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Get Lost in Your Own Reflection

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 R J Schwartz 1652 Views 2 Comments getting lost, inspirational poetry, reflection, reflective poetry

Get Lost in Your Own Reflection Seek the mirror that hangs in the hall Focus on the center and forget

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Just One More Step

July 1, 2019July 5, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1667 Views 4 Comments answers within, fear, illusions, reflection, step, unknown

Addressing some questions of human perception… Just One More Step The periphery of consciousness like a dark immutable line is

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry

Clouds, Myself in Rendering

October 21, 2018October 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1706 Views 4 Comments cloud, healing, inside, myself, poetry, reflection

As clouds hover above, stilted by a breeze relenting, its calm malaise in time’s surrendering, gives cause for a well

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Pool

October 13, 2018October 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2096 Views 3 Comments eternal stars, gloaming light, night, pool, reflection, space

A pool amid ancient stones, echoes softly in the gloaming light, and stillness buys some extra time, before day turns

Poetry Sonnet

Petrarch Sonnet – For I Have Loved You

October 1, 2018October 2, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2439 Views 10 Comments eternity, friend, life, loved you, Phyllis Doyle, reflection

I Have Loved You When I reflect how my life is going then I find within me more that is

Free Verse Poetry

Reflection of Myself

August 31, 2018September 1, 2018 Vincent Moore 3203 Views 6 Comments fear, mirror, poetry, reflection, soul, Vincent Moore

Reflection of Myself … Is only a reflection of myself and my stubborn pride that looks back at me

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Seeds to Sew

July 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1924 Views 4 Comments connection to nature, consciousness, empathy, poem, reflection, seeds

When the wind turned, so did the day, so did life in disarray, and I wonder if so attuned is

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Suddenly I Am Alone

April 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1462 Views 2 Comments ally fear, alone, escaping myself, poem, reflection, understanding

I run, gasping for breath, heart pounding, every muscle under stress, eyes blurred in frantic dismay, not knowing which direction

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Blessing

March 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2073 Views 2 Comments beauty, blessing, ethereal gold, new day, poem, reflection

Ripples through the water, gleaning light upon the crests in rings of ethereal gold, gliding outwardly until the shore does

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

In Reflection, The Potential We Hold

December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2032 Views 2 Comments honesty, poem, reflection, secrets withheld, self-acceptance, truth

Reflection is an art of glimpsing the whole, the other side less recognized, and life’s secrets are afforded in reflection,

Free Verse Poetry

Wasn’t Going To Write

November 17, 2017November 17, 2017 Ivan Carswell 1621 Views 2 Comments consequence, delusion, good vibes, grew wise, reflection, write

Wasn’t going to write … Wasn’t going to write tonight – wasn’t ready to dare the good vibes surviving eclectic

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Reflection

April 20, 2017January 1, 2019 Abhimanyu Gaur 2318 Views 8 Comments free verse, mirror, poetry, reflection

Dark Twin … The mirror is a liar because it only reveals the face. What about the marks on her

Free Verse Poetry

The Image In The Shattered Mirror

April 17, 2017February 22, 2024 R J Schwartz 2400 Views 4 Comments broken mirror, lost, reflection, regret

Losing myself in these slower motions Where my third person only observes My first person simmers in conflict And my

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Irony of Reflection

March 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3126 Views 2 Comments baggage, demons, irony, judgement, poem, reflection

Who cleanses my life to transparency, judges my every thought to win or lose, and by whose authority to peruse

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Forest of My Soul…life in reflection

February 2, 2017February 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1868 Views 2 Comments forest, perfection, poem, profound, reflection, soul

Life in reflection… Reflection…. A glimmer of sky resounds like a silent cacophony, vibrant blues shimmering in reflection, and the

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Memory’s Twilight

January 1, 2017January 1, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2426 Views 14 Comments love, memory, memory's twilight, reflection, souls, twilight

Memory’s Twilight Memory’s twilight has come upon me in quiet reflection, As another year comes to an end they

Poetry Romantic Poetry

As the moonbeams waver

December 30, 2016January 23, 2018 Anjana 2743 Views 10 Comments lake, love, Moonbeams, reflection, tapestry

As the moonbeams waver As the moonbeams softly waver on the tranquil waters of our love’s lake, illuminating the shiny

Free Verse Poetry

I Am a Reflection

May 2, 2016October 18, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2092 Views 2 Comments heart, purpose, reflection, soul, truth

I Am a Reflection Avowed of

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Expression

April 21, 2016September 29, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1842 Views 2 Comments creation, creativity, expression, love, reflection

Expression Creature comforts find pleasured rest, yet what gives life direction is expression, life shared, the outward flow