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What Would Sylvia Say

September 15, 2018September 15, 2018 Vincent Moore 101 Views 10 Comments days, memories, poetry, Vincent Moore, visions

A Day Goes By I know it’s boring but I have to share it anyways and wonder what would

Free Verse Poetry

Bottling Up Time

September 14, 2018September 14, 2018 Rasma Raisters 91 Views 6 Comments memories, poems, poetry, time

Bottling Up Time … It would be wonderful – to bottle up precious moments. To let them out when our

Rhyming Verse Romantic Poetry

When Love, the Center of Life, Fades

September 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 76 Views 4 Comments center of life, goodbye, love fades, memories, poem, sorrow

She averts her eyes to sympathize, perhaps not to see the pain, and he, in glaring self-recrimination, suffers the damnation of

Inspirational Poetry Romantic Poetry

I Burn for Them…

July 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 86 Views 2 Comments burn, consciousness, memories, past life loves, poem, yearning

I burn for them, each one an echo of exquisite moments, not lost in time but marking its very essence,

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Tempest of Illusion

July 16, 2018July 18, 2018 Vincent Moore 235 Views 14 Comments illusion, lost, love, memories, sorrow, tempest

melt and mold me into a summer soul … I return to this site, being drawn to comment and read

Memoir Poetry

Old Cowboy Hat

July 14, 2018July 20, 2018 Kurt James 906 Views 12 Comments Colorado, cowboy hat, friendship, kurt james, kurt james author, memories, old cowboy hat, Rocky Mountains, The Colorado Storyteller

Old Cowboy Hat Shuffling amongst some old dusty boxes I found a box of memory gold, Damn, your old hat

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

So Many Skins, So Many Lives

July 2, 2018July 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 80 Views 0 Comments cognizant, many lives, many skins, memories, poem, sensitive

Like a skin I have not worn, a life I have not known, I walk in the shadows of an

Rhyming Verse Romantic Poetry

The Sorrow of Faded Love

June 30, 2018June 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 94 Views 0 Comments darkness, faded love, memories, poem, sorrow, time

A wisp of hair, a downward glance, a pensive still romancing thought, alone and left to own resorts, a mind

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His Summer Dream

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018 Rasma Raisters 187 Views 8 Comments butterflies, love, memories, poems, poetry, summer dream

Like a sweet summer song, a memory from long ago, she came to him – in the summertime. He remembered

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Of Days Gone By

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Rasma Raisters 174 Views 5 Comments danced, days gone, dreams, laughed, lived, memories

Days Gone by … We were so very young, in a time of great change, our hearts were pure and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Memories in Orientation

June 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 98 Views 2 Comments gifts of learning, memories, orientation, past and present, poem, wisdom

Halcyon days like lingering touch, invite our minds to revisit much of our past, to make last the dreams in

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The Illusion of Time

May 3, 2018 Tony DeLorger 170 Views 2 Comments answers/questions, epistle, illusion, living in the present, memories, time

In time all things pass, the joy and pain of past but a memory, a lingering perception of being, and

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Household Packing Not My Favorite Thing

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 102 Views 4 Comments apartment, household, memories, moving, packing, sad

Household Packing … Household packing, not my favorite thing, New owners raised the rent by 300 dollars, Been here by

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Save these wild mustangs

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 EdF 96 Views 2 Comments Dayton Hyde, memories, mustangs, regal, saving horses, wilderness

Save these wild mustangs … Pryor Mountain Wild Mustangs So thus we come to live out the end of our

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Memories Like Driftwood

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 89 Views 2 Comments dreams, Echoes, memories, past/present/future, poem, reality

Memories like driftwood upon a sea, flow in and out of consciousness, and attached we may be to their often

Free Verse Poetry

Learn to Love Again

March 27, 2018September 8, 2018 Rasma Raisters 239 Views 4 Comments kisses, love, memories, poems, poetry

Let new love inside … Here I stand with a heart full of love, there you sit denying me. Sure

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Images in My Mind

March 24, 2018 Rasma Raisters 213 Views 7 Comments Childhood, friends, images, memories, poems, poetry, summertime

Images so many, flashing through my memory, rainbow colors – things that used to be. Looking through the images, now

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Candle Light Flickers Deep in the Night

March 9, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 267 Views 6 Comments candle light, Eternal love, memories, next life, Phyllis Doyle, poetry

Candle light Flickers … Candle light flickers deep in the dark night, Illuminating sorrow on her face, Skin like translucent

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The Whistling Wind

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Rasma Raisters 281 Views 6 Comments melodies, memories, poems, poetry, rivers, the wind, tunes

Whistling Wind … Sweet whistling, like the sound, when an organ plays, games with the whistling wind, on windy days.

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In Lives and Dream

February 3, 2018February 2, 2018 Tony DeLorger 118 Views 2 Comments circumstances mirror, consciousness, intersecting lives, lives, memories, poem

Cycles befall my conscious mind, each one like satin in a blind field of dreams, and I know they ring

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From the Pages of my Scrapbook…

January 19, 2018February 23, 2018 Anjana 228 Views 6 Comments classroom, friends, memories, rainbow, ribbons, scrapbook, swing, uniform

FROM THE PAGES OF MY SCRAPBOOK……. In a neglected, dusty corner of my mind an old scrapbook lies among

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We Are Where We Should Be, Always

January 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 157 Views 2 Comments acceptance, always, memories, paradigm of love, poem, soul learning

Within me the dark past attested, the triumphs arrested before the ego takes flight, and memory strikes hard in knowing,

Christmas Creative Writing Memoir

Christmas Morning Meditation

December 23, 2017December 23, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 554 Views 5 Comments alone, Christmas morning, cinnamon rolls, memories, parents, siblings

Christmas Morning Meditation I grew up with six siblings which was at times a mad house. It was Christmas morning

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