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Fate

January 6, 2017January 14, 2017 Paul Neglia 3225 Views 12 Comments abides, auguries, fate, mind, time

How auguries go, and fate consigns you In beauty

The Sting of Broken Souls

January 5, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1796 Views 2 Comments broken soul, no love, pain, poem, slain by words, sting

In anguish set, of vanquished self forlorn, prostrate in lowly visions of dark affront, I lay, slain by words, from

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Faerie Cottages – How to Build New Ones

January 5, 2017January 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2139 Views 2 Comments cottages, faerie houses, faeries, garden faeries, village

Faerie Cottages Tiny squealing, angry voices I heard, Came

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Minefields and man

January 5, 2017January 16, 2017 EdF 2050 Views 3 Comments emotions, love, man, minefield, poem, relations

Minefield and Man In the aura of a relationships a man is but a man his emotions his alone how

Haiku Poetry

Bygone Memories – Haiku

January 4, 2017January 14, 2017 Nithya Venkat 4481 Views 8 Comments haiku poetry, life, memories, poems

Bygone Memories As we grow old we tend to go back in time, flashes of the past come alive

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Storms Shall Not Abate…and Love Shall Always Rise

January 4, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2372 Views 2 Comments abate, detach, love, poem, propaganda, storms

The tempest pounds upon our door, locked, hoping for reprieve, an overlooking, and live we do on the edge of

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

But a Leaf, in Mother’s Nurture

January 4, 2017January 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2267 Views 2 Comments compassionate giving, joy, life cycle, nurture, poem, purpose

Nurture, in the cycle of life… A leaf in flight, released from life its purpose done, sees the world for

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Not Part of Life Our Choice

January 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1691 Views 2 Comments apathy, life, lost, not part, poem, restore

Not Part of Life…a sin World without hope, hope without heart, heart without possibility, and possibility without start; all that

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

If I Were Free from Humanity

January 4, 2017January 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1805 Views 2 Comments all life, harmony, hatred, humanity, poem, struggle

If I were cloud in diaphanous state, I’d climb to the edge of the world, where light and darkness interplay,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Sated Life in Antiquity

January 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1879 Views 4 Comments antiquity, at peace, love, poem, refection, shallow waters

Antiquity, at peace… I seek shallow waters, still and imbued with light, the sky refection all I see, the gloaming

Epistle Poetry

Our Gift to Life…the open door

January 3, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2113 Views 6 Comments epistle, gift, giving, humanity, purpose, transform

What gift we bring to humanity, is rarely thought, our obsession with self the expectation of what life puts before

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Accepting Who We Are, in Truth…delusion’s bleak attire

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1844 Views 4 Comments bleak, choice, delusions, poem, potential, truth

Delusion’s bleak attire… Flights of fancy save our minds, from realities we prefer blind, yet illusions last only as long

Free Verse Poetry

Thoughts about new year

January 3, 2017January 25, 2017 Anjana 3321 Views 14 Comments dreams, hope, ideals, lies, new year, tomorrows, truths

As a new year begins As another new year begins spreading before us its pristine, blank pages, that await to

Free Verse Poetry

Love Hurts Deeply

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2524 Views 6 Comments broken hearts, love, poems, poetry

Love can be, the utmost feeling – send you reeling. Brings to mind, flowers bursting into bloom, warm and kissed

Poetry Rhyming Verse

To Wish Upon a Moon

January 3, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2060 Views 6 Comments beauty, dreams, end day, moon, poem, wish

The interplay of light as orange infuses the faded sky, is exhilarating, heralding nights slow drawing blanket, studded jewels on

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Memories…a balance gained

January 2, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1991 Views 2 Comments lessons, memories, mistakes, pain & loss, poem, wisdom

Memory serves me well, yet why do halcyon days pale before the struggle and memories of loss that so haunt

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Questioning Mornings

January 2, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1892 Views 4 Comments chains, coffee, new day, poem, questioning, traffic

The sun pulls itself up on a reluctant sky, slumber lingering in the fading night, and alarms ring to herald

Free Verse Poetry

Cold, Colder, Even Colder

January 2, 2017January 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 2541 Views 5 Comments Branchy, cold, winter

A cold wind comes creeping along the ridgeline Listen as it whistles through the ice covered branchy trees A powerful

Epistle Poetry

Without Respect for Life

January 1, 2017January 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1897 Views 2 Comments environment, epistle, Greed, judgement, life, respect

Life abounds in every space in the universe; there is no void, only within our minds, for not accepting reality,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Memory’s Twilight

January 1, 2017January 1, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2579 Views 14 Comments love, memory, memory's twilight, reflection, souls, twilight

Memory’s Twilight Memory’s twilight has come upon me in quiet reflection, As another year comes to an end they

Poetry Rhyming Verse

For So Many, a Plight…the other side

January 1, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1887 Views 5 Comments acknowledge, darkness, dreams, light, plight, poem

Perilous flights of fancy pervade dreams like a dark mist, as thoughts to the brink of understanding, writhe within reason

Epistle Poetry

Terrorists are Many…and don’t necessarily wave flags

January 1, 2017January 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1836 Views 8 Comments belief, group, poem, terrorists, violence, zealots

Smooth, the tethers of belief, a smile augmented, intentions unseen, and embraced by those of like minded adherence, ready to

Fiction Historical Fiction

Hell Bent for Leather

January 1, 2017September 14, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3324 Views 12 Comments cabin, family & love, front porch, granpa, hell bent, short story

Hell Bent for Leather “If that boy don’t smarten up quick he be hell bent for leather,” Thomas muttered.