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…this day…

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 Paul Neglia 673 Views 3 Comments coping, funeral, loss, pain, sadness

I cannot sleep, for sleep is the sibling of death A young Queensbridge poet stated Just the facts, when the

Captain Elliott Spencer: by Jeff Andreis

October 25, 2022October 27, 2022 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1224 Views 3 Comments Elliott Spencer, formless, Jeff Andreis, nameless, pain, Pinhead

Captain Elliot Spencer who became Pinhead I am a wayward traveler of time and space I was once human

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Friend Zone: Center Stage

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 Paul Neglia 1069 Views 6 Comments Friend zone, heartbreak, pain, sorrow, unrequited love

Friend Zone: Center Stage… Always the same games, with the same types, inner circles were close knit Only room left

Free Verse Poetry

Losing Hope

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 Misbah Sheikh 2428 Views 14 Comments heartache, hope, Misbah Sheikh, pain, poem, sorrow

Losing Hope! It’s not always easy to be happy. Sometimes it’s hard. At times you have to say it

Free Verse Poetry

Drowning In A Sea Of Tears

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Misbah Sheikh 2084 Views 6 Comments cry, drowning, Misbah Sheikh, pain, River of tears, sea

Drowning In A Sea Of Tears Drowning in a sea of tears is a poem about a person who feels

Free Verse Poetry

I Don’t Want to Lose Patience

March 15, 2022March 24, 2022 Misbah Sheikh 1001 Views 14 Comments dark night, heart, hope, Misbah Sheikh, pain, patience

Patience Allows Us to Live Life With Tranquility Patience is a valuable skill to practice to live a happy and

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Nothing Spells Masochist Like my Pride, Don’t Worry My Heart Can Take It

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Paul Neglia 1433 Views 4 Comments Masochist, pain, Paul Neglia, pleasure, punishment glutton, self-inflicting

Nothing spells masochist like my pride … I staggered miles in barefoot to pray, Gird my soul from earth-shattering

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Add i c t

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Paul Neglia 1396 Views 9 Comments addiction, alcohol, pain, Paul Neglia, Pills, sad

Add i c t … Add i c t He’s been more than a little ill and missed you more

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

Experience – 4 Aspects

October 8, 2021October 14, 2021 Ann Carr 1565 Views 13 Comments Ann Carr, life experience, memory's canvas, pain, poems, possibilities

Life Faces, places, emotions flicker on memory’s canvas, one by one, names/credits roll up and off my mind’s screen, gone

Free Verse Poetry

Empty Monolith

June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 Paul Neglia 2504 Views 4 Comments Broken man, empty building, empty monolith, failed business, pain, sadness

Broken down business, empty monolith, or broken man??!? Empty Monolith Cavernous walls placated inner hostility yet outward atrocity swelled beneath

Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Wasp in the Mulch

December 29, 2019December 30, 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann 1704 Views 5 Comments healing, hurt, Mulch, pain, sting, Wasp

A Wasp in the Mulch I. Through winter snow I remember the spring, a wasp who wanted nothing stood his

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Wagon Crashed and Burned

September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Paul Neglia 1450 Views 15 Comments Alcoholiism, anger, coping, impulses, pain, sadness

The Wagon Crashed and Burned … Alcoholism hits home to so many families. This is so personal for me,

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Human Projection

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1806 Views 6 Comments fears, free will, human projection, ineptitude, pain, protection

Human Projection Projections like fans of water, splayed out in fervent increments of release, assume the mantle of disbelief, the

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Lingering of Pain

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1589 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

She Haunts Me

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Paul Neglia 1754 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

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Space Between

December 6, 2018December 7, 2018 Paul Neglia 1766 Views 3 Comments heartbreak, love, pain, Space between, understanding

The Space Between … The space between where tears fall On cheeks inspired by arctic sadness In twisted games we

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Cycles of Learning

November 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1438 Views 2 Comments circumstance, cycles, learning, pain, recognition, responsibility

Less than expected, the rolling pain invested, and that ache of realisation, that without purpose I endure. Suffered at the

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Uncategorized

Purpose…Our Reason on Earth

October 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1692 Views 4 Comments acceptance, essay, learning, life, pain, poetry

Purpose ‘The road is long, not always straight forward, and what seems certainty can evaporate, but what is certain is

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Pain and Heartbreak

October 26, 2018October 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 4356 Views 7 Comments heartbreak, pain

Pain and Heartbreak Pain is cold, especially in these frames tonight Numb and frozen my soul is crawling My heart

Free Verse Poetry

My Mask of Madness

September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 Vincent Moore 1618 Views 6 Comments madness, Mask, pain, poetry, prison, Vincent Moore

Dungeons so deep below … My Mask of Madness By the dark of night I’m taken over water to dungeons

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Facing Ourselves, Facing the Darkness

July 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1485 Views 4 Comments darkness, lowest ebb, ourselves, overcoming, pain, poem

As we approach are our darkest moments, and as our minds disallow the light, we shrink to an assemblage of

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

When Pain Subsides…

June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1478 Views 3 Comments by our hand, choice, epistle, pain, understanding, wrongs

Expectant, the trials and tribulations of life, yet unexpected the extent of suffering we instill in our own lives, by

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Voodoo Dolls

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 5327 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

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