This poem came to me as the first line and then I built on two words: lonely and single to really double down on the theme of loneliness. Secondary theme or word association here is plants.
I’m tentatively putting this in a series of poetry I’m calling Fragments. I want these to be short poems about a single topic.
lonely as a single tree in a barren field
lonely as a single barren tree in a field of sunflowers
lonely as a single sunflower in a forest of trees
lonely as a single rose in a bouquet of daffodils