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I’ve Done Quite a Lot of That…

February 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2308 Views 10 Comments insight, knowing, learning, poem, quiet, still mind

How true the quiet heart, unmoved by strife or contention, rather, in acceptance and responding kindly to provocation, because a

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My Prideful Ways, a Long and Painful Decay

February 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1623 Views 2 Comments challenes, learning, opposition, poem, prideful, stubborn will

Through turbulence I must wade, that rushing water flow like outstretched claws grasping, each tenuous stride taxing my resolve, when

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Wisdom Takes Time and a Patient Heart

February 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1853 Views 2 Comments balance and understanding, delusions, earned in time, epistle, over-zealous, wisdom

Petulant one becomes within the endless forays of those who think they know, yet whose limited views are sewn by

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The Turn of Days Below

February 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1598 Views 2 Comments below, consequences, decisions, insignificant, learning, poem

I watch the turning of days, as if time faded to insignificance, and those colored sheets so rich in hue,

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Time Has Her Own Way

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 Rasma Raisters 1692 Views 8 Comments love, poems, poetry, time

She is always running along … She was a beauty, at certain times of the day, in the early morning,

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Blue Star Souls Who Live Love

February 14, 2018February 15, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2097 Views 8 Comments blue star, live love, peace, Phyllis Doyle, soul memories, souls

Blue Star Souls … So very long ago and so far away, Whereupon the bright blue star, We loved and

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That Aching Heart

February 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3367 Views 2 Comments aching, heart, impropriety, lost love, poem, regret

Tempest past and present tepid, hearts flawed and at surface fractured, while silence dons its broad fedora and souls in

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‘Allow’…a powerful and transformative word

February 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1762 Views 2 Comments allow, circumstance, epistle, judgement, kindness, transformative

We cannot but judge life in all its aspects, as it is our way to try to understand it, and

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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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Coffee House of Dreams

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1832 Views 2 Comments Base Camp, coffee house, dreams, lifestyle, regulars, sharing

Coffee is just a catalyst to conversation, and

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Flawed

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018 Anjana 2547 Views 9 Comments failure, flawed, humane, imperfection, opportunity

Flawed… Flawed, will be the inevitable verdict if I am held before my own heart’s stringent council, always falling short

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Letting Go is Never Easy

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1860 Views 2 Comments allow, easy, epistle, freedom, letting go, miss

It is with some regret I let the past free, to echo in the shadow of my days and settle

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The Night Whispers

February 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2341 Views 0 Comments assimilate, meet our brothers, poem, share knowledge, Whispers, wonder

Night whispers the arcane thoughts of life a gaze at moons and stars and endless sky arrays of wonder, as

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Love’s Wilted Rose

February 12, 2018February 23, 2018 Anjana 3557 Views 6 Comments ache, blossom, heart, love, Rose, vacuum, wilted rose

Love’s wilted rose Love’s Wilted Rose… How precious was the beguiling rose bud that once bloomed in our love’s enchanted

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Voices From Afar

February 12, 2018 Rasma Raisters 1567 Views 6 Comments poems, poetry, poets, voices

A man who was a poet, sat on the bank of a river and thought how he was an outcast.

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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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Contention Never Wins

February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1645 Views 2 Comments betterment, challenging ourselves, contention, higher mind, poem, winning

It is within me to oblige, surrender to a higher mind, for contention has taught me the ache of

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Brain Tease – Brain Freeze

February 11, 2018 R J Schwartz 2148 Views 1 Comment brain freeze, Brain teasers, magic, RJ Schwartz

Brain Tease Riddles, Cyphers Cryptograms Trick Box Paradox Padlock Optical Illusions Magic Acts River Crossings Arithmetic Matchsticks Letter jumbles Crossword

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The Soul Mirrors Truth

February 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2113 Views 4 Comments epistle, love, manipulators/givers, mirrors, soul, truth

What mirrors the soul cannot be ignored, the reality of who people are cannot be dressed in deceit forever, as

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From Realms Unknown to Acceptance

February 11, 2018February 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2309 Views 2 Comments beliefs, change, expectations, learning and growing, poem, realms

Dispatched to realms unknown, thoughts mirror echoes of beliefs all sewn within the minds vast play, adjusting the periphery, the

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The Purpose of Our Dreams

February 10, 2018 R J Schwartz 2667 Views 3 Comments dream analysis, dreams, possibilities, RJ Schwartz

Languishing in a state of effortless drowsiness With sleep and awareness engaged in a dance Neither giving quarter and yet

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Time Moves So Effortlessly

February 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1686 Views 4 Comments effortlessly, life, poem, time, unexpected, unnoticed

Time moves so effortlessly, often unnoticed, yet marked by the arc of moon, a rising sun or the clouds that

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Love Beneath the Moon and Stars

February 10, 2018February 23, 2018 John Hansen 15468 Views 15 Comments galaxies, love, milky way, moon, stars

Stare up at the Moon and stars, Which one’s Venus, which one’s Mars? See the wonders of the sky, Made