Solitude scares me not as I wallow in the quiet.
Exquisite silence joins me, sits beside me like an old friend,
Placing a congratulatory arm around me in comfort.
As refreshing as a hot bath or a shot of Glenlivet;
Sharpening the senses as a razors edge,
Carving away at the clutter of modernity,
Replacing it with the simple rhythms of my own beating heart.
At times, as joyous as intimacy,
Energizing and euphoric yet primitive;
Cleansing the mind, lifting the soul.
This rejuvenation, one of the great pleasures of life,
Elementary in conception, is often not easily obtained
As responsibilities, self-imposed or otherwise throw up their gauntlets.
Unavoidable without effort in our hectic sphere;
Time for self must be apportioned for sanity’s sake
If we are to live healthful and fruitful lives.
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Dom DiFrancesco 
Solitude can be quite refreshing – quite peaceful.
Sadly, most of us don’t get enough of it, but that is modern life I guess. :)
i have really been enjoying some of these longer poems from you Dominic
Thank you very much. When I first started posting on this site I wrote longer poems almost exclusively, but decided to spice it up a little with some of the shorter ones. I may go back to posting more of my longer work in the near future since I have quite a collection of them. :)
longer is good – it gives us (the reader) more Dom in one sitting!
I understand solitude – I get quite a bit of it and have gotten to the point where it has gotten to be too much, but i deal with it. I write;)
Well thank you. :) That is very nice to hear. I worry that the longer ones will cause people to lose interest, but maybe not. You will be seeing more of them. By the way my family says I am “wordy” so longer ones shouldn’t be hard for me. :)
At present I’m considering joining one of those silent orders. Days that follow an established pattern, and silence, so much wonderful silence… Like the Glenlivet line ;)
Thank you Anna, sounds like you are on the right path. Cheers to the Glenlivet, have one for me. :)