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Poetry Rhyming Verse

Sun’s Bequest

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1985 Views 4 Comments bequests, Bitter, change, poem, sun, winter

The Bequest… And the sun donned a hat, sunglasses just so, and winter crept in like a prowling cat, slinking

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

To Bear the Plight of Growth

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2310 Views 4 Comments bear, earth, growth, Heaven, love, poem

Bear the weight…. What falls from heaven into the realm of men, is tainted by the shadows there, for what

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Falling Again

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Paul Neglia 2750 Views 10 Comments beauty, Cupid's strings, freedom, rekindled love, yearning

Falling in Love Again… She never, ever once looked nice Nice being new lampshades She was a work of

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Path of In-Between

July 30, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2010 Views 6 Comments balance, in-between, injustice, life, path, poem

I tread the path of in between, impaled by the truths I in stead have gleaned, and see what stirs

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Spiderwebs of Love

July 30, 2017July 24, 2017 Shannon Henry 2374 Views 6 Comments love, relationships, spiderwebs

Spiderwebs of Love In life, it seems, we build our bonds with tenuous threads How easily they break and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Pour Your Love All Over Me

July 30, 2017July 25, 2017 Shannon Henry 1941 Views 6 Comments child, hold, Holy Spirit, inspiration, love, mercy, prayer, song lyrics

I’ve got this longing deep inside Oh Father, can you hear me cry? Are you really there? And do you

Free Verse Poetry

Summer of Love

July 30, 2017August 2, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2036 Views 10 Comments poems, poetry, spring, summer, summer breezes, summer of love, wild flowers

Each year that passes, brings another summer of love, with bird choruses and bee serenades. Our love blossoms anew, as

Free Verse Poetry

‘Free the Sun July’

July 30, 2017August 2, 2017 Rob Welsh 2571 Views 13 Comments freedom, life, nature, poetry by Pearldiver, relationships, sunless, winter gloom

Free the sun July, refers to the month of July which is a winter month in the Southern hemisphere. This

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Galleons…dared to challenge the Horn

July 30, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1837 Views 8 Comments galleons, grief, lost, poem, tempest, the Horn

Galleons rip through surging waves, tempest tips like frosting edge the grey, and bows sharpened, cut through the swell. Figureheads

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Woodland Life…the cycles of day and night

July 30, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2649 Views 8 Comments cycles, day and night, death and birth, life, poem, woodland

Rarely do I use a four line stanza and A,A,B,B rhyming scheme, but sometimes it suits my purpose, and as

Free Verse Poetry

Death In His Eyes

July 30, 2017 R J Schwartz 2487 Views 9 Comments Devil, Hell, Old scratch, trickery

He had death in his eyes. The type of death that men avoid. The kind of death some deserve. Unnatural

Poetry Rhyming Verse

“Tree Whisper” – Natures Melody

July 30, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 5193 Views 11 Comments Colorado, mountain songs, NATURE MELODY, Rocky Mountains, the wind, TREE WHISPER

Being a child of Colorado and growing into a man of nature, there is nothing more pleasing and comforting than

Fiction Flash Fiction

Painful Memories Still Linger

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2642 Views 10 Comments both hurt, deeply hurt, forgiveness, friendship loss, not healed, painful memories

Painful Memories Lynette woke up with tears on her cheeks. She grabbed a tissue and wiped the tears away.

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Poetic Licence

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 John Hansen 4332 Views 15 Comments poetic licence, poetry, poets, Shakespeare, writing

Poetic Licence Poetic Licence Poets are a unique bunch With rules unto themselves. Throw grammar laws out of the door,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Untouched Softness, Winter’s First Snowfall

July 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3212 Views 6 Comments first snowfall, jingling bells, snowflakes, untouched softness, winter

Untouched Softness Untouched softness of winter’s first snowfall, I love to watch as it slowly sails down, More pure

Creative Writing Essay

The Dressing Down…a Cathartic Event

July 30, 2017July 31, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3117 Views 4 Comments baggage, blame, cathartic, essay, malicious, no forgiveness

Thirty years has transpired since first I met you, and even then the pain you carried was palpable. I’ve watched

Free Verse Poetry

The Days I Found You

July 29, 2017September 13, 2018 Nathan Bernardo 2382 Views 5 Comments booth, found you, Nathan Bernardo, see you, where

The booth, the bar stool … I didn’t expect to miss you when I got there. That place we used

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Upon the Beds of Lesser Men

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1668 Views 4 Comments lesser, men, no love, poem, shallow, using

Upon the beds of lesser men, the stain of use and measure tend to be dismissed, a kiss no deeper

Free Verse Poetry

Flawless…

July 29, 2017August 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3204 Views 8 Comments desire, ecstasy, elegance, flawless, passion, poem

Flawless, pristine soft flesh, bronze undulations, and valleys edged in foliage, silken shadows etched; and each surface a redolent gift,

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

‘Your Life Spark’

July 29, 2017July 30, 2017 Rob Welsh 3343 Views 14 Comments depression, Pearldiver, positive thought, soul searching, understanding, wish

Your life spark is best described as being that very thing that motivates and drives your will to function and

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Tongue

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1887 Views 10 Comments darkness, pain, poem, sex, tirade, Tongue

An acid tongue… Her sour green expectancy, writhes in acrid struggle, and maligned in fate, her will abates, momentary, her

Creative Writing Short Story

Gin House Blues

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Wayne Brown 3435 Views 8 Comments bartender, Beefeater Gin, corner bar, gin, Wayne Brown

“Let’s have one more, Maggie” I say to the middle-age bartender as she wipes down glasses from the washer.

Creative Writing Folklore

Henry’s Last Letter

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Wayne Brown 3996 Views 3 Comments insane asylum, last letter, pleading, sister Jane, Wayne Brown

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Some who have read the following letter have come away confused thus I feel it