Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

Blood Moon Passing

July 29, 2018July 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2253 Views 4 Comments beliefs, blood moon, cosmos, demons/ apocalypse, poem, restlessness

I feel an electricity in the air, a static edge of sharp unrest, as if a shift in consciousness, a

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

A Revelation Still Not Completely Held

July 29, 2018July 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1427 Views 2 Comments acknowledgement, earth and connection, entity, epistle, imbalance, revelation

No thought required, the earth breathes, it simply is, and remains in a complex network of ever-decreasing, ever-increasing manifestations of

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

A Humble Word Smith

July 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1577 Views 3 Comments life;s travail, poem, purpose, share and learn, soul to speak, word smith

I am but a humble word smith, a heart tainted by human ineptitude, but a soul enlivened to speak, and

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

The Perception That Transforms

July 28, 2018July 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1427 Views 2 Comments epistle, joy, natural world, respect, selfless, transforms perspective

Beauty still reaches the heart with effervescence, a sense of wonderment and appreciation, yet soured are the days by ugly

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

In the Dying Embers, Release

July 28, 2018July 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1693 Views 2 Comments clouds, gloaming, night stars, poem, release, sky changes

Clouds decay in a seamless fading sky, wisps so finely scattered high, the sun at its zenith pales the blue

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Hidden in Plain Sight Truth

July 27, 2018July 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2448 Views 2 Comments disaster we created, hidden truth, humanity, natural balance, poem, selfishness

The more I squirm, the more I realize how pointless it is, and the more I accept the inequities of

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

Right and Wrong…for the Record

July 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1425 Views 2 Comments belief/necessity, epistle, justification, morality, narcissism, right and wrong

How we grapple with right, what we feel aligns with our beliefs, and that very equity between the both determines

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Always Been, Always Will Be Honest

July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1624 Views 2 Comments creative, honest, morality, mother taught, poem, values

I’ll testify to no more than a modicum of sin when I were a lad and mischief was in, I

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

The Blame Game, a Misnomer

July 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1671 Views 2 Comments blame, cause & effect, choices/consequence, epistle, pain & learning, we create

No matter the reasons, what we choose in life plays out in our lives as a consequence, cause and effect

Inspirational Poetry Romantic Poetry

The High Stakes of Heartbreak

July 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1738 Views 4 Comments forgiveness, future, heartbreak, high stakes, hurt, poem

Hearts break, mistaken the love through hope’s eyes, and dark the abyss of the shadow of loss, those pillars of

Rhyming Verse Satire

I Confess…

July 26, 2018July 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1988 Views 2 Comments confess, human failings, in pieces, off planet, poem, potential

Confess I do to human failings, besmirched by so many mental ailments, that the course of life is never straight,

Epistle Poetry

Striving to be Something More

July 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1512 Views 2 Comments epistle, Hell on earth, pain self inflicted, reason, something more, striving

The sad truth of pain, is all of it is self-created, response, rejection and blame much of the circumstances of

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

Follow Your Heart, Fear is Just a Shadow Cast

July 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1513 Views 2 Comments change, circumstances, epistle, fear, follow the heart, growth

Transitions of thought need a smooth path, unobstructed by the grasping of a panicked mind, still tethered to the known,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Those Things Once I Knew….the Spell

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1462 Views 2 Comments age, change, needs and values, poem, stages of life, the spell

So long the spell, those sensual notes of complicity, when driven by passion’s flame igniting circumstances and testing relationships, when

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

By the End of This Sweet Ride

July 24, 2018October 18, 2022 Tony DeLorger 2074 Views 2 Comments aspirations, joys & failures, learning soul, life paths, poem, sweet ride

How far have I come, how long my travail, to stand before the shadow of myself, and attest my joys

Inspirational Poetry Romantic Poetry

I Burn for Them…

July 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1561 Views 2 Comments burn, consciousness, memories, past life loves, poem, yearning

I burn for them, each one an echo of exquisite moments, not lost in time but marking its very essence,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Technological Wave

July 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1863 Views 2 Comments epsitle, invasive, nature, spiritual life, technology, wave

Each and every physical manifestation binds us to reality, keeps reality within the expectations of our vision of it, as

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Worlds Apart in Solitude

July 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1761 Views 4 Comments attentive, meditation, peace, poem, solitude, temple bells

The temple bells caressed by breeze, seize the moment, a calming ease of heart’s surrender, lost in a sky of

Essay Memoir

For Over Sixty Years, What I Have to Offer

July 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3147 Views 14 Comments cause and effect, experience, love the paradigm, memoir, Offer, spiritual path

There are many ways to live our lives. We may be pragmatic and ordered, we may live in the moment

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

And Words My Expression

July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1446 Views 2 Comments advantage, burdens, expression, mental adeptness, poem, sensitive

How much do I absorb, how much must I let go, when life proffers an endless purge of all the

Creative Writing Essay

Lying Gets Us Nowhere

July 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2955 Views 4 Comments capable, choice, essay, lying, murder, protection

We are all capable of anything… Circumstances amass as with our panic, when we hastily choose and create more havoc

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Beyond the Miracles Before Me

July 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1538 Views 2 Comments beauty, gloaming, miracles, peace, poem, stars

When the wind blows and in afferent splendor imbues with honeysuckle and rose, when summer’s delicate touch gives credence to

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Is There No-One Listening?

July 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1552 Views 4 Comments education, learning, listening, poem, readers acceptance, substance lost

Though words emanate from my mouth, spinning and thrashing about, where they fall is anyone’s guess, I, aspiring less and