Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

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In Passion’s Yoke

May 28, 2017May 28, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2449 Views 8 Comments passion, poem, Sin, surrender, used, yoke

A breach, a panicked exhalation, as did her heart leap from its place, upon the sleeve and open, and the

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The Flight of Thoughts

May 28, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2351 Views 2 Comments committed, flight, intention, poem, remnants, thoughts

Wanton gasping breaths, driven hard by thoughts aloft, now spiraling down in servitude to gravity’s final will, as darkness consumes

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Echoes, Experience and Choices

May 27, 2017May 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2106 Views 2 Comments choices, Echoes, experience, morality, poem, sum of us

Raised in the moral bastion of mother’s mind, I grew in balance but not in kind, predilections not to override

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Demons Live for This, So it Seems

May 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2157 Views 8 Comments demons, end, facing death, pain, regret, torture

Erratic pulses and flashing eyes, panic driven panting sighs, as electric skin and beading sweat, mists in chill of secrets

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My Father’s Sliding Into a Place of No return

May 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1949 Views 5 Comments denial, depression, father, life, lost, sliding

A furrowed brow too heavy to be unburdened, and sweat the oozing of an incontinent pain, when a mind in

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Swollen Minds Yet Truth So Misconstrued

May 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1794 Views 2 Comments judgement, knowing, limited, misconstrued, poem, truth

Needless to say I’m wrong, having so longed for the truth, but like all reality it rests not on a

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Dancing Light Upon Water

May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3031 Views 6 Comments beauty, dancing, life, light, perfect, poem

Light plays upon the water, dancing impassioned shimmering sight, and the blue infused so elegantly within its writhing, shards streaming

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Freedom Without Fear

May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2542 Views 2 Comments acceptance, control, fear, freedom, life, poem

Falling is but freedom, a release from bounds, and as fleeting as it is, it is a glimpse, a moment,

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Knowing Up From Down…enigmas

May 24, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2338 Views 4 Comments enigmas, insanity, poem, question, reality, up/down

I fall awake every night, asleep, in my wildest dreams, fall flat on my face while standing and fly like

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Opinions Galore, Truth Somewhat More

May 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1718 Views 2 Comments appearance, observer, opinions, perspective, poem, truth

Who am I to say right, when wrong may beguile a mind, dress in finery and glimmer light, and who’s

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A Closed Perspective

May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2512 Views 6 Comments compassion, delusion, faults, judgement, perspective, poem

Its all about perspective… Who is beyond repair, beyond redemption from mistakes made, and I wonder how we may judge

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Perilous Times

May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3122 Views 4 Comments arrogance, destruction, earth, humanity, perilous, poem

Mine eyes do deceive me, falsehood mocks my guile, for life did turn and me discern not its implication, for

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Had He Known Her Pain

May 21, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2047 Views 2 Comments blame, choices, death, judgement, poem, sea

He stood upon a shore and peered into the endless sea, skies brooding, foam crests like white birds skating, and

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

Impossibility, Another Truth

May 20, 2017May 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2446 Views 6 Comments all is possible, assumptions, epistle, impossibility, judgement, perceptions

Foolhardy it seems, one ant to sup on an elephant for tea, yet impossibility bleeds and life’s secrets supersede, with

Poetry Satire

Please, Give Me Writer’s Block

May 20, 2017May 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2379 Views 8 Comments block, can't stop, no sleep, rest, satire, writing

Ill at ease with my languid state, lost and weary, up so late, grinding stones and feats of mind, do

Epistle Inspirational Poetry

Nothing to Fear, Everything to Gain

May 18, 2017May 19, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1741 Views 8 Comments bliss, epistle, fear, gain, life, potential

How gentle the sway of life, the eternal pulsing of energy that underlies all being, and in sentient moments

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Counting My Blessings

May 18, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2481 Views 4 Comments blessings, joy, poem, truth, wisdom, writing

My Blessings… I am blessed, no doubt, but I have blessed my life with intention, a penchant to learn, to

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My Quill, My Companion

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2590 Views 4 Comments beauty, companion, poem, purpose, quill, secrets

Writing, my companion… The quill burns as words, smoldering from birth, touch parchment planes of vacancy, and they seer the

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Imagine What Life Could Be

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2300 Views 2 Comments acceptance, epistle, imagine, love, peace, understanding

What more can a soul do but be open, without judgement serve life, and find beauty in everything, for a

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Where Once in Residing Joy

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1933 Views 2 Comments betrayal, imprisoned, joy, lies, poem, residing

Windswept and desolate that part within me, that once held hope for we two; so dashed my dreams, so perilously

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The Nature of Being

May 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2010 Views 2 Comments beauty, cycles, life, nature, not judge, poem

Cycles in nature… The roses bloom in glorious array and then fade just as fast, their life stricken with brevity,

Epistle Poetry

We See What We Want to See

May 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2343 Views 2 Comments blind, choices, ego, epistle, see, want

Want and sight…a consideration Eyes choose the focus, crystal clear that fades at the periphery, and a mind does the

Epistle Poetry

The Limitations of Will

May 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1849 Views 2 Comments ego, epistle, limitations, thoughts, wants/needs, will

Bound by the will, we regulate every passing thought and action, each one to mirror our wants our so presumed