Sundays, like a stanza break Or shower's end of all applause, For some old unexplaining sake The optimistic tread these shores, As lonely as the dead awake Or God among the dinosaurs.

From The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 - 1995 by Glyn Maxwell. Copyright © 2000 by Glyn Maxwell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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Poems by This Author

Joey Awake Now by Glyn Maxwell Some poems The Only Work by Glyn Maxwell When a poet leaves to see to all that matters

Further Reading

Poems about Anonymity and Loneliness 79 by Joachim du Bellay Don't Let Me Be Lonely [There was a time] by Claudia Rankine Alone by Maya Angelou Alone for a Week by Jane Kenyon Angel of Duluth [excerpt] by Madelon Sprengnether At a Window by Carl Sandburg Beyond the Pane by Greg Hewett Boston by Aaron Smith Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams Dear Lonely Animal, by Oni Buchanan Donal Óg by Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory Drawing from Life by Reginald Shepherd Eating Alone by Li-Young Lee Found Poem by Howard Nemerov Gospel by Philip Levine How I Am by Jason Shinder How the mind works still to be sure by Jennifer Denrow How to See Deer by Philip Booth I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke I Am! by John Clare I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260) by Emily Dickinson Isolation: To Marguerite by Matthew Arnold Loneliness by Trumbull Stickney Mnemosyne by Trumbull Stickney Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope On the Terrace by Landis Everson R.I.P., My Love by Tory Dent Sex by Michael Ryan Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell Song of Myself by John Canaday Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish The Creation by James Weldon Johnson The Daffodils by William Wordsworth The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot The Sleepers by Walt Whitman The Suicide by Edna St. Vincent Millay the suicide kid by Charles Bukowski This Is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Toro by Sarah Gambito WHERE? by Kenneth Patchen Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman Why is the Color of Snow? by Brenda Shaughnessy Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan