Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

Until We Are No More

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1567 Views 2 Comments control, destruction, no more, poem, vilification, war

Sporadic the sprays of vilification’s spit, hatred concealed in political plays, the grit of propaganda’s cold intent, vetted in timing

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Mindfulness, My Savior

April 16, 2018April 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1624 Views 2 Comments awareness, black dog, control, mindfulness, poem, savior

The grooves are deep, the paths long and straight, and each time that echo reverberates, sitting in that groove am

Poetry Rhyming Verse Satire

Hard Not to be a Skeptic

April 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1858 Views 10 Comments delusions, leaders, poem, satire, shallow reason, skeptic

Skeptic…please? Typical…the satirical, lamenting the wrongs, disarming the strong, just to affirm the apex, the delusional impact of self-proclaimed betterment,

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An Eclectic Mind

April 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1743 Views 2 Comments cleansing, eclectic, poem, positive affirmation, reality, thoughts/memories

Eclectic remnants of life in wake, of all the clinging thoughts I sate, give solace to uncertain futures, floating in

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The Drone of Distant Explosions

April 15, 2018April 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1505 Views 2 Comments explosions, insanity, justice, malevolence, poem, revenge

In conflict, pain, in ambivalence I complain and in revenge I am restrained, to obtain some control of erratic thoughts

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Who the Hell Am I, in the End?

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1923 Views 2 Comments end, fabrication, poem, right or wrong, skeptic, who

Am I the ruse, an intellectual fabrication of delusion, held in belief until it becomes true, or even a bastion

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Winter Boxes

April 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2017 Views 2 Comments boxes, children's joy, poem, warm inside, white wonderland, winter gloom

Ice the color of winter’s night, mist the burden of fire’s light, deep in the womb of boxes rowed in

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Humility and Balance

April 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1924 Views 2 Comments balance, energy, epistle, humility, shared, symbiotic

Gratitude is the foundation of humility, for without it we are just plagiarizing life, using up its resources at no

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The Poet’s Muse in Beauty’s Purpose

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1826 Views 2 Comments beauty, connection, perfection, poem, poet's muse, purpose

For Poetry Month… Poetry is thoughts etched in clay, then carved tenderly in beauty, until it reaches out and touches

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We Will Meet Again

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1725 Views 2 Comments Arno rover, enduring city, Firenze, medieval, meet, poem

I lament the falling day, see those swallows soar to soak those last rays, as day slips to a golden

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The Irrefutable Power of Thought

April 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1526 Views 2 Comments change within, epistle, leaders, others beliefs, power, thought

Once foretold, the expectations get hold and thoughts indeed fashion reality from a sound and believable investment, creating the will

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The Rise of the Beast

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1913 Views 4 Comments Beast, blind passion, harm, poem, regret, the rise

And so the beast rises, ignited by foolish spices, those idiosyncratic faults of mind, the plinth of ego’s spire, and

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Memories Like Driftwood

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2518 Views 2 Comments dreams, Echoes, memories, past/present/future, poem, reality

Memories like driftwood upon a sea, flow in and out of consciousness, and attached we may be to their often

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I’ll Give it Some Thought

April 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2095 Views 4 Comments contemplation, give, mornings, night, ordeal, thoughts

Disjointed thoughts, as clouds consort to inspire sky’s vast credibility, a veil of eternity in blue explanations, crusted ages in

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Secrets Held in Fear

April 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1886 Views 2 Comments denial, fear, lies, poem, secrets, thoughts

Find that elusive thought, the one you’re too scared to even ponder, ’cause it’s more than wonder, more than a

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When Love Falls Apart

April 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2078 Views 4 Comments blood spilled, love loss, new tomorrow, no words, poem, when

Sweet hues of colored muse, reluctant words in regrets allure, when tempests abound in clear skies, thunder roars in spite

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The Inhibiting Effects of Bias and Belief

April 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1700 Views 2 Comments bias and belief, change, clarity, epistle, expectations/perspective, inhibiting

Accepting Change…. Obscured by a sense of foreboding, we so often don’t see what’s in front of us, clarity so

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The Beauty and Acceptance of Change

April 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2162 Views 2 Comments change, growth/learning, knowledge/wisdom, light, movement, poem

Change is like swirling clouds, colors imbued by sun and tinged in myriad grays or pristine white, as winds pick

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Words Profound in Colors

April 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1883 Views 2 Comments colors, heart, poem, profound, words and phrases, writers joy

I write with words on clouds, syllables shrouded in secrecy and joined by tongues, as air does support the exhalations,

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Music for the Soul

April 9, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2302 Views 4 Comments connection, creative spark, music, poem, released emotions, soul

The heart sways with emotion, the mind transfixed, melodies flow like raging rivers into the dark corners of my soul,

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Variations of the Moral Compass

April 9, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1591 Views 5 Comments epistle, judgement, learning incarnations, morality, understanding, variations

Really, there are no rights or wrongs, just a perspective that we believe due to the parameters of our moral

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I Had a Dream, Profoundly Sad

April 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1691 Views 7 Comments disconnection, dream, future, nature/humanity, poem, profoundly sad

I had a dream, and on a misty morn I stood before a bridge, a question asked, a decision to

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Don’t Get Caught Up in the Negative

April 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1675 Views 2 Comments epistle, imbalance, knowledge to glean, narcissists, negative, positive mind

I administer a sermon to myself daily, its simply my way of verbally keeping my mind in tune, affirmations of