The Creative Exiles

Wishing Upon Too Many Stars

February 13, 2017 R J Schwartz 1971 Views 2 Comments adulthood, charms, good luck, magic, wish

Upon a falling star did my wishing For rewards quite materialistic and certainly self-serving Caring but for me, and mine, and

Creative Writing Short Story

Song Within My Soul – Tally’s Song

February 13, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2705 Views 9 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Tally’s Song Within My Soul Author’s note: This story is continued from Safe Home With You – Tally’s Song and is

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Waking of New Day

February 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1993 Views 4 Comments life, new day, poem, potential, rising sun, waking

Waking life… The mist lingered, a frosted window pane to morning’s breath, and life in exquisite silence, attested this delicate

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Through Beauty’s Eyes…transcending

February 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2892 Views 4 Comments beauty, creative mind, divine, life, poem, transcending

Beauty is a perception to be learned, not a gift just given, but a way of living, a way of

Creative Writing Short Story

Safe Home With You – Tally’s Song

February 12, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2945 Views 6 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Safe Home With You – Tally’s Song Author’s Note: This story is continued from First Home – Tally’s Song

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Echoes of My Kin…life carried on

February 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2141 Views 2 Comments a part, Echoes, generations, humanity, kin, poem

The complex lives that our forebears endured, are the making of who we are, like echoes in a vast open

Creative Writing Short Story

First Home – Tally’s Song

February 11, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3072 Views 5 Comments desert, folk hero, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story, southwest

First Home – Tally’s Song Author’s Note: The story is continued from Jessie Snow – Tally’s Song Jessie awoke

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Lessons from a Special Soul

February 11, 2017February 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1998 Views 3 Comments lessons, love, poem, soul, struggle, understanding

Kim was my first born child, a beautiful soul far beyond my understanding at the time. A freak of nature

Poetry Rhyming Verse

My Dog – Tom Tom

February 11, 2017May 13, 2018 Kurt James 3966 Views 10 Comments alcoholism, childhood demons, growing up, life's memories, My Dog

My dog Tom Tom – Growing up for everyone has its peaks and valleys, tough times, and good times. For

Creative Writing Short Story

Jessie Snow – Tally’s Song

February 11, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2790 Views 7 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Jessie Snow – Tally’s Song Author’s Note: This story is continued from ‘Tally’s Song’. At the age of fourteen,

Haiku Poetry

Childhood Memories – Haiku

February 11, 2017February 11, 2017 Nithya Venkat 13386 Views 4 Comments Childhood, childhood memories, haiku poetry, memories, playing

Wonderful days playing with my friends … Childhood memories bring a smile on my face and fill my heart

Creative Writing Short Story

Tally’s Song

February 11, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3200 Views 8 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Tally’s Song Tally Gunther had been on the road since he was fifteen. He left home one night when he

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Deluded Souls of Malice…their lies

February 11, 2017February 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1753 Views 2 Comments belief, circumstance, damage, lies, malice, poem

Lies…the mud-slinging The power of lies… Rumors, hearsay and lies, spread like any ripple in a pond, ever outward into

Creative Writing Memoir

My Mother’s Life…love and tragedy

February 10, 2017February 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2389 Views 4 Comments cancer, emotions, memoir, mother, only child, tragedy

For the sake of brevity, I have penned these memories without time scale. My mother died when she was 64

Creative Writing Short Story

The Radio

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 Will Starr 3711 Views 9 Comments crystal radio, ham radio, short story, the radio, the war, Will Starr

A few lazy snowflakes drifted by his long wire antenna, stretching from the garage peak to his bedroom window, as

Free Verse Poetry

Children of the Lightning Gods

February 10, 2017 R J Schwartz 2162 Views 2 Comments electrical components, electricity, lightning, poem, poetry

The children of the lightning gods have their secrets revealed Invisibility wearing the cloak of a physical phenomenon The great

Creative Writing Memoir

My Greatest Valentine

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2402 Views 6 Comments greatest valentine, poems, poetry

My Daddy My greatest Valentine, as with any girl I know, that was my daddy – the hero of my

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Howling Night Winds

February 9, 2017August 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2334 Views 4 Comments heavenly home, howling, lost souls, night winds, phantom beasts, restless souls

Howling Night Winds These howling night winds sound like phantom beasts, Far and wide in the country side they roam.

Epistle Poetry

Quell the Anger…its just not worth it

February 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2640 Views 3 Comments anger, compassion, epistle, frustration, quell, understanding

Quell the rage, and be kind… The world is filled with anger, venting souls of actions far from consciousness, reacting

Epistle Poetry

Temptation…a post-mortem

February 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2004 Views 5 Comments consequence, epistle, losers game, pain, temptation, wrong

Temptation finds a weakened mind, that point where any movement will suffice, any step away from what’s been is implored,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Dangers, Before the Wake of Day

February 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1618 Views 2 Comments dangers, death, fear, hunting, night, poem

Dangers, when beast is on the hunt… Day twisted into bleak night, clouds brooding, portending dark laments, and shadows held

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Aokigahara

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 Paul Neglia 4614 Views 12 Comments Aokigahara, bones, breeze, caves, hung, macabre, ropes, sea of trees, sound, suicide, suicide forest, twilight, twisted

Aokigahara In nature’s cradle slowly drowning Upon the moss they wait for breeze In front and east, a snowy mountain, And

Epistle Poetry

The Endless Journey…never still, never finished

February 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1857 Views 2 Comments belief, epistle, journey, knowing, life, truth

The more I learn the less I know, the more I know the less I believe, as my perceptions are

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