lonesomeness

“The song is really a culmination of the feelings I’ve felt while traveling alone, where if lonesomeness happened to linger it wasn’t accompanied with sadness but understanding.”

In such poems, to long for an individual serves to conjure a general lonesomeness.

“In the absence of these meetings, remember to heed your prayers and devotions in your lonesomeness,” he said.

But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.

He told his friend that they helped take his mind away from his lonesomeness.