Paul Neglia, Author at The Creative Exiles

Voodoo Dolls

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 5741 Views 8 Comments death, pain, puppets, under someone's control, voodoo dolls

Voodoo Dolls…puppets and all… It’s understood the cloths of fate Were cut, addressed and sought to sate. No one believed

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Shoulder

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Paul Neglia 1726 Views 4 Comments advice, friend, friendly ear, Shoulder to lean on, therapeutic

Shoulder… Disruptions, we are filled with them Each one is a mystery to solve Each one doused with sickly venom

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Forlorn Hope

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 Paul Neglia 2380 Views 6 Comments emptiness, Forlorn hope, only soldier, realization, sadness, the void

…a poem on forlorn hope That feeling, was it maddening, like stark-crazed maddening, to realize you were the only soldier

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Another Fish

April 6, 2018April 6, 2018 Paul Neglia 2057 Views 8 Comments blindly loyal, imaginative, Pisces, sensitive

Pisces, Another Fish … Like a penny thrown from the apex of the tower The gravity of my passion grows

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Still Worlds Apart

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Paul Neglia 1880 Views 6 Comments entitlement, hard work, laziness, snowflakes

World … I’ll speak now if speaking is permitted I’ll be specific how to fail at commitment, How to fake

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Don’t be Fooled

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 Paul Neglia 2433 Views 5 Comments don't believe everything, fake prophets, False advertising

Don’t Be Fooled Faith in the process without promise, A novice misstep in righteous province Trust in “the man” is

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Perspective Overdose

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 Paul Neglia 2189 Views 7 Comments addiction, Drugs, Loneliness, overdos, sadness

Perspective Overdose … No one of yet has developed a language or a lexis that confirms my point of view.

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Broken by You

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 2179 Views 6 Comments bad memory, Bad relationship, losing love, pain

Broken by You – Slam Bludgeoned by your verbal truncheon, My soul is shrunken by your dungeons Eruptions from my

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Chess – Like Life??

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Paul Neglia 3290 Views 6 Comments chess, life lessons, strategy, war

Chess – Like Life? You Decide… Tis an honored sport of insurgent warfare, and germane tactics from within the trenches,

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How She Makes Me Feel

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Paul Neglia 3099 Views 6 Comments butterflies, love, trust, warmth

How She Makes Me Feel … Like consuming whole stacks of Oreos Each leaning tower slathered from whole milk

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Garden

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Paul Neglia 2379 Views 4 Comments beauty, peace, rebirth, renewal

New Garden This morning I will dampen all the weeds In hopes to salvage their resplendence Their joy they once

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At a Loss

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Paul Neglia 2823 Views 8 Comments failure, loss for words, passing blame, sadness

Someone’s child … At a loss for a few days now, trying to wrap my head around how this same

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Choosing – The Crossroads

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 2426 Views 4 Comments choosing sides, Epiphany, God, questioning faith, trickery

Choosing – The Crossroads Just when did apostasy consume my soul? In the waning emptiness beside the coals,

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Broken in Silence

February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 Paul Neglia 2525 Views 10 Comments be strong, breakup, hardened, no emotion, sad

Broken in Silence … There is no love in the scrutiny of new strangers No forbearance left in the coldness

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Love is Stunning

February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 Paul Neglia 2560 Views 8 Comments desire, light, love, yearning

Love is Stunning Love is stunning, and for so long it fell apart, Her passions and my cravings had remained

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Forbidden

February 9, 2018February 9, 2018 Paul Neglia 3559 Views 8 Comments adult, erotic, passion, romantic

Forbidden … Between the silk and satin sheets With hedonistic anxious beats Amongst the bed posts made of pine

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She Remained

February 8, 2018February 23, 2018 Paul Neglia 2572 Views 11 Comments conquered the demons, love everlasting, sees past my faults

She Remained … She remained. Like a yet poured wine, Full bodied and unmasked Always sulking in narratives sitting with

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The One

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 Paul Neglia 2581 Views 10 Comments anxiety, desire, love, passion, relationship

Sweetest healer … The first anomaly I’ve had was you the sweetest healer of broken hearts Chaste like new born

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Escape

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 Paul Neglia 2885 Views 8 Comments escape, perserverance, starvation, tragedy, war

Escape from Nazis … III. Escape For months we had studied to expose a weak spot rehearsing in code with

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Prisoners of War

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Paul Neglia 3355 Views 7 Comments hate, perserverance, prison, torture, war

Prisoners of War II. P.O.W. When mortars discharged, I could see all the morsels, The tendrils that swiftly divided

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Attrition

January 24, 2018January 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 2405 Views 8 Comments death, horrors, life, sanity, war

Attrition I. Battlefield Abject silence was the tormenting anxiety, as stillness ripples its way through the ravaged square. A cold

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The Power of the Word

January 11, 2018January 12, 2018 Paul Neglia 2472 Views 10 Comments impact of words, meaning of words, power of words, words

Powerful is the word … Total immersion, like an herbal tea bag in a piping hot cup of water, the

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The Storyteller

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 Paul Neglia 2432 Views 6 Comments imagination, influence, passing the torch, storytelling, wisdom

The Storyteller … An exquisite wizard, prolific and gifted expressing natural aptitudes, many unscripted. Where thoughts conglomerate, the mind amalgamates,