2017 - Page 50 of 63 - The Creative Exiles

Through Love’s Eyes…sublime

March 28, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2389 Views 2 Comments eyes, love poem, silent words, souls, sublime, two as one

Sublime… Intimate, the silent words of love, the poetry of delicate touch and eyes glistening, filled with sonnets, as love

Creative Writing Short Story

Callahan Clan of the Great Smoky Mountains – Short Story

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2736 Views 6 Comments 1775, American Irish, Appalachia, Callahan clan, Irish immigrants, Ulster Irish

Callahan brothers left Ireland in 1775 … Thomas Callahan has been the focus of two short stories of mine here

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Pain is Temporary, the Soul Infinite

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1873 Views 4 Comments loss, love, pain, poem, suffering, temporary

Truth is all that pain deserves to tell its story completely, for muddied waters cloud circumstance, and blame rarely a

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Infinite Scope…burgeoning life

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1703 Views 2 Comments beauty, burgeoning, life, nature, poem, potential

Upon the earth with delicate touch the sun does bless life with such passionate embrace, growth like surging, burgeoning glee,

Epistle Poetry

They, Who Choose to Harm and Soil Truth

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2189 Views 2 Comments damage, delusion, harm, hatred, poem, truth

Causing harm through jealousy… Who are we to be brutalized by scandalous intentions, lies of invention that persecute innocence, when

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Uncategorized

Unrelenting Storms Upon Our Shores

March 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1853 Views 2 Comments change, fears, Fight, poem, storms, Warrior

And still the waves come, surging life and conspirators run to ground, aloof, ambivalent airs in stoic stance, beating hearts

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Irony of Reflection

March 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3305 Views 2 Comments baggage, demons, irony, judgement, poem, reflection

Who cleanses my life to transparency, judges my every thought to win or lose, and by whose authority to peruse

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Expectations in Breath and Life

March 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1795 Views 2 Comments aspirations, breath, dreams, expectation, life, poem

Shall this be an ordinary day, the interplay of life and dreams, and which shall be the focus, when each

Poetry Romantic Poetry

When In Your Arms

March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2706 Views 6 Comments Angels, arms, broken hearts, in your arms, love, poetry

When In Your Arms When in your arms, the world fades away and I’m floating on the clouds above. No

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Love Moves Mountains

March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2192 Views 6 Comments eternal chyme, eternity, find balance, love, mountains, raging sea

Love Moves Mountains Calm your aching heart, for love moves mountains, Put your mind to rest, and find your balance,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Ebb and Flow of Dreams…our movement chosen

March 25, 2017March 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2107 Views 4 Comments aspirations, dreams, movement, poem, possibilities, understanding

Dreams seep into consciousness from destinations unknown, epiphanies shown, and they exacerbate thoughts to render movement, and as the shrewd

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Arise, Sun, Heart and Soul

March 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2476 Views 4 Comments beauty, hope, opportunity, poem, rise, sun

Myriad colors steal the break of day, luminous fractured light all splayed upon a waking blue, and silence guides a

Epistle Poetry

Perceptions of the Burden of Struggle

March 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2197 Views 2 Comments burden, epistle, freedom, learning, perceptions, struggle

Struggle is the calling card of life, for souls with potential to grow and understand, and we may curse the

Fiction Poetry Rhyming Verse

Cold Nights and the Desert

March 25, 2017March 25, 2017 Paul Neglia 3330 Views 13 Comments alone, Dark, desert, PTSD, shadows, war

Tis the soul that is lost in the pillars of sand Tis the ready acumen of dismantling life, where we

Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Manifestation of Contact

March 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1904 Views 4 Comments alien, clouds, Contact, light, manifestation, poem

Upon a grey morn, when even birds ran out of song, the stillness a weight in progression, as ominous brooding

Ode Poetry

In The Time Of Travelers

March 24, 2017 R J Schwartz 2653 Views 3 Comments cartography, explorers, travelers

Ageless yet simultaneously ancient Weathered faces with eyes of stone Rough hands, callused and worn raw The many battles fought from

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Broken Shards of Pottery – Archeological Fantasies

March 24, 2017 R J Schwartz 2104 Views 2 Comments archeology, history, pottery, shard

Ancient shards of pottery Abandoned or hidden in the shifting sands By someone from somewhere For some reason or another

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Light and Our True Potential…choices

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1844 Views 2 Comments choice, darkness, light, poem, potential, thinking

Fundamental choices… Choices…light or darkness In the presence of light no shadow can bare the unexpected, so no matter how

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

In a Blink of Time’s Rendering

March 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2409 Views 2 Comments blame, God's world, poem, rendering, suffering, time

A mere mortal fathoming a God’s world, did question the purpose of suffering: no lesson attached, no purpose of good,

Epistle Poetry

The Panacea for All Ills

March 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2314 Views 2 Comments epistle, fear, potential, remedy, stagnation, transformation

I’m exhausted, because people won’t help themselves, are so stuck to the fears of past, they refuse to venture into

Creative Writing Short Story

Lucky Jack

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 Will Starr 3573 Views 6 Comments

Bob Grace was a contented man as he sipped his sweet coffee and gazed out the window at the last,

Free Verse Poetry

The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Ones

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 John Hansen 4106 Views 14 Comments blind, deaf, dumb, life, politics, society

The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Ones Hear they not the roaring silence That assails their ears? See they

Free Verse Poetry

Nighttime Vigil

March 23, 2017 Rasma Raisters 1902 Views 8 Comments night, nighttime vigil, poems, poetry

The poverty she lives in, has made her old before her time. She pulls up her chair, to the window