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Writers on the Web by Phyllis Doyle Burns

July 17, 2017August 4, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3122 Views 15 Comments creative exiles, Jim Morrison, Mark Twain, muse, Phyllis Doyle, poetry

Writers on the Web by Phyllis Doyle Burns Writers on the web Writers on the web To T C E

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Dreams, the Currency of Creative Mind

July 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1732 Views 2 Comments currency, dreams, happiness, poem, process, soul

In solace I placate my fallen dreams, not meant to be, I equate it seems, yet what matters is where

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Pitch Black Room

July 17, 2017August 4, 2017 Paul Neglia 3100 Views 14 Comments blindness, darkness, despair, hopelessness, sadness

Pitch Black Room It’s always night-time in the depths Behind the eyes, a vacant life Alive, my mind, my dying

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

Accept an Alien Today, You’re Surrounded by Them

July 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2267 Views 11 Comments alien, consiousness, epistle, God, infinite words, soul

The vast and endless cosmos is brimming with life, adaptation and environments create forms not dissimilar to ours, for the

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Against the Grain of Life

July 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2169 Views 8 Comments grain, life hedonistic, poem, reason, soul, superficial

I find myself transfixed by the profanely erudite views of Libertines who claim the patronage of intellect, yet display the

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

What’s Taken and Bestowed

July 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2146 Views 4 Comments bestowed, learning, pain, poem, soul, taken

The souls knows not what it seeks, only that it does, and the mind seeks the illusions of its calling,

Creative Writing Song Lyrics

Writers on the Web by John Hansen

July 15, 2017August 4, 2017 John Hansen 5183 Views 37 Comments Jim Morrison, poets, Riders on the Storm, The Doors, writers

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Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

One With All, My Destined Path

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1937 Views 4 Comments acceptance, destined, life, path, poem, understanding

Destined… We are creatures of continuous growth and potential, and no matter the frustration of irresolution, we can only understand

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

My Soul’s Gratitude

July 15, 2017July 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2117 Views 4 Comments gratitude, hopes, love, pain, poem, will

Ill-found the angst of wanted resolution, for life’s path resists our will, more concerned with reality’s core, and we may

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

Before you arrived or left

July 15, 2017July 17, 2017 liam 2451 Views 1 Comment air, earth, fire, horizon, water

Well I thought I could see you right here and right now but nothing is here in front

Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Step From Grace

July 15, 2017March 24, 2023 Tony DeLorger 2084 Views 6 Comments broken promises, cheating, fall, grace, poem, sex

A Step From Grace … No grace for cheaters… A step from grace, silk and lace so shear to

Free Verse Poetry

The Gumshoe – Pictures of Indecency

July 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 1946 Views 5 Comments cheating, detective, Gumshoe, infidelity

Another day on the job, another long wait Hands deep in the worn pockets of an overcoat Collar turned up,

Free Verse Poetry

Rose in the Snow

July 14, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2700 Views 10 Comments love, poems, poetry, roses, snow

The rose bush, that they had planted, their first year together – had the reddest roses. Now as the first

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

It Feels Good Cheating Death

July 14, 2017July 15, 2017 Clive Williams 2159 Views 4 Comments cheat death, cheating death, death, death cheat

Cheating Death Elevator cables snap and plummets to the floor I was the only survivor to exit the door Massive

Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Walk Alone

July 14, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3387 Views 14 Comments death, death/life, full life, life, living, Loneliness

I Walk Alone Once we are born the only other inevitability is that sometime, somewhere we will slide into death.

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Romantic Poetry

Tis of the Heart

July 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2195 Views 10 Comments beauty, heart, love, meeting, poem, whisky shots

He, a gruff and rugged man, like rasped aged wood, the contours barely discernible beneath the crust, yet under skin

Free Verse Poetry

City Mornings…first breath

July 14, 2017July 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1944 Views 6 Comments City, first breath, morning, poem, traffic, zombies

First Breath… The pitch streets surge, growling motors a blur; a slow awakening morn, forces billowing cloud strata aside, for

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

By The Lake, Exhale

July 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2300 Views 4 Comments beauty, exhale, falling day, poem, reflections, sunset lake

As I exhale the day…. Teased by sporadic gusts, water rippled like gently aging skin, and from its banks, light,

Epistle Rhyming Verse

The Edge of My Abyss

July 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1607 Views 4 Comments abyss, fear, mouse, pain, parents quarreling, poem

Hall in shadowed veil, darkness looming as if sentient, prevails, and one lone mouse scourers the kitchen floor, the light

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry

Because These Things I Must do

July 13, 2017January 1, 2020 liam 1734 Views 7 Comments death, rain, sleep, traffic, wind, window

Things I Must do … Waking up to the sound of wind and rain outside my window, natural elements with

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Embracing Time

July 13, 2017July 14, 2017 Paul Neglia 2325 Views 19 Comments Eighty six thousand four hundred, embrace life, non-refundable, Wasted Time, worth

Embracing Time The world is nothing but some paint A canvas charged of kindling signals Inside the brain they

Essay Poetry Rhyming Verse Travelogue

The Dispossessed

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 John Hansen 3550 Views 8 Comments Australia, dispossessed, ghost towns, homelessness, population crisis

The Dispossessed 21st Century Our 21st Century society is filled with both opportunities and challenges. Great advancements in engineering, communications

Free Verse Poetry

Swinging In Winter

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 Clive Williams 2204 Views 11 Comments Christmas, christmas poem, winter, winter poem

There is just something about the cold and snow which gives me the chills Rolling down short mountains as live