EdF, Author at The Creative Exiles

How many loves go missing

April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 EdF 1897 Views 2 Comments forever, love, missing, soul of man

How many loves go missing … Was there ever a time for loves true innocence for man was it ever

There does come a time

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 EdF 2229 Views 2 Comments best advice, comes time, free verse, make call, make the call, right thing

Hurting echo … We cannot simply turn our heads in the other direction without turning our hearts as well whether

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The heart of a writer

April 8, 2017August 22, 2018 EdF 2552 Views 7 Comments exiles, free will, heart, writer

The Creative Exiles All they asked was a fair chance a place in which to enjoy a floor in which

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Perilous hearts

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 EdF 1843 Views 5 Comments gentle souls, lonely souls, peril, perilous hearts, smiles, touch

Perilous hearts There are some among us who learned from birth to forgo the usual reserve they are born with

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Oh bare with me winter

March 20, 2017March 21, 2017 EdF 2485 Views 5 Comments abide, changes, seasons, tracks, winter, wolf

Oh bare with me winter There comes a time when the snow becomes hypnotic and all again so strange as

Poetry Romantic Poetry

The Yearning for Dusk

March 13, 2017March 13, 2017 EdF 6331 Views 3 Comments dusk, memories, midnight moons, mornings, trembling lips, yearning

The Yearning for Dusk T For the fullness of daylight will never do and mornings are only for the young

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Walking Into The Rain

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 EdF 2219 Views 4 Comments cleansing, cure, rain, soul, storms, thunder

Into the Storming Maybe its just because I know there is no one else out here that draws me into the

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A Woman’s Hands

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 EdF 4892 Views 2 Comments hands, imagination, magical, power, soul, woman

A Woman’s Hands Will she ever fully realize the power she holds there she may never know the whys but I

Free Verse Poetry

This Incessant Yearning

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 EdF 2385 Views 4 Comments alone, incessant yearning, peace, serenity, solitude, time

This Incessant Yearning This incessant yearning for man never subsides perhaps it never will I have often wondered is it

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Life of Seclusion

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017 EdF 2102 Views 3 Comments dawn, different exile, nature, poetry, winds

Self Exile Self exile comes at such a cost and who knows just who pays the most no wonder then do these

Free Verse Poetry

When there are no words

January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 EdF 2321 Views 4 Comments

When there are no words The coffee is cooler now than when I started in truth I love it that way

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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

Christmas Free Verse Poetry

Tomato Soup Christmas

December 17, 2016November 15, 2017 EdF 2056 Views 5 Comments Christmas, free verse, holidays, memories, poetry, Tomato soup

Closing the peeling white lead painted cabinet doors two by two she said quietly tomato soup or tomato soup ? half listening

Free Verse Poetry

Hostage of this winter

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 EdF 1738 Views 3 Comments Hostage, inside, isolation, poetic, recluse, serene, soitude, winter, writing

Hostage of This Winter I am grateful for winter and for this heavenly isolation for this monochrome dreamland seemingly so inhospitable to mankind

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The grave tenders

December 13, 2016December 13, 2016 EdF 2155 Views 5 Comments children, death, grave tenders, loss

The Grave Tenders Alluring and hauntingly beautiful she stood against one shaded granite stone and I knew it was certainly her child as

Free Verse Poetry

Return to isolation

December 12, 2016December 12, 2016 EdF 2332 Views 3 Comments alone, family, return, self, solitude, trying

Returned to Solitude I tried I really did but how can one fight for long the very nature of our soul

Free Verse Poetry

Betrayal by birth

December 9, 2016December 9, 2016 EdF 1814 Views 2 Comments betrayal, birth, dying, living, love, survival

Betrayal by Birth He came into this world I saw him curled in his bed the surviving of much happenstance and as

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Moonrise and tides

December 7, 2016December 9, 2016 EdF 2049 Views 4 Comments moonrise

Moonrise and Tides When it either happens too soon for the soul to grasp in all it’s imperfect timing or it

Memoir

Wood Stains

November 29, 2016November 29, 2016 EdF 2488 Views 12 Comments barns, death, dying, Fathers, history, life, sons, tragedy

This old empty barn … True story, 1922 Standing in front of the big doors to this old empty barn, these

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For all that it’s worth

November 9, 2016January 16, 2017 EdF 1594 Views 4 Comments enjoyment, nature, poetry, pond, serene, water

Magic on May Pond At first the water was calm , quiet, smooth and tranquil , the air almost balmy in the

Free Verse Poetry

Memory of Dreams

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 EdF 1868 Views 10 Comments bare shoulders, memories, piano music, poetry, romance, woman

The piano danced quietly at the end of the paintings on her fingertips yet I was enriched by distraction like the

Free Verse Poetry

Return to Rocky Shore

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 EdF 2750 Views 7 Comments Fathers, memories, poetry, rocky shores, seas, stories

Return to Rocky Shore Did we not after all come from the very same rocky shorn and misty shore but not

Free Verse Poetry

Soldiers Nightmare

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 EdF 2166 Views 4 Comments blue and grey, dying boys, Echoes, ghost memories, soldiers nightmare, war

Soldiers Nightmare They will come beneath hallowed soils there lay rings buttons and barrels rusting away and mixed with them granite