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The Lingering of Pain

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1642 Views 4 Comments forgiveness, Haunting, pain, past circumstances, struggle, the lingering

Truly Letting Go It is easy to understand that pain and past circumstances have a negative effect on our present

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Forgiveness, Despite the Pain

August 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2032 Views 4 Comments bitter contention, family, forgiveness, lies and betrayal, loss, poem

Were it not for an artful forgiveness, a knowing that drove a necessity home, circumstances would have glued, and contention

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Those Cold Dark Streets

August 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 4207 Views 6 Comments forgiveness, memories of love, poem, Regrets, release, streets

Nevertheless my heart still beats, regardless of the pain and betrayal that echoes long in the silence of my deserted

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The Scars are just Pain Healed

August 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2025 Views 4 Comments forgiveness, jealousy, love, pain of loss, poem, scars

What pain cannot scar the soul’s flesh, leave remnants of regret, times passed in struggle of being, ill-timed circumstances prohibit

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Where Truth Has Always Been

July 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1342 Views 2 Comments forgiveness, freedom, inner temple, poem, secrets held, truth

The temple of my inner self is quenched for all that in hope is felt, and sustained I am by

Inspirational Poetry Romantic Poetry

The High Stakes of Heartbreak

July 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1582 Views 4 Comments forgiveness, future, heartbreak, high stakes, hurt, poem

Hearts break, mistaken the love through hope’s eyes, and dark the abyss of the shadow of loss, those pillars of

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Buried Heart…Our Understanding

May 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1521 Views 2 Comments buried hearts, criminals, epistle, forgiveness, lack of love, understanding

In all humanity there is a heart, perhaps betrayed, buried under dire circumstances and sometimes even turned in vengeful rage,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Deeper Than the Deepest Love

February 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1724 Views 10 Comments deepest, epistle, forgiveness, love's many forms, thinking, way of life

Love’s tenderness can melt a heart and inspire the flesh, yet love’s selfless depth can do so much more, enriching

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

In Quiet Repose, the Knowing

February 2, 2018February 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2026 Views 2 Comments clarity, diaphanous cloud, expression, forgiveness, knowing, poem

Adrift like a diaphanous cloud, a wisp of white pristine silence, skating across the eternal blue, gently burgeoning in slow

Free Verse Poetry Romantic Poetry

A Melody Of Love…..

January 17, 2018January 23, 2018 Anjana 3153 Views 8 Comments compassion, emotions, forgiveness, love, night, passion

A MELODY OF LOVE…… Beguiling, the mystic beauty of this night her youthful frame interlaced with stillness, with the

Epistle Poetry

The Other Side of Christmas…a day of sadness

December 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2200 Views 4 Comments alone, disconnection, epistle, forgiveness, poverty, sadness

So many minds, so many thoughts surround Christmas, not just in a religious sense, but the connection or disconnection of

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The Keys are not Set in Stone

December 18, 2017August 14, 2018 Paul Neglia 1717 Views 6 Comments forgiveness, learning, love

Sometimes I see you in the stars When the world seems so bleak, Where copious thoughts rove and jar, And

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A Gift…

November 22, 2017November 25, 2017 Paul Neglia 3058 Views 11 Comments being grateful, empathy, forgiveness, live right, second chance

A gift… We shall blossom like untold bards Call it whatever you want, a gift from God, Or even a

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Cut Loose But Whole

November 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1601 Views 2 Comments family gone, forgiveness, loose, pinishement, poem, shunned

Keep me in the fold, for I have lived apart yet yearning from the start to be normal, complicit in

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Down But Not Out…being Overwhelmed

November 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2658 Views 2 Comments dark souls, disharmony, forgiveness, happiness, overwhelmed, poem

Tis not blame, that helps, no revenge or rendered response can remedy the imbalance, this is life in the wake

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The Undulating Game, Contention and Life

October 29, 2017October 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1755 Views 0 Comments balance, conflict, contention, forgiveness, hasty response, poem

Languishing in the exposure, maudlin for the darkness I have worn, sorrowful for the responses I accepted and regretful for

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In Love I Find Release

October 29, 2017October 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1666 Views 2 Comments blame, forgiveness, negative people, poem, release, unhappiness

In nurture do I sleep, free from all the negatives reaped, to use against those of opposition, those whose meek

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Lessons of Forgiveness

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1569 Views 4 Comments being true, forgiveness, judgement, kindness, malice, poem

I am trapped in a world of malice, my kindred souls and I, and it seems the price of kindness,

Creative Writing Essay

A Perception of Human Misery

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3914 Views 4 Comments essay, forgiveness, human drama, judgement, misery, observer

The Sources of Human Misery… Why do we become so confused, so embroiled in human drama and the emotional undulations

Fiction Flash Fiction

Painful Memories Still Linger

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2461 Views 10 Comments both hurt, deeply hurt, forgiveness, friendship loss, not healed, painful memories

Painful Memories Lynette woke up with tears on her cheeks. She grabbed a tissue and wiped the tears away.

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A Task Master Harsh

June 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1699 Views 4 Comments blame, forgiveness, harsh, pain, poem, task master

Harsh, to myself… Crazy, this bludgeoning of mind, this all pervading cloud of blame that astounds me in its ensuing,

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Accepting Love – Embracing its Countenance

May 5, 2017 Melissa Hougard 1891 Views 8 Comments accepting, childhood demons, forgiveness, love, memories, struggle

Accepting Love… That I might accept love, embrace its countenance, without reservation to mark my final days before the greeting

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I Forgive You Dad

January 26, 2017May 23, 2020 Kurt James 3249 Views 10 Comments dad, drinking, father, forgiveness, love, son

I forgive you Dad – A little history, a lot of misery. My Dad was an intelligent, hard working man

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