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A Gnawing, Uncertain Future

November 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2104 Views 3 Comments burden, crisis, future, poem, uncertain, world

Halcyon days, like confetti in a gale, can’t quite reach my thoughts, and what’s left is the struggle of now,

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The Delusion of Honesty

November 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1600 Views 2 Comments child & adult, delusion, ego, honesty, placation, poem

Children speak the truth in their heart, for they have not yet learned the duplicitous face of lies, when ploys

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Please Let Go, I Am Weary

November 18, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1899 Views 4 Comments Bitter, blame, failing love, let go, poem, weary

Tis not my own words soured by complicity, more your words delivered with such bitterness, I cannot fathom this wrath,

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The Whispers in Venice

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2262 Views 4 Comments Echoes, history, poem, stones, Venice, Whispers

Venice’s Bridge of Sighs…the walk to a violent end Footsteps echo softly, those that took this path before, their steps

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Wondering in the Cold

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2246 Views 4 Comments ice and snow, love, spring, the cold, winter

How cold and cruel it seemed, Looked out upon

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Pregnant Possibility

November 17, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1689 Views 2 Comments moment, poem, possibility, pregnant, silence, thoughts

I praise the silence of the moment, when thoughts cease and being resounds like a distant temple bell, for within

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Confessions from a Photo Session

November 15, 2016March 2, 2017 R J Schwartz 2223 Views 3 Comments model, photo, photo shoot, pictures

A camera flash, and then another Bodies move to strike a pose Hold your smile throughout the day Turn

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Death on a Cold Winter Day

November 15, 2016 R J Schwartz 2600 Views 5 Comments bullet, death, hit, murder, winter

Death on a cold winter day Swirling winds carry the news A body lain on hardened ground Plummeting temperatures Nightfall

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The Question Mark of No Reply

November 14, 2016November 14, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1737 Views 2 Comments day, infinite, poem, rest, stars, sunset

The last shards of light splayed out like a fan on the horizon, titillating the clouds with golden edges, and

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Leaves of Autumn

November 14, 2016January 25, 2017 Anjana 1830 Views 8 Comments autumn leaves, season, transition, tree, wind

Autumn Leaves As if they are the dispersed specks of a laughter when the tree branches get tickled by

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Before You Slip Away

November 12, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2135 Views 7 Comments death, love, pain, poem, slip, worth

Before you slip into the darkness of your mind, please tell me that you truly loved me, back then, when

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The Short Career of a Serial Killer

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2410 Views 12 Comments lunch, noon whistle, poems, poetry, serial killers

This poem came about with the

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Worth the Pain

November 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2120 Views 6 Comments choice, clarity, delusion, lies, pain, worth

Clarity begets honesty, for it is hard to dismiss truth once seen, yet many do and prefer the safe embrace

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Her world of words

November 11, 2016January 25, 2017 Anjana 3096 Views 12 Comments delicate rhymes, finest pearls, words, world, worldly worth

World of words She stays a captive in her own world, adjacent to a sea of myriad words, where

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Privileges

November 10, 2016November 29, 2016 Abhimanyu Gaur 2365 Views 8 Comments comfort, free verse, poem, poetry, privileges, struggles

Privileges He can sleep without An empty belly.

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Tangled in memories

November 9, 2016January 25, 2017 Anjana 2468 Views 12 Comments broken heart, lost love, memories, night, shadow, tears

Tangled in memories In the melancholy of the night, under the taunting moonlight, memories of you come gliding effortlessly through

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Needing Salvation

November 9, 2016November 9, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1959 Views 2 Comments balances, fate, ploys, poem, puppets, salvation

Seeking Salvation from Tyranny… I watch the play of human ploys, the shifts of favor and balances, what’s set in

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Border Wall, A Call To Action

November 8, 2016 R J Schwartz 1975 Views 3 Comments America, boder wall, illegal immigration, make america great again, open borders

If you build it, they will come That’s always been the rule of thumb But what if it’s a border

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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

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Perceptions Endless

November 6, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2277 Views 4 Comments controlling, distracted, perceptions, poem, reality, truth & delusion

Reality is a mirror maze of reflections and delusions, and it would take smashing just about every mirror to find

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Nostalgia

November 6, 2016January 25, 2017 Anjana 2639 Views 12 Comments beauty, monsoon rain, nature

Raindrops The last beam of twilight dwindles darkening the long corridors,

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The Pure Evil of Violence

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1721 Views 4 Comments heinous crime, life sentence, poem, rape, torture, violence

Why must we read of such sickening violence, such unthinkable acts of cruelty and violation? Because the world is filled

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The Phantom Lover

November 5, 2016 Rasma Raisters 1951 Views 6 Comments gardens, love, moonlight, phantom lovers, poems, poetry

How many times had Lilly not stood, at the garden gate of the biggest mansion in town. She often wandered