2017 - Page 62 of 63 - The Creative Exiles

In a Troubled Mind

January 11, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2370 Views 2 Comments acceptance, lost, mind, poem, pride, troubled

In a Troubled Mind…where even dreams are lost I walked along the road, unerringly, the dust of my misgivings clouding

I Keep this Light as a Guide

January 11, 2017January 14, 2017 Paul Neglia 4884 Views 4 Comments Angels, darkness, demons, fire, guide, life, light, moon, stars

I Keep This Light as a Guide Brilliant measure; the stars in her eyes A guide to defining the

Free Verse Poetry

Respect Your Elders

January 10, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 8896 Views 6 Comments boss, elders, know better, poem, respect, youth

Elders…a failing body does not mean a failing mind. Elders have experience…listen! How can my failing sight be seen, known

Poetry Rhyming Verse

All Grown Up, Yet Linger Still

January 10, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2182 Views 4 Comments era, intimacy, life, linger, poem, spirituality

Lust settles like dust upon the weary traveler, so far removed from that era of life, when self-gratification comes second

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Flying Blind – Nighttime Airlines

January 10, 2017January 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 2441 Views 9 Comments air travel, nighttime, plane

Twenty six thousand feet, or is it twenty seven thousand I’ve lost track, but it really doesn’t matter anymore Window

Fiction Historical Fiction

Great Smoky Mountains Folk – Thomas Callahan

January 10, 2017September 14, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3053 Views 13 Comments Cherokee, forgiveness, granpa, mountain folk, Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains See Hell Bent For Leather for the first story about the Callahans. ~~ Thomas Callahan was true

Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Keep This Dark as a Memento

January 10, 2017January 14, 2017 Paul Neglia 3655 Views 5 Comments candles, Dark, Echoes, light, memento, oblivion, shade

I Keep This Dark as a Memento Eyes sunken; a window to the soul, a path behind that bone

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Three Wise Men

January 10, 2017January 10, 2017 John Hansen 3051 Views 9 Comments courage, Gandhi, Jesus, three wise men, wisdom, word

The Three Wise Men The fires that burn and scorch my skin, And raging furnace stoked within, The fiends that

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Ineptitude’s Echo…a question of perfection

January 9, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2263 Views 6 Comments aspiring, faults, hope, humanity, ineptitude, poem

Ineptitude is like a gentle breeze, tainted with the smoke of burning flesh, a putrid stench that sours fresh and

Free Verse Poetry

Where Did It Go…this Life?

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1830 Views 6 Comments go, journey, memories, poem, present, time

Where Does Time Go… Relentless this mind to wander, to sift through the sands of past, the joys and what’s

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Needless in the Wake of Love

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2405 Views 4 Comments beauty, conflict, heart, moments, needless, poem

Needless conflict in love… Each nuance tolls like a temple bell, each sensation like a swan skating on a mirrored

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Dawn’s Divine Love

January 9, 2017January 9, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2944 Views 10 Comments boundless, deep burning, divine love, eternityl, heart & soul

Dawn’s Divine Love Dawn’s divine love evokes in me the joy of being with you, For, each night I die

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Deliverance by Our Own Hand

January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1770 Views 2 Comments deliverance, destiny, ignorance, master, poem, self

I wait for deliverance, as if time commends, but what force does ensue if not myself, my own expectations; so

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Artistic Hands, Innate

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2692 Views 2 Comments artistic, expression, innate, life, poem, soul

Innate Talent… Through fingers of delicate touch, hands so dexterous tis magic to the eyes, and a heart stops to

Free Verse Poetry

Collage

January 8, 2017January 25, 2017 Anjana 3471 Views 10 Comments death, farmer, food, hope, table

A collage of situations Somewhere, in an unfortunate corner of the world lying forsaken by nature’s merciful gestures, where

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

One Step From Dreams

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2100 Views 4 Comments creative thought, new perspective, poem, routine, step, time

New step, original thought… Occupied with distraction life flies by, but has an original thought ever pried open a mind,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Vote Please for Your Favorites

January 8, 2017January 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1869 Views 5 Comments favorites, fiction, forums, poem, vote

Vote Please for Your Favorites I am trying something new, hope you like it. Thought it would be nice and

Free Verse Poetry

Having To Face Reality

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2620 Views 10 Comments poems, poetry, reality

Reality can strike, sometimes much too close. You can be feeling, as if you’re living in a dream, then suddenly

Poetry Rhyming Verse

How Beguiling the Sound

January 7, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2075 Views 4 Comments beguiling, guitar, love, poem, romance, sound

A guitar sits upon a stand, a yearning melody imbibed in every grain of wood, and strings still in taught

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Contesting Reality with Ownership

January 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1889 Views 2 Comments connection, contesting, nature, perfection, poem, will

World without end, beauty without dissension, is nature’s way; life and death but cycles within a vast and infinite echo

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

From Ominous Heights

January 7, 2017January 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2527 Views 4 Comments delusion, expectation, fatal, heights, ominous, poem

Expectations rise to unrealistic heights, when hope inspires beyond its plush soft pillow, and soaring into its manifest being, it,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Desire Through The Ages

January 7, 2017January 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2440 Views 6 Comments cavemen, desire, fire, love, marriage, romance

Desire Through The Ages Since the beginning of time man has desired And woman has given pleasure to his

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

I Turned a Stone, just to see…

January 6, 2017January 6, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1900 Views 4 Comments life, peace, stone, storms, turned, understanding

A Stone Turned… I turned a stone, to see which side is smoother, and behold the side that faces sky