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How Deep My Love

February 6, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2287 Views 2 Comments bliss, countenance, love poem, Motivation, salvation, understanding

Love’s sweet countenance lingers at my door, when last you graced my life, and hollow seems my thoughts, without your

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Upon a Grassy Knoll I Write

February 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2704 Views 2 Comments beauty, clouds, grassy knoll, poem, weave, write

Upon the grassy knoll, a humble heart… I sit upon a grassy knoll, so high, the world so small below,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Witches of the Dark Veil

February 5, 2017February 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2263 Views 2 Comments dark veil, demons, poem, sexuality, upheaval, witches

The Dark Veil… Sour is a witches brethren, followers blind in life’s raw grit, manipulation and service to beliefs, the

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Changes That Can Transform Our World

February 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2167 Views 2 Comments change, darkness, fear, hopeless, poem, possibility

Changes are necessary in learning… When life is bleak, how narrow our sight, light-less rooms void of color, hopeless thoughts

Free Verse Poetry

My Imagination

February 5, 2017 Rasma Raisters 5079 Views 6 Comments imagination, poems, poetic words, poetry

My imagination wants to fly, far above and reach the clouds. My imagination, longs to dream the impossible dream, flying

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Paper Trail – a Poem

February 5, 2017November 25, 2023 John Hansen 2859 Views 10 Comments contracts, legal documents, paper trail, words, writing

The Paper Trail Read these papers, sign your name, Initial every page. We have to keep a paper trail For

Creative Writing Halloween Short Story

The Autumn People (A Ghost Story)

February 4, 2017September 12, 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann 3238 Views 7 Comments apparitions, autumn people, Entities, ghosts, scared, shadows

(For Erik) I had always known there was a realm other than ours. I have felt and seen

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Shadows

February 4, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 2217 Views 8 Comments apparitions, fear, phantasms, shadows, the night

When I was young there was never anything I looked more forward to than camping in the high wilderness of

Epistle Poetry

I Live in Hope…for a better way

February 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1831 Views 3 Comments better way, ego, epistle, hope, politicians, war

Madness rules the world, and we in padded chairs watch with ambivalence the escalation of insanity: the murder, the torture,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Upon a Rocky Path…Renewal

February 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2007 Views 4 Comments fae, love, perception, poem, renewal, sadness

Light fell like a heavy cloak, day but a glimmer of its feasible scope, and step by step a soul

Epistle Poetry

The Destiny of Thought…what drives a life

February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1686 Views 2 Comments choice, destiny, epistle, life, pilot, thought

Each moment of thought a pathway to destinations unknown, circumstances unrealised; and destiny sits agog, for it in reality is

Poetry Rhyming Verse

In Naked Streets, Down Town

February 3, 2017February 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1758 Views 3 Comments homeless, hopeless, life, naked, poem, streets

The streets are naked, stripped of all clothing, all color, raw and bleached of will, eyes peering out of curtain

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Bold My Colors…the who I am

February 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2073 Views 5 Comments bold, colors, intention, love, paradigm, poem

Bold the colors of my essence, yet bland the colors of my being, so often hidden with the fears of

Epistle Poetry

Winners of 2016 Fiction and Poetry on The Creative Exiles

February 3, 2017February 3, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1930 Views 6 Comments fiction winner, poetry winner, Tony DeLorger, Will Starr, winners

We are pleased to announce TCE winners for 2016.

Poetry Romantic Poetry

The Four Courses of Love

February 2, 2017February 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2712 Views 2 Comments ecstasy, four courses, freedom, love, poem, world

An aperitif this touch, this afferent singeing of my soul, burning desire rising like molten sighs, and the entree an

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Forest of My Soul…life in reflection

February 2, 2017February 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2058 Views 2 Comments forest, perfection, poem, profound, reflection, soul

Life in reflection… Reflection…. A glimmer of sky resounds like a silent cacophony, vibrant blues shimmering in reflection, and the

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Love Forlorn…the echoes

February 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1918 Views 4 Comments change, forlorn, gloom, love, poem, yearning

Forlorn…… In the close of day I see your face, indistinct yet so familiar in the light of dusk, like

Creative Writing Song Lyrics

Change of Season Blues

February 1, 2017February 2, 2017 Rasma Raisters 3173 Views 4 Comments change of seasons, songs, the blues

Often the change of seasons leaves me a bit blue. This is my bluesy attempt to express it in song.

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

What Fills the Box of Day

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2329 Views 5 Comments box, day, love, memories, moments, poem

Day folds into a small dark box, filed onto shelves of past’s dim recounting, and what light beheld a heart,

Epistle Poetry

Life, the Experience…to be Lived

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2228 Views 4 Comments empathy, epistle, experience, life, love, survival

Experience Life Unencumbered… Indelibly imprinted on the human mind, the ardent pursuit of protection and survival, suspicion still the doubt

Memoir Novel Excerpt

Harold Be Thy Name…a novel excerpt

February 1, 2017April 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2693 Views 3 Comments kids, nature, Novel excerpt, sixties, wonder, youth

A flashback of Australian childhood, a personal account during Christmas holidays in the early sixties, and an excerpt from

Dystopian Poetry Poetry

The Dystopian in Utopia – Imagining the Unimaginable Future

February 1, 2017October 10, 2025 R J Schwartz 3784 Views 6 Comments dystopia, dystopian, future, technology, utopia

I’d like to preempt this piece with a quick narrative to explain it – first, this piece is complex and

Poetry Rhyming Verse Romantic Poetry

Flower Language for Valentine’s Day

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2448 Views 4 Comments Eternal love, flower language, love, passionate, Rose, secret message

Flower Language for Valentine’s Day Flower