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The Confusion of Delusion, a Self-Destructive Malaise

June 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 173 Views 2 Comments alternate reality, comfort, confusion, delusion, poem, suffering

Embrace the truth, for it rules to overcome that part of us that seeks the comfort of delusion, the lies

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A Kindness to a Beast

April 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 225 Views 4 Comments Beast, kindness, nature's mistake, poem, smiling death, suffering

Twisted claw and limbs crumpled, head of beast and face displaced and coupled with a gnarled body barely moving rise

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The Suffering After the Score

January 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 139 Views 0 Comments aftermath, broken soldiers, no help, poem, suffering, war

I traverse this earth, treading upon the shells of broken souls, like the bleached skulls of dead warriors, for the

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The Winds of Change, in Transition

December 10, 2017December 10, 2017 Tony DeLorger 252 Views 3 Comments acceptance, change, epistle, resistance, suffering, transition

Change is a daunting paradigm, to be ready and accepting of the forces that mold our lives by rearranging the

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Removing the Injustice, My Lesson

November 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 269 Views 4 Comments allow, injustice, lessons, narcissists, poem, suffering

Pensive, ever petulant, for the injustice I cannot abide, yet I know it’s my lesson, to allow, to watch with

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No Answer At All

October 28, 2017October 28, 2017 Tony DeLorger 333 Views 4 Comments answer, driven, needs, poem, suffering, wants in life

For the want in life, we struggle for our desires, pedestal them to vastly overrated moments, and then strive as

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Beyond the Suffering

October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 301 Views 2 Comments addictions, beyond dogmas, epistle, new paradigm, security, suffering

Within reach, if only to peel back the shroud of daily life, we would see the intentions, the causation of

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Spirits on the Marsh

May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 315 Views 2 Comments evil, marsh, poem, slaves, spirits, suffering

Lost spirits… Spirits loom on the marsh, as if anchored to their deathly end, cast of colour, deplored and

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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Two – Anger

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 R J Schwartz 458 Views 1 Comment 5 stages of grief, anger, loss, pain, suffering

Anger Deep seeded rage Surrounded by my enemies Taxing me mentally Questioning my identity No solutions or remedies Everyone talking

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Pain is Temporary, the Soul Infinite

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 369 Views 4 Comments loss, love, pain, poem, suffering, temporary

Truth is all that pain deserves to tell its story completely, for muddied waters cloud circumstance, and blame rarely a

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In a Blink of Time’s Rendering

March 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 348 Views 2 Comments blame, God's world, poem, rendering, suffering, time

A mere mortal fathoming a God’s world, did question the purpose of suffering: no lesson attached, no purpose of good,

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WAR…the Gift that Keeps on Giving

October 22, 2016January 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 471 Views 4 Comments Greed, poem, politics, souls, suffering, war

How can I ignore the pleas, thousands of souls begging for release, a fate oncoming, written in time, unavoidable, intended

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Never Will You Be Gone

September 12, 2016September 15, 2016 Tony DeLorger 482 Views 8 Comments comfort, gone, love, memory, poem, suffering

Never will you be gone….Gone, but not forgotten … ever-enduring Never Will You Be Gone…in heart and memory I keep

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Kim…a shimmering light

May 15, 2016June 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 763 Views 6 Comments death, joy, love, pain, suffering, understanding

My shimmering light… Her eyes bloodshot, her head swollen, she peered through frosted Perspex, drops idly running, creating rivulets of

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