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Moonlight and Roses

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Rasma Raisters 3198 Views 4 Comments cemetery, moonlight, poems, poetry, roses, sweet music

Moonlight and Roses … The rusting churchyard gate creaked open, as shadows played with moon rays, somewhere from years ago,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Who is Our True Savior

April 4, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1855 Views 3 Comments inner voice, loyal, poem, savior, soul, wise

Who gives breadth to my vision, gives resin to my bow, and who gives depth to my incisions, when removing

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Jungle Came to Me

April 4, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2021 Views 2 Comments candlelight, dancing, imagination, jungle, poem, voices

By candlelight shadows dance upon the wall, like moving through a forest tall, where light filters through the heavens, shards

Free Verse Poetry

Enchanted Woodland Sanctuary

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1932 Views 4 Comments balance, enchanted woodland, harmony, peace, Phyllis Doyle, sanctuary

Enchanted Woodland Sanctuary … Within my soul is an enchanted woodland sanctuary, Where all manner of nature’s living beings abide

Poetry Satire

Rocks Have Little to Offer

April 3, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1911 Views 2 Comments beauty, oblivious, reality, rocks, satire, stone

Those who are able to see, respond, those who are blind, oblivious, like trying to teach a rock to think,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

This and All I Know

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1471 Views 2 Comments beauty, harmony, know, new day, poem, simplicity

Day greets with a smile, clouds like white brows raised in expectation, and breeze so gentle the birds sigh,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Where This Day Started

April 3, 2018April 3, 2018 Donald Loudon 1637 Views 6 Comments beginning, birthing born, this day, two horizons

Moving souls in eternity … On the edge of two horizons, where ancient colors peak light and dark wrestle together,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Autism – A Story of a Son and Dad

April 3, 2018 R J Schwartz 3736 Views 2 Comments Autism, Autism awareness, Autism speaks, RJ Schwartz

There was a time, it’s been awhile When all I wished for was a smile My baby boy, my pride

Free Verse Poetry

A Need to Vision Clear

April 3, 2018April 3, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1546 Views 2 Comments life, mundane physical, poem, pursuits, seeking truth, vision

Thoughts like floating mist dampened by the obligations of life, hamper all that comes to the forefront of freedom, thoughts

Poetry Rhyming Verse

For Their Love Only, the Sea

April 2, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1561 Views 2 Comments drunk, life at sea, only love, poem, sailors, tales

Gnarled oak and ale soaked planks, attest the drunken slurs of many, in nightly revelry and tales of sea, echoed

Ode Poetry

Cherry Blossoms

April 2, 2018April 3, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2730 Views 2 Comments cherry blossoms, ephemeral cloud, lovely flower, ode, Phyllis Doyle, romantic poets

Cherry Blossoms … O’ for the beauty of cherry blossoms, Bursting forth in an ephemeral cloud, Sweet thou art as

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Scrying

April 2, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2433 Views 4 Comments crystal ball, falling, past/future, poem, scrying, visions

The glass sits before me with reflective muse, as if deciding if earnest or a ruse, and soon the razor

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Love Like a Rose

April 2, 2018April 2, 2018 Rasma Raisters 2422 Views 6 Comments hearts, love, poems, poetry

Sweet perfume, like a summer breeze … The rose, the queen of flowers, has thorns that sharply prick. Love though

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

My Eyesight is Abandoning Me

April 2, 2018 R J Schwartz 1318 Views 5 Comments eye, eyesight, LASIK, nearsighted, RJ Schwartz

My eyesight is abandoning me Each year getting more weary Lens growing thicker and thicker Bright flashes and tricky flickers

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

How We Want to Be, in Life

April 2, 2018April 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1722 Views 4 Comments acceptance of highs and lows, happiness, poem, positive/negative, to be in life, want

The effervescence of life springs most in those who are attune to it, those who see not its supposed limits,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Ode to Bob Dylan

April 2, 2018 John Hansen 2274 Views 10 Comments Beat Generation, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Robert Zimmerman, Woodie Guthrie

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Ode to Bob Dylan Born as Robert Zimmerman Bob Dylan better known, His talent as

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Romantic Poetry

Love, the Savior of Us All

April 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1942 Views 2 Comments familiarity, love, love poem, meant, savior, soul mate

Her touch was more than electric, as if time itself halted, and swirling thoughts of infinite being flooded mind and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

So Many Questions

April 1, 2018September 5, 2019 Tony DeLorger 2004 Views 3 Comments accepting, life's secrets, meaning, poem, purpose, questions

So many questions we hold within, with no obvious answers in sight, and the pale disconcerting of life’s secrets, like

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Understanding the Flow, My Yearning to Write

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1915 Views 4 Comments creative expression, honing art, poem, the flow, understanding, within

I join the flow and opened, write, and words like birds given flight, appear, thoughts hatched and nurtured create streams

Poetry Rhyming Verse Satire

A Duality Within Which I’m Not Comfortable

April 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1876 Views 2 Comments duality, fear, poem, Stranger, time-bomb, two personalities

Just who are you? In that heart beats a stranger, as if imprisoned, a reluctant foe, yet outside is pleasantry

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

When a Master Speaks

March 31, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1711 Views 2 Comments epiphanies, listening, master, open heart, poem, readiness

In joy the master speaks, in dull monotones the student hears, and until the dark night of petulance turns, jealousy

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

We Can Undo What We Create

March 31, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1992 Views 2 Comments challenges in life, circumstances, create, epistle, our perceptions, undo

No matter how treacherous life, no matter how dire our perceived circumstance, we placed ourselves there, and we can get

Poetry Rhyming Verse

River Of Tears

March 31, 2018 Kurt James 3174 Views 10 Comments death, kurt james, kurt james author, life lesson, Regrets, River of tears, time. lessons

We all have regrets in life which feed the river of tears. When someone passes away that you have had