The Honor in a Creative Life
Inspired by Paul Neglia’s work ‘Blanked Over’ There is honor in being creative, and as it is a reflection of
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Author: Tony DeLorger
Suckled from the Bosom of the Goddess of War
Into the fray, the smoky stained air of battle’s frenzied throng, where blood sprays and groans of pain belong, as
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Who Comes in the Name of Malice
Who comes to thieve my mind, take piece by piece in kind and flood it with lies, and all the
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The Illusion of Time
In time all things pass, the joy and pain of past but a memory, a lingering perception of being, and
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Caverns Deep…
Caverns deep, light-less shadows swirling like an evening mist descending, where lost thoughts find their place, erased from a conscious
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Homeless on the Streets of LA
Ambivalent glares fall short of care, as superficial eyes see not, nor sympathize with reality, as judge some must in
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The Storm in Your Eyes
Rain, like drum rolls on tin, multiply in din within the storm in your eyes, and clouds above like dark
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Where in Sunshine it Rains
When can wrong become right in a mind of reason, coerced by a form of blindness called avarice, when justification
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Bullying and Youth Suicide…for Dolly
I call the deep abyss, to qualify my tryst with dark intentions, so clouding my dimensions, agreeable considerations they seem
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A Life Not Meant for This
Broken rhymes, words absolved, a candle-lit rose wilting within these grey walls, where cold steel and thoughts unspoken try to
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Facing Change Head On
Broken under the weight, we purge ourselves, turn tears into rivers and wallow in our overwhelming circumstances, yet it is
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Our Fate is In Our Hands
Tethered to a lifeboat, for sure I cannot drown, but there’s a leak in this my lifeboat, a slow and
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The Winning We So Want
Implements of mind render doubt an unkind spectacle, a manacle of impediment, to failure’s deep sediment, at the bottom of
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Suddenly I Am Alone
I run, gasping for breath, heart pounding, every muscle under stress, eyes blurred in frantic dismay, not knowing which direction
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Emotion’s Epiphany
Too choked to speak, too flooded with emotion to reap any epiphany other than being in the moment, as so
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So Prone to Breaking
Questions like clouds hang low over my mountains, misting the clarity of view, and too, I see green yearning pines
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A Perspective Bite
Ruptured colors bleed in profuse rainbows, skies just a canvas for the carnage of light inspired, and suns and moons
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So Much Capacity to Respond
How starkly reality sometimes creates an affront, that can take our breath away, be it beauty or dismay, the nature
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Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
The subjective nature of art and its expression can be hated, loved or worse, looked on ambivalently. But beauty is
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The Music of Brazil
Afferent moves captured by a melodious groove, imparted by music’s silken allure and eyes-closed pleasure seen in notes and colored
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Anything is Possible…the Path of Thought
In sweet release a passing thought does fade, spinning so gracefully its colored form dissipating, and anchored are those thoughts
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A Kindness to a Beast
Twisted claw and limbs crumpled, head of beast and face displaced and coupled with a gnarled body barely moving rise
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A Woman Finds My Cure
Hit me where it hurts, pigeon-toed and bent, a grimace for a smile and all the while the sense of
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