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The Last Hope in a Final Countdown

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Tony DeLorger 505 Views 4 Comments arrogance, final countdown, imbalance, natural order, response, suffering

The imbalance of the natural order on earth is a well-worn subject, but as time goes by, a reality that

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Hanging On…the pain of loss

February 18, 2019 Tony DeLorger 621 Views 11 Comments Hanging on, hope, love, pain of loss, suffering, time

The greatest pain we ever experience is the loss of love or our loved one. The pain is excruciating and

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The Confusion of Delusion, a Self-Destructive Malaise

June 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 526 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 584 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 528 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 651 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 647 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 692 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 636 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 723 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, 2017October 2, 2020 R J Schwartz 1360 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 702 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 735 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 852 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 906 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 1225 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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