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Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Wish I Were, But I Am

August 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 51 Views 4 Comments belonging, death, perspectives, poem, understanding eternity, wish

I wish I were a leaf, swept up in the warm embrace of a breeze, and from there what I

Creative Writing Short Story

Dreamscape of brother angel

August 6, 2018August 7, 2018 EdF 43 Views 2 Comments Angels, brothers, death, dreamscape, loss, nightmares

Dreamscape of brother angel … I slept fitfully at first and yet in the deep throws of night a dream

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Death Of The Sea

April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 EdF 83 Views 4 Comments death, depths, forgiven, life, listen, return, saving, the sea

The sea will tell us its tale … We came from the depths of the sea my son one day

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Voodoo Dolls

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 148 Views 8 Comments death, pain, puppets, under someone's control, voodoo dolls

Voodoo Dolls…puppets and all… It’s understood the cloths of fate Were cut, addressed and sought to sate. No one believed

Poetry Rhyming Verse

River Of Tears

March 31, 2018 Kurt James 908 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

Free Verse Poetry

Life and Death

March 16, 2018March 16, 2018 John Hansen 251 Views 8 Comments birth, death, dying, experiences, life, living

Life and Death Let’s talk about life and death and everything in between First, we are born, naked and helpless.

Poetry Rhyming Verse

In Davy Jones’ Locker

February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 157 Views 2 Comments aftermath, Davy Jones, death, locker, poem, storm/shipwreck

The waves crash relentlessly upon the shore, jagged rocky outcrops, barnacles and green hair tossed in white foamy forays, thundering,

Free Verse Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Final Song

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 Nathan Bernardo 152 Views 3 Comments death, embark, freedom, nothing more, song, soul

A Final Song I embark like I have so many times before. I spark the brain cell but there’s only

Free Verse Poetry

Thundering Hoofs and Four Horsemen

January 27, 2018January 27, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 224 Views 6 Comments death, famine, four horsemen, pestilence, thundering hoofs, war

Thundering Hoofs … Hear the thundering hoofs and the four horsemen, Mounted on steeds of white, red, black, and pale,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Attrition

January 24, 2018January 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 232 Views 8 Comments death, horrors, life, sanity, war

Attrition I. Battlefield Abject silence was the tormenting anxiety, as stillness ripples its way through the ravaged square. A cold

Poetry Rhyming Verse

An escape of the soldiers kind

December 28, 2017August 14, 2018 EdF 243 Views 5 Comments bloodied soldiers, death, loved ones, pity, Soldiers death, wrath

Escape of the soldiers kind Words reach silently from the bloodied soldier his lips forming thoughts of death his dreams

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Invest in Life, Each Day May Be Our Last

December 18, 2017 Tony DeLorger 227 Views 2 Comments death, epistle, investing in life, last, seeing future, tomorrow

But one moment from death, ever teetering over the abyss, life is no assurance, no certainty, as we travail our

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Fear Not Death and Embrace Life

December 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 272 Views 4 Comments death, experience, immortal, life, poem, uninhibited

Death is our shadow, it follows us endlessly in life, until we cast no shadow at all and become the

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Following the Cheering Masses

November 22, 2017November 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 190 Views 3 Comments death, following, Generals, masses, poem, politicians

Eloquent phrases to enlist support, doused in ridicule to denounce recourse, tried and true within persuasion’s bounds, threats carefully clothed

Free Verse Poetry

Lament for the Young

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 Paul Neglia 322 Views 6 Comments death, love, sadness, too young

For those who have lost something or someone too young. As the sun grew atop me and eventually ensconced my soul, within

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

In Keeping with Life’s Plan

October 24, 2017 Tony DeLorger 230 Views 2 Comments beauty, death, meaning, poem, Rose, we the same

The rose falls, petals fluttering like butterfly escape, and bruised this delicate velvet bloom, so forlorn to assume an endless

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Master of Fear, the Soulless Steer our Course

August 21, 2017 Tony DeLorger 349 Views 4 Comments control, death, madness, masters of fear, poem, soulless

Gnarled will emerges, torn scars of iterative past, bleeding eyes from defeats last as echoes, the screaming knell of death,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Heart Beyond Knowing

August 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 323 Views 4 Comments death, enlightenment, journey, knowing, poem, secrets

Tis what I want, the flow of life in plain sight, no haze of delusion shall diminish my sight, and

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

My Ghostly Visit…My Saving Grace

August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 Tony DeLorger 434 Views 6 Comments death, eternity, ghostly visit, life, poem, saving

My first born child died at four months, after many operations and suffering she endured with such courage and resolve.

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Accident

August 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 400 Views 4 Comments above clouds, accident, death, Heaven, poem, reason

High, higher than a mind can fly, and still I can’t remember why I sit upon this pedestal; breaching cloud

Fiction Flash Fiction

A Stranger Cometh

August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 R J Schwartz 766 Views 7 Comments death, eyes, Stranger

Almost in unison, all eyes turned toward the swinging saloon doors. The loud creaking acting as a warning to some,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Twas in the Heath

July 26, 2017July 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 347 Views 4 Comments death, denied, heath, heaven's gate, poem, two lovers

Twas in the heath, the dreary scrub atop an escarpment breach, where two lovers lie, entwined their souls and bodies

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Meaningless Tears – My Father’s Funeral

July 24, 2017 R J Schwartz 399 Views 5 Comments death, father, funeral, tears

I cried… Tears visible on my cheeks Or so I imagined, afterwards My attention was focused Stiff upper lip, back

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