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Always Follow Your Heart

October 21, 2017 Rasma Raisters 47 Views 0 Comments dreams, hearts, love, poems, poetry

Life is not always kind and at times love is out of sight. It will be alright – as long

In Hast We Waste Our True Thoughts

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Tony De Lorger 24 Views 0 Comments choosing words, delusions, hast, poem, protection, sincerity

Hast a mistake… No words of adhesion were ever uttered in hast, saturated with emotions and a defensive posture, yet

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Mornings Run, a Beauty

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Tony De Lorger 29 Views 2 Comments beauty, knowing, morning, nature, poem, soursobs

A tiny soursob quivers under weight of dew, mornings invitation to open and yellow petaled blooms do stretch as light

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

All What I Am…Indelible

October 19, 2017 Tony De Lorger 33 Views 2 Comments hopeful, indelible, knowledge, poem, sentient, vessel

I am a vessel of life, a fountain of knowledge, a store of experience, and as broken as a heart

Creative Writing Essay

A Perception of Human Misery

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 Tony De Lorger 38 Views 2 Comments essay, forgiveness, human drama, judgement, misery, observer

The Sources of Human Misery… Why do we become so confused, so embroiled in human drama and the emotional undulations

Fiction Historical Fiction

Sam’s War – Siege of Bastogne Belgium 1944

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 53 Views 0 Comments Batogne Belgium, December 1944, General McAuliffe, General Patton, Germany, war

Sam’s War – Bastogne 1944 Sam could not understand what happened, he was laying on rocky ground. He was drifting

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Entanglement, Our Pure Connection with Life

October 18, 2017 Tony De Lorger 48 Views 4 Comments all one, energy connects, entanglement, epistle, perception, though effects

I see my reflection in water, a shimmering refraction of my countenance, yet in recognition, that water is as me,

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Revealing the Secrets of Infinite Life

October 18, 2017 Tony De Lorger 37 Views 2 Comments as one, communication, connection, infinite life, poem, secrets

The quintessential truth is apparent, the delusions without measure, and the fears that bind us to past and failure, just

Halloween Poetry

I Dare You! – A Halloween Night Challenge

October 18, 2017 R J Schwartz 82 Views 3 Comments fright, graves, halloween, haunted, RJ Schwartz, witching hour

The witching hour soon at hand A blanket of darkness across the land Fullest moon behind the clouds Heavy fog

Poetry Romantic Poetry

I Remember – Every Moment of Comfort

October 18, 2017 R J Schwartz 46 Views 2 Comments comfort, love, missing you, RJ Schwartz, romance, soulmates

I remember…. The soft kiss on your lips …awake but for a moment I watched you as you settled …perhaps

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Allow My True Self Rise

October 18, 2017October 18, 2017 Tony De Lorger 30 Views 2 Comments allow, poem, potential, propensity, rise, wisdom

The well inside me is drying, the sun scorched plains of my desert barren and seemingly void of potential, yet

Creative Writing Short Story

He Just Stood There – Watching the Events Unfold

October 17, 2017 R J Schwartz 35 Views 3 Comments Cat and mouse, Crime drama, following, murder, Professional, victim

He just stood there. His body rigid, like the trunk of a giant redwood tree, despite the needle-sharp rain ripping

Epistle Free Verse Poetry

There is No Truth in Division

October 17, 2017October 17, 2017 Tony De Lorger 44 Views 2 Comments all life the same, division, Epiphany, epistle, synchronicity, we are one

Division just inhibits potential… Synchronicity pleas questioning, as life pairs events seemingly unrelated to epiphanies of realization, the wonder we

Epistle Free Verse Poetry

The Fading of Conflict

October 17, 2017 Tony De Lorger 59 Views 2 Comments conflict, epistle, fading, forgiveness and understanding, no ego or pride, no retaliation

The winds of ill-will pervade, and life in protection becomes a fortress, we, so battered by disdain, surround ourselves with

Books Poetry

Poetry and Thoughts Of A Wandering Man: Uniquely Colorado

October 17, 2017October 18, 2017 Kurt James 158 Views 4 Comments Colorado, Ghost Tale, kurt james, kurt james author, poetry, Poetry and Thoughts Of A Wandering Man: Uniquely Colorado, tragic lost

Poetry and Thoughts Of A Wandering Man: Uniquely Colorado Kurt James new book ” Poetry and Thoughts Of A Wandering

Free Verse Poetry

They Used to Be Whole

October 17, 2017October 16, 2017 Tony De Lorger 35 Views 2 Comments deceit, deluded, hell fire, once trusted, poem, whole

Tempting, the guile of treacherous tongues, disseminating wills in subtle nuance, yet below that smile, that amorous countenance, lies the

Free Verse Poetry

The Best We Can Hope For

October 17, 2017October 17, 2017 Rasma Raisters 71 Views 4 Comments happiness, hearts, hope, love, poetry, rainbows

Shining hope into our hearts … The best we can hope for, is love that is true, a dream that

Free Verse Poetry

However Painful the Score

October 16, 2017 Tony De Lorger 49 Views 0 Comments emptiness, feeling the world, hope, nightmares, poem, score

Steal not my remaining hope, let loose my flailing body seek, this darkness hold too much to bare and I

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Contrast and Choice in Woven Life

October 16, 2017 Tony De Lorger 31 Views 0 Comments beauty, cannot detract, hatred, life, poem, woven

Woven Life… Polish those threads of silk, cleanse their colors pure, for the fibers of life recuse the tainted beauty

Creative Writing Halloween Short Story

Eerie Sense of Being Watched – Conclusion

October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 79 Views 4 Comments eerie sense, ghost, halloween, short story, terrace, watched

Please see Eerie Sense of Being Watched – Part One for the beginning of this story. Millie knew for sure

Creative Writing Halloween Short Story

Eerie Sense of Being Watched – Part One

October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 55 Views 4 Comments eerie sense, frightened, halloween, short story, watched, wrong door

Eerie Sense of Being Watched Millie Jenkins carted out all her Halloween decorations from storage. She stopped by the front

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Truth Means Nothing to Those Unwilling to Hear It

October 15, 2017October 16, 2017 Tony De Lorger 39 Views 2 Comments arrogance, ignored, nothing, poem, unwilling to hear, wisdom

A nightly seer, a hooded monk of stars appeared, and we in awe peered up, his face in shadow, his

Epistle Poetry

Manifesto…the only way to live

October 15, 2017October 16, 2017 Tony De Lorger 38 Views 3 Comments corrupt world, epistle, love and peace, manifesto, our voice within, spiritual path

Freedom does not exist tethered to a world of capitalism, the propaganda instilled from birth, the rewards so alluring, yet

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