Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

Afferent Displays, So Deep in Eyes

February 2, 2018February 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3367 Views 14 Comments afferent, beauty, divine, love, poem, souls as one

Love paints the gloaming sky with such untiring beauty, eloquent the silent words, attesting hearts in transition, suppositions of endless

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

My Visitation

February 2, 2018February 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1716 Views 4 Comments connection, Eternal love, ghostly appearance, love for Kim, poem, visitation

Who goes there, in this my darkened chamber where shadows trace the walls in slender angled affront, and an opened

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In Quiet Repose, the Knowing

February 2, 2018February 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2262 Views 2 Comments clarity, diaphanous cloud, expression, forgiveness, knowing, poem

Adrift like a diaphanous cloud, a wisp of white pristine silence, skating across the eternal blue, gently burgeoning in slow

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A Better Way of Life Ahead

February 1, 2018February 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1850 Views 2 Comments ahead, better life, challenges, epistle, no judgement, perspective

What we attract in life is either people offering the pain of learning, or people offering the nurture of being,

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You Tell Me, Am I Crazy?

February 1, 2018January 31, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1671 Views 6 Comments crazy, cynical, inequality and sin, insane world, left wanting, poem

Can it be that what I see is blind to truth, my perception found wanting, my insanity absconding with what

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Be Kind to Yourself

January 31, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3775 Views 4 Comments accepting limits and potential, kind, letting go of past, poem, release, resolve

Like a breeze upon the cheek, the gentle release of day, when moments collide in memory of all that coincided

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Holding onto the Past is Counter-Productive

January 31, 2018January 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1849 Views 4 Comments accept lessons, deal with it, holding, imbalance, past affronts, poem

Like powder kegs we store the frustrations of our retrograde moon, our understanding shed in the sheltering of our delicate

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Just Another Summer Day, Reprieve

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1816 Views 4 Comments bird life, burden, heat, poem, summer, vines & fruit

Pale green tendrils like slender curling fingers, hold with stoic strength the burgeoning vines, trailing bows and fence like arms

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Emoting Life’s Anxiety

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1752 Views 4 Comments emoting, expression, human understanding, love & kindness, moods, poem

Emotions are like the weather, often unpredictable, in extremes and often triggered by low pressure systems, when rain we might,

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Within Reality, Our Choices

January 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2469 Views 3 Comments delusions, perceptions and belief, poem, potential, protecting the persona, reality

A temporal view at best, our perceptions of reality, the causality of the paths we create, in response to belief

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In the End, Honesty

January 29, 2018January 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2136 Views 3 Comments breakups, change, honesty, poem, truth, unfinished business

What curtains fall before the last act is done, and plots left undone leave questions, as these can cause much

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Social Stigma

January 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2266 Views 2 Comments compliance, embarrassment, judged wanting, poem, rejected, social

The flurry of incoming thoughts, swept away his complacency, perhaps his confidence was not all he thought it was; and

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Beyond the Candle Flame

January 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2030 Views 8 Comments candle, change, gathering clouds, Greed, poem, world

In repose I watch the candle flicker, the time slowly fritter away, as if in a malaise of fallen dreams,

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The Nature of Causality

January 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2108 Views 2 Comments causality, learning in life, life a gift, perspective, poem, truth

The flow so endlessly uncertain, the undulations so extreme, perspective in radical rhyme-less change, distorting all and dreams, and life

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Words with Wings

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2081 Views 6 Comments kindness, live in the present, love, poem, positive life, wings

When you feel beaten, when life shows its upper hand, the score is against you, nothing left to command, just

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Futility of Negativism

January 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1893 Views 0 Comments epistle, futility, judgement, negativism, no responsibility, victim

Futile, the convincing of resolute negativity, for the soul learns not to be compassionate in order to rise to blame,

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The World Cannot Change, Without Us Changing First

January 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1737 Views 2 Comments change, epistle, lies and deceit, love, one world government, politics

We can’t instantly change what took so long to create, but we can influence how people think, by example, and

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What a Simple Dove Can Teach Us

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2376 Views 2 Comments assimilation, awareness, dove, epistle, freedom, humanity & imbalance

The flighted dove knows not its beauty, aloft in freedom its pure understanding, and in survival it is drawn to

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Hurt and Fear in Our Lives

January 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2180 Views 4 Comments epistle, fear, human learning, hurt, insecurity, love

Hurt echoes in a mind far longer than joy, and like a weighted cover it dulls life, attaches itself to

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One Night of Pleasured Bliss

January 24, 2018January 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2558 Views 0 Comments evermore, love's intent, night, pleaqsured bliss, poem, touches earth

Amid the sway of love’s sweet ardor, like waves upon an exotic shore, the swell so beguiling, the heights

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The Acceptance of Truth, No Matter What

January 24, 2018January 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1837 Views 0 Comments acceptance, choices, insight, poem, selfless, truth

Ever true, the heart of a selfless man, a man in the labor of his soul, to glean what the

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Flow as We in Expectation

January 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1681 Views 0 Comments aspirations, creations from within, expectations, obstacles of fear, poem, what we create

The winds only touch the still, those running feel not its afferent trace, and those against the blow just hasten

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Accept, Relinquish, Surrender, Light, Teach, Engender

January 23, 2018January 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3875 Views 0 Comments energy, ethereal light, importance, poem, six words, surrender

Thrice the echo resounded clean, as if to insist on meaning, and the words imbued the body complete, I, saturated