‘An Astonishing Cure For Loneliness’ Use this title to inspire a story or a poem.
An Astonishing Cure For Loneliness
By Gabrielle Clover
Surrounded by strangers
Solitude rises on the steam
Of my Earl Gray tea
To whisper sweet nothings in my ear
And I try not to be jealous of how those leaves
Cling to each other as they loll around
In the hot tub of the pot
Sitting in a cafe
Surrounded by strangers
My tea cup settles back into the embrace
Of the saucer
I try not to think about how nice it would be
To be someone’s saucer
To have a human fit so perfectly
Into the groove of me
To hold each other steady
There for whether the cup
is full or empty
Sitting in a cafe
Surrounded by strangers
I concentrate on the maniacal
dancing of fingers on a keyboard
and thoughts becoming visible in ink
I listen to the swish of the paper
Flicking to a new page
And try not to associate it with the swish of a
Meringue dress
Sweeping up wedding cake crumbs
from the dance floor
As the first dance begins
And just before my mind flies off for a
hermitic honeymoon
The pens still
The tip tap typing petters out
We sit in a circle
Reading embryonic pieces
Words mingling in the space between us
And it is my turn to read
A poem about loneliness
Which no longer exists

Gabe Clover
Sunday Wrters' Club member
A fantastic poem, Gabe. Many thanks for sharing it with us.
I love this poem – it’s the very first we got about Sunday Writers’ Club. It’s special to know what SWC means to you (or meant to you in that particular session in Vienna). Thank you for sharing it.