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Silently in the Night

July 21, 2016July 21, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2256 Views 8 Comments imagination, ponder, reflections

Silently the night settles in and the world becomes still. Without fanfare, on soft cat-like paws, the night arrived and

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Last Few Moments

July 20, 2016September 10, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2771 Views 4 Comments flight, Heaven, life, love, poem, release

Last few moments … Diaphanous veils in gentle flight, caressed by warm and afferent breeze, upon the skin a pure

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Battle Red

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2303 Views 2 Comments battle, death, egos, poem, pointless, waste

All along the ramparts eyes fixed upon a still distance, they await enemy lines approaching for that final assault; and

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What Lay Beneath

July 19, 2016September 27, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2001 Views 4 Comments beneath, extremes, flow, life, omniscience, poem

Beneath The tempest may thunder its way to attention, yet the aftermath is strewn with peaceful sighs, as life in

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The Precedent

July 17, 2016July 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2777 Views 6 Comments Bend, change, law, poem, precedent, truth

Once set, a precedent haunts reality with an iron fist, for we mere mortals can only know one step at

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The Spirit Knows All

July 16, 2016July 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2252 Views 6 Comments heart, life, poem, sanctity, spirit, summit

The trail narrowed to a line drawn in scrub, a sandy meandering water-less river, the incline sharper and more

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A Thousand Farewells Across the Sea

July 16, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2102 Views 8 Comments love, poems, poetry, sailors, the sea

As the sea glittered bright in the late afternoon, the sun splashed the sky with orange light. Soon like a

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The Front

July 15, 2016July 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2318 Views 5 Comments chaos, deluge, moving in, poem, sealed, strom front

The front moves in, a

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Culloden

July 14, 2016October 4, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2379 Views 7 Comments battle, Culloden, death, English, Jacobites, poem

Culloden What calls from the silent field, the echo of death once bled to ground, the chases and

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Discovery

July 14, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2160 Views 4 Comments belief, discovery, life, poem, resistance, understanding

Discovery is the building blocks of

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Tell Me True

July 13, 2016October 4, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2104 Views 2 Comments good, hatred, love, poem, security, survival

Hatred … Tell me, tell me

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Death to Oppression

July 12, 2016October 4, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3374 Views 4 Comments England, EU, freedom, oppression, poem, saved

Death to Oppression … Resistant

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Thoughts Too Many

July 12, 2016October 4, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2901 Views 4 Comments chaos, kindness, love, peace, poem, thoughts

Thoughts Too Many … Way too

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Let It Be…the potential in life

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2293 Views 0 Comments heart, kindness, love, poem, possibility, potential

Let sparks fly, vivid colors fill

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Eternally Held

July 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1665 Views 0 Comments eternal, held, plan, poem, potential, truth

What holds a heart to

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I’ve Always Had a Fantasy

July 11, 2016September 26, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2247 Views 12 Comments barbecues, cowboys, fantasies, horses, texas

I’ve always had a fantasy … I’ve always had a fantasy, of waltzing across

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Beyond the Self

July 10, 2016September 26, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2592 Views 6 Comments commitment, expression, life, love, poem, self

Beyond the Self … Love without

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Diana

July 10, 2016July 10, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2956 Views 10 Comments caring, Diana, difference, humility, poem, tribute

Her sweet countenance befitted her benevolence, her sheer humility in all her undertakings, and no matter the circumstance, she arose

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The Spoon

July 10, 2016July 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2476 Views 2 Comments containment, hope, peace, poem, purpose, spoon

The spoon sits upon a cold steel pile,

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Nature’s Guide

July 8, 2016July 8, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1922 Views 4 Comments arrogance, guide, nature, plan, poem, teacher

The world is a fabric of

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Woven

July 7, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1864 Views 2 Comments art, beauty, Bedouin, poem, wool, woven

Woven Woven by deft hands, old weathered hands, that know this dance, this purpose that lingers in the blood, generations

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Within the Folds

July 6, 2016September 28, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1853 Views 2 Comments eternity, folds, intention, life, omniscient, poem

Within the Folds Within the folds of a timeless collapsing of space, all is reduced to a single point,

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The hunter and the hunted.

July 5, 2016September 11, 2016 Abhimanyu Gaur 4713 Views 8 Comments cruel life, free verse, hunted, hunter, poem, struggle

The hunter and the hunted … The hunter set his trap with a