IAN EMBERSON
1936 - 2013

WRITER AND ARTIST

 

Aloneness


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Aloneness

Loneliness and aloneness
they are not the same

for the shell of the mind
hears echoes of many seas

it hears the calling of gulls
from this savage sky

and an ebbing tide
lapping the small white stones.