearing black is white that it's wrong to get your hair cut, there's no way you are going to be welcomed with open arms and it doesn't take being a rocket scientist to work that out. Either you want to be part of that world or you don't and if you do you don't go shooting your mouth off condemning those that already live there.

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

Well you rather went about it in the wrong place or dare I say it in the wrong way. It's like going into a barbers convention and swearing black is white that it's wrong to get your hair cut, there's no way you are going to be welcomed with open arms and it doesn't take being a rocket scientist to work that out. Either you want to be part of that world or you don't and if you do you don't go shooting your mouth off condemning those that already live there.

Well ...
1. As I said, I don't start with expectations. What you're telling me is I should have judged them before I even knew them ... before I ever gave them a chance to show me who they are. That would be "prejudice" and I'm not much of a fan of that either.

2. I know neither the posters, nor the audience. Even if I were so inclined as to judge them first, I have no information upon which to base the prejudice.

3. I do not dictate the responses I get, and without a crystal ball there is no knowing how they might react to the issue I raised.

I suppose if I am to be condemned, it would have to be for having any hope of making contact with others who would understand.

But then, I look at what improvements cynicism has made in the world and I have yet to find any.

So yes, I am definitely guilty of acting on hope.

Fry me.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Prejudice has nothing to do with it but I can't see that you could expect anything different on what is basically a porn site. I have no bones to pick with you and I also have had my ears singed for speaking out about something I found abhorrent so perhaps I am the last one who should be saying anything at all.

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

We were just talking about self-identity, for only a little, but we hit around what it meant to describe yourself as an artist. For the most part people would say you are what you eat. An artist can be an artist in isolation, as long as they are being creative. But I haven't entirely accepted that yet, because it goes against how I identify myself as part of a community.

I should like to consider myself a part of the human community, but it seems humanity prefers to think of me as an alien, when they're not thinking of me as a demon.

I haven't gotten as far as how an artist serves a purpose in a community, which I think would be a big part of any artist's self-identity; like I think you're talking about in your other thread. But I accept that how I view myself is built by the people I care the most about, and then by a series of lesser important people to lesser degrees, on down to internet people and people in passing.

Self-image is not a difficulty. I had ten years of true love with my wife and four wonderful years with my son before they passed away.

Who I was in their eyes is who I am in mine. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply showing how little they know me.

Where am I going with this? I'm winging it right now, but I don't think you should ever feel isolated by people you don't care for deeply.

Lynch mobs will do that.

Not just because their fear and insecurity is so great only hanging you will make them feel better, but also because there is no one jumping in to oppose the mob.

It leads to the inescapable conclusion that humans are so used to undeserved cruelty they simply turn a blind eye to it and continue.

So between the fear of the mob and the indifference of spectators one gets a pretty good view of humanity in the 21st century.

There are none like me.

Because you can never really care that deeply about people you can't see, smell, touch.

And that is the reason why there are lynch mobs, and why there are indifferent spectators.

It's all just a video game ... no one ever gets hurt and if they do its their own fault.

Like I said, there are none like me.

It is easier for all of you to either be part of the mob or to remain indifferent when someone like me isn't around pricking your conscience simply by existing.

Easier to kill the beast a la "Lord of the Flies" than it is to grow a conscience.

I have nothing in common with the mob or the spectators, and as there seems to be no other type of person here, I really don't belong.

I entered with hope. I leave knowing there is no hope of finding a kindred spirit.

This is why I remain alone.

 

[LoveIsAllYouNeed]

Prejudice has nothing to do with it but I can't see that you could expect anything different on what is basically a porn site.

So what you are saying is I should expect the same from you as I got from them, since you too are on a "porn site".

All the more reason for me to go, n'est pas?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

So what you are saying is I should expect the same from you as I got from them, since you too are on a "porn site".

All the more reason for me to go, n'est pas?

Possibly as I have nothing against them writing the sort of fiction that you don't like, there are people who go to both those threads and the poetry section that are doing both survivor contests and I believe that is one of the genres that has to be included. Why don't you just do as I do just don't read the stuff you don't like? If you chose to leave you are cutting off your nose to spite your face and missing out on a lot of great material from other people.