Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

Face to Face, Are We Good Enough?

January 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1599 Views 0 Comments clandestine acts, delusion, ego, good, poem, protection

Tribulations like inevitable tempests in wait at the periphery, loom over a heart’s complicity, for all the human plays of

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The Light of the New, Storm Passed

January 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2660 Views 2 Comments cat in fear, deluge of rain, lighning, poem, rolling thunder, storm

Cracking light, echoing in the dark blue weight of sky, like street lamps in the clouds, intermittent stabs in the

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Seeking Kin in a World of Conflict

January 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1868 Views 10 Comments conflict, home world, humanity, poem, seeking kin, transcendence

Somewhere in a world long gone, my beginnings echo far from earth, and I wonder in my former self, what

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The Learning is Never Easy

January 21, 2018January 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2338 Views 2 Comments arrogance, changes, easy, learning, poem, self-importance

And who can tell, when life’s about to change, rearrange our everything, the dark clouds moving in, the rains to

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A Life Complete in Acceptance

January 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2099 Views 2 Comments complete, expectations/appreciation, experience/gratitude, higher purpose, poem, soul's learning/acceptance

A life complete is one where expectations are overshadowed by appreciation, and every nuance of experience is sated with gratitude,

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Of Love and Sharing

January 20, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2943 Views 6 Comments kindness, paradigm, poem, potential, sharing, unconditional love

Love is simply home, where the souls longs to be, wrapped within the embrace of acceptance, regardless of weather, despite

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Heat Waves…more of extremes

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1885 Views 0 Comments extremes, heat wave, intensity, no relief, poem, suffering pets

Sweat beads upon the brow, growing orbs of crystal light, as heat sears the flesh, a rising heat, oppressive days

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The Suffering After the Score

January 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1871 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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To Face Another Day

January 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2138 Views 4 Comments beauty/serenity, face, mystery, poem, sunset, transformation

Eloquent the dusting of fading light upon the land, rich hues like flickering gold on velvet variegations of blue, growing

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Broken, but Not Necessarily Irresolute

January 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1844 Views 2 Comments blaming, broken, dashed hopes & dreams, delusions, epistle, victims

Fractures become gaping cracks and fissures become chasms, when broken souls display the emptiness of failure’s surgical ‘ectomies’ as hopes

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Summer’s Sizzle…my daily report

January 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2227 Views 6 Comments Australia, dray heat, poem, sizzle, struggle to keep cool, Summer Heat

Heat brings lethargy, animals strewn across the floor, on backs, inelegantly splayed out, trying to keep the temperature at bay,

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Strife, the Perception I’m Rectifying

January 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1770 Views 4 Comments acceptance, calmly expecting wishes, perception, poem, rectifying strife, trust

A wave of devastation crashes into reality, sucks up all hope and possibility from thoughts and expectations, yet I cannot

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Avoiding the Pain of Change

January 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1906 Views 4 Comments accepting challenge, challenges not obstacles, change, easier path, epistle, pain

What is a bump is just a bump, what is a disaster can only be a disaster if that is

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We Are Where We Should Be, Always

January 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1454 Views 2 Comments acceptance, always, memories, paradigm of love, poem, soul learning

Within me the dark past attested, the triumphs arrested before the ego takes flight, and memory strikes hard in knowing,

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When Reality Finds its Place

January 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2077 Views 4 Comments kindness, love rejected, poem, reality, righteous direction, wisdom

Change is an imposing state of heart, when love is torn and loss is all there is, but in a

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The Letters…Unopened

January 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2632 Views 4 Comments killed in action, letters, passed on, poem, unopened, unread

Letters unopened, tinged with stain and running ink, dried and bubbled stiff, unopened, sadly bereft of care, and sentiments like

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To Appease That Hole in Me

January 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1841 Views 6 Comments appease, hole in me, ideas, poem, sounds, writing

The floor boards creak as someone walks the halls, a sharp but mournful sound, as Beast my cat snores behind

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Chasing Butterflies with a Hammer

January 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1895 Views 9 Comments chasing, envy of love, epistle, human potential, hurt, narcissists

The older you get, the more you see, the harder it is to accept what people do in the blinkered

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Summer Storm, My Cat’s Dismay

January 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2246 Views 6 Comments cat unnerved, lightning & thunder, poem, storm, summer, writing

The wind tickles my window, and a momentary shudder follows, the light now dim as clouds close in and day

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Open Your Eyes and See Reality

January 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 9002 Views 2 Comments appreciation, beauty, experience, eyes, poem, reality

Beauty rests on anything attuned, open to the miracle of life in bloom, and those who cannot attest this view

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On a Train to Nowhere

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2152 Views 2 Comments nowhere, poem, spreading virus, terror, train, zombie apocalypse

This was prompted by my favorite Zombie Apocalypse movie made in South Korea. A brilliant film worth a look; the

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Every Breath Another Deception

January 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1878 Views 2 Comments deception, epistle, Greed, money, paradigms, spiritual life

This morning I received a letter from the state government, an application for discounts on energy costs. Wonderful I thought,

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Too Many Lives to Count

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2059 Views 2 Comments count, memories and feelings, past lives, poem, recognition, status

They haunt my dreams, these flickers of a movie reel, memories I feel so deeply in my state of disrepair,