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Household Packing Not My Favorite Thing

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 35 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

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Save these wild mustangs

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 EdF 29 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 36 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

Learning to Love Again

March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Rasma Raisters 123 Views 4 Comments kisses, love, memories, poems, poetry

Learn to Love Again … 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 127 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

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Candle Light Flickers Deep in the Night

March 9, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 138 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 201 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.

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

In Lives and Dream

February 3, 2018February 2, 2018 Tony DeLorger 66 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

Free Verse Poetry

From the Pages of my Scrapbook…

January 19, 2018February 23, 2018 Anjana 164 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

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

We Are Where We Should Be, Always

January 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 97 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 359 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

Christmas Creative Writing Short Story

Winter Love Remembered

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 387 Views 2 Comments Christmas, first snowfall, memories, remembered, snowman, winter love

Winter Love Remembered Gail anxiously watched out the window for the snow to start falling. The bus she was on

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When Day Fades to Night

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 Rasma Raisters 322 Views 6 Comments friends, lovers, memories, night, phantoms, poetry

When day fades to night – my imagination takes flight. Phantom horses ride over the skies, with riders that have

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Chasing Shadows – A Silent and Tragic Memory

November 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 146 Views 3 Comments accident, memories, RJ Schwartz, second sight, shadows

Chasing Shadows The perfect recollection Of the moment The one etched in time, Written in stone, Carved in

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Soul Connections, in the Vast Cycles of Life

November 13, 2017November 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 211 Views 4 Comments connections, epistle, knowledge, love, memories, soul family

The soul, the very essence of us, is but a pearl, yet to be discovered, and each life and experience

Free Verse Poetry

Ghostly Horses in the Sky

November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 Rasma Raisters 326 Views 8 Comments dreams, ghostly horses, memories, the moon, the night, thunderstorms

Ghostly Horses …

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Ten Years After – The Conclusion of the Class Reunion Dilemma

October 9, 2017 R J Schwartz 305 Views 4 Comments class reunion, first kiss, memories, romance

She smiled, flirtatiously stalling while mentally calculating Again and again, running through the lists of faces and names Yet the

Creative Writing Memoir

Brooklyn Dreams

September 16, 2017 Rasma Raisters 317 Views 2 Comments brooklyn, dreams, memories

In a corner of Brooklyn, by the bay and the pier, born and raised in Bay Ridge. Manhattan skyscrapers as

Free Verse Poetry

It’s Over, Let It Go

September 1, 2017September 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 205 Views 2 Comments go, love lost, memories, new dawn, pain, poem

Just let it go… The musk a dull reminder of past, imbued yet stalled, for what it once meant, and

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A Wake Up Call…Life in Better Ways

August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Tony DeLorger 293 Views 4 Comments Forgive, hurt, letting go, memories, poem, wake

Upon the eternal sands of shore, I lay prostrate, stilled of heart, and water washes over me, as the past

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Romantic Poetry

When Love Was Fair

August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 231 Views 2 Comments bliss, fair, love, memories, poem, timeless

Fair in love… Such sweet surprise, what you in mind derive from my subtle glance, my raw romance, this feeling

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Mabel…her shallow connection

July 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 339 Views 5 Comments connection, memories, pilgrimage, poem, shallow, without him

She walks with one foot dragging, twisted, her aged back a little hunched, to the left, a soulful face but

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That Magical Time

July 24, 2017August 4, 2017 Rasma Raisters 465 Views 8 Comments flowers, magical time, memories, poems, poetry, rainbows, song birds

What do we really remember? What do we really know? Are the voices that call us really voices from the

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