Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

All I See Before Me….Infinity

January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1825 Views 2 Comments age, dreams, gaze, humbled, infinity, poem

Infinity and me… Vanquished light recedes to night with a whimper, and star-crossed those beneath, gazing into the firmament, their

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

No Words to Say, Just Be

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2693 Views 10 Comments beauty, breeze, gloaming, night, poem, words

A dexterous touch, flesh tingling from the cool rush of air, as day falls slowly and shadows elongate, herald the

Ode Poetry

Echoes of the Dead Rising…who turned that light on?

January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 7102 Views 6 Comments bright, inconvenience, morning light, poem, rising, slumber lost

An Ode to Morn Rising… Do I choose the refracting light that infuses my dark slumber, teasing my sentience to

Epistle Poetry

The Blind Belief of Humanity

January 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2343 Views 2 Comments belief, blind, earth, poem, superiority, virus

Clearly sentience is subjective, impossibly all encompassing and rarely even partial, dependant upon perspective, yet in arrogance we deem ourselves

Epistle Poetry

The Volatility of Assumption

January 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2020 Views 2 Comments belief, epistle, hearsay, hurt, investment, truth

Tempered by a question posed, assumptions stand in abeyance, momentarily disarmed in light of clarity, yet assumptions can be irrefutable

Poetry Satire

Too Beguiling to Discern

January 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2172 Views 4 Comments beguiling, burned, fear, love, poem, too old

I bequeath this heart to science, for I know not how it works, so led astray by feminine wiles, so

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Pointless Regret…a lull in a receptive mind

January 12, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2331 Views 10 Comments future, mistaken, poem, pointless, regret, Rose

Regret I hold like a wilting rose, pale and leached of all color, for what good is my piteous maudlin

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Thoughts of You…a vacant space in a new day

January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2588 Views 4 Comments loss, love, passion, poem, thoughts, you memories

When thoughts like clouds on a dawning day, shards in radiant display all splayed on sky, my heart recounts those

Epistle Poetry

No Burden Need be Heavy in Light

January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2185 Views 2 Comments burden, epistle, freedom, kindness, love, malice

No burden is heavy when accepted with joy, yet we so malign our burdens until they are swollen with our

Poetry Rhyming Verse

In a Troubled Mind

January 11, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2370 Views 2 Comments acceptance, lost, mind, poem, pride, troubled

In a Troubled Mind…where even dreams are lost I walked along the road, unerringly, the dust of my misgivings clouding

Free Verse Poetry

Respect Your Elders

January 10, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 8896 Views 6 Comments boss, elders, know better, poem, respect, youth

Elders…a failing body does not mean a failing mind. Elders have experience…listen! How can my failing sight be seen, known

Poetry Rhyming Verse

All Grown Up, Yet Linger Still

January 10, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2182 Views 4 Comments era, intimacy, life, linger, poem, spirituality

Lust settles like dust upon the weary traveler, so far removed from that era of life, when self-gratification comes second

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Ineptitude’s Echo…a question of perfection

January 9, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2263 Views 6 Comments aspiring, faults, hope, humanity, ineptitude, poem

Ineptitude is like a gentle breeze, tainted with the smoke of burning flesh, a putrid stench that sours fresh and

Free Verse Poetry

Where Did It Go…this Life?

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1830 Views 6 Comments go, journey, memories, poem, present, time

Where Does Time Go… Relentless this mind to wander, to sift through the sands of past, the joys and what’s

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Needless in the Wake of Love

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2405 Views 4 Comments beauty, conflict, heart, moments, needless, poem

Needless conflict in love… Each nuance tolls like a temple bell, each sensation like a swan skating on a mirrored

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Deliverance by Our Own Hand

January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1770 Views 2 Comments deliverance, destiny, ignorance, master, poem, self

I wait for deliverance, as if time commends, but what force does ensue if not myself, my own expectations; so

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Artistic Hands, Innate

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2692 Views 2 Comments artistic, expression, innate, life, poem, soul

Innate Talent… Through fingers of delicate touch, hands so dexterous tis magic to the eyes, and a heart stops to

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

One Step From Dreams

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2100 Views 4 Comments creative thought, new perspective, poem, routine, step, time

New step, original thought… Occupied with distraction life flies by, but has an original thought ever pried open a mind,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

How Beguiling the Sound

January 7, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2075 Views 4 Comments beguiling, guitar, love, poem, romance, sound

A guitar sits upon a stand, a yearning melody imbibed in every grain of wood, and strings still in taught

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Contesting Reality with Ownership

January 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1889 Views 2 Comments connection, contesting, nature, perfection, poem, will

World without end, beauty without dissension, is nature’s way; life and death but cycles within a vast and infinite echo

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

From Ominous Heights

January 7, 2017January 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2527 Views 4 Comments delusion, expectation, fatal, heights, ominous, poem

Expectations rise to unrealistic heights, when hope inspires beyond its plush soft pillow, and soaring into its manifest being, it,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

I Turned a Stone, just to see…

January 6, 2017January 6, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1900 Views 4 Comments life, peace, stone, storms, turned, understanding

A Stone Turned… I turned a stone, to see which side is smoother, and behold the side that faces sky

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Sting of Broken Souls

January 5, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1796 Views 2 Comments broken soul, no love, pain, poem, slain by words, sting

In anguish set, of vanquished self forlorn, prostrate in lowly visions of dark affront, I lay, slain by words, from