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Sometimes We Forget

January 19, 2019January 20, 2019 Kurt James 308 Views 4 Comments Chasing Dreams, Colorado Storyteller, kurt james, living life, memories, seeing past

Sometimes we forget how we became the person we are. We forget the little things that have formed what is

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Curse this mind of discontent

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 EdF 90 Views 7 Comments balance, beauty, change, discontent, dreams, memories, Mindful, purpose

Curse this mind of discontent … I am often haunted by the questioning mind this

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She Haunts Me

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Paul Neglia 135 Views 16 Comments despair, ghosts, love, memories, pain

Memories haunt me … I remember being swayed by the ocean, Reliving all the sights and sounds The water lapping

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Loneliness of falling snow

December 10, 2018December 15, 2018 EdF 138 Views 3 Comments falling snow, lonliness, memories, never alone, snow, storms

Loneliness of falling snow … At first there is but dark silence baited for endearing sound in hours deep in

Books Poetry

Poetry and Reflections of a Wandering Man – Random Thoughts

November 10, 2018November 10, 2018 Kurt James 752 Views 4 Comments kurt james, kurt james author, memories, poetry, poetry and reflections of a wandering man, random thoughts

Kurt James also known as The Colorado Storyteller is the master of western adventure of the Rocky Mountains. Here is

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Now That You’re Gone

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018 Rasma Raisters 177 Views 2 Comments love, memories, poems, poetry, remembering, stars

Even though it’s been so long, you are the one I’ll never forget, you were there when times were tough

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Times of Your Life

September 27, 2018September 28, 2018 Rasma Raisters 134 Views 2 Comments dreams, memories, poems, poetry, times of your life

Can you imagine the times of your life from the long-ago yesterdays? When the days were mellow, just like the

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When Love Was Fair

September 22, 2018September 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 170 Views 4 Comments fair, joy, love, memories, poetry, romance

As poets, we tend to wear our hearts upon our sleeves, and that, in particular, is me, unabashedly. In going

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What Would Sylvia Say

September 15, 2018September 15, 2018 Vincent Moore 183 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

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Bottling Up Time

September 14, 2018September 14, 2018 Rasma Raisters 200 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

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When Love, the Center of Life, Fades

September 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 136 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

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I Burn for Them…

July 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 134 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 306 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 1149 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

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So Many Skins, So Many Lives

July 2, 2018July 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 131 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

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The Sorrow of Faded Love

June 30, 2018June 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 250 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 237 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 253 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

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Memories in Orientation

June 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 137 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 345 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 147 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 142 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

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Memories Like Driftwood

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 138 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

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