Author: Tony DeLorger

Poetry Rhyming Verse 

Swallow the World

June 20, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1920 Views 8 Comments choices, insatiable, lose, poem, swallow, world

                          It was never my intention to swallow

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Free Verse Poetry 

Absolution

June 20, 2016June 20, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2497 Views 8 Comments absolution, heart, hurt, judgement, poem, soul

                          Eventually, when hurt has run its all-consuming

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The Spring…rising life

June 19, 2016June 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2277 Views 4 Comments gratitude, life, rising, sate, secrets, spring

Rising up to meet the morning spring…                         And

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Weary Mind

June 19, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2309 Views 7 Comments answers, movement, poem, questions, reason, self

                          Deliver me far from reason, for it

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Patient

June 18, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2842 Views 4 Comments gloom, grey, poem, sun, winter, writing

                          As day infuses its unique deft touch,

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Revived

June 17, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2740 Views 6 Comments age, hope, love, poem, revived, transformed

Revived Aflutter, this heart, all crusted with disappointment, past like a stinging nettle, bound to flesh and reminding ill, yet

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Always Hope

June 16, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2504 Views 4 Comments circumstance, despair, hope, poem, stars, temporary

Hope   No matter how deep despair, there is always a light above, even one single star, distant perhaps, but

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Emotions Flow

June 16, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2741 Views 2 Comments bliss, capacity, emotions, gratitude, poem, unrestrained

Emotions Flow   The surge of emotion is like a wave breaking on an infinite shore, its rolling height then

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Novel Excerpt 

The Discovery…an unfinished novel excerpt.

June 16, 2016June 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1846 Views 4 Comments chosen, communication, excerpt, novel, plants, reality

                          Excerpt from the unfinished novel ‘The Secret

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Free Verse Poetry 

Two-Faced Words

June 15, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2625 Views 4 Comments deceit, honesty, manipulation, poem, purpose, words

Two-faced                         Words are but the dripping of leaking

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Finding Place

June 15, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1980 Views 2 Comments future, love, omniscience, poem, purpose, questions

Finding Place I lay within the folds of warmth, my shell of choice, and peer out toward the stars, their

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Crying to the Heavens

June 15, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2409 Views 2 Comments accepting, dissatisfied, learning, overwhelmed, poem, responsibility

Crying to the Heavens                   Dust cries to the heavens, in saving

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Days Come, Days Go

June 15, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2352 Views 2 Comments cycles, days, poem, seasons, weary, work

Days Come, Days Go                         As night recounts the

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Beyond Love

June 14, 2016April 21, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2604 Views 4 Comments anticipation, beyond, blessing, blind, crushed, dreams

Beyond Love                         Of all our yearning thoughts, our

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Struggles Bane

June 14, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2427 Views 2 Comments beauty, conscience, debt, expectations, function, heart

Struggles Bane   When world closes in, and the ‘Man’ beckons pay, none too softly, while the river beds run

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A Moment Please…

June 13, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1688 Views 2 Comments blessing, hearts, luscious fruit, moment, nectar, orange

                      Sun seems to sway across the blue, as if

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Venezia

June 12, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2839 Views 6 Comments bridges, cafes, canals, history, life, Venezia

Venezia Where canals carry life in earnest states, their arteries the lifeblood of the city, I long to be, and

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Should Be Paradise

June 12, 2016November 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2209 Views 4 Comments accomplishments, adversity, beliefs, choices, fallen, paradise

Should Be Paradise The quest has fallen on blood-soaked, rocky grounds, that struggle for survival returned to millennia past, and

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Endless

June 11, 2016November 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2939 Views 9 Comments birds, blue, consolation, cosmos, endless, eternity

Endless   As sun sears sky, and clouds cringe in distant hollows, birds soar high, their lonely cries like pained

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Epistle Poetry 

Where Beauty and Darkness Abide

June 11, 2016June 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1674 Views 0 Comments beauty, burden perfection, choices, cosmos, darkness, flesh, glory, jewels, journey, light, maudlin, oblivion, poem, read, recognition, steps, strength

                        I dwell not on my peevish reticence, my

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Beneath, Betrayal

June 11, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2158 Views 2 Comments beneath, betrayal, Bitter, deceit, emotions, ending

Beneath, Betrayal                   From dry lips words crack under pressure, eloquent thoughts

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Romantic Poetry 

In the Craving

June 11, 2016November 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3485 Views 6 Comments affection, attention, beauty, bliss, change, craving, elegance, grace, love, openness, passion, peace, poem, poise, transformation, without fear, woman

In the Craving                         What affection do I crave,

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Oblivious

June 10, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2748 Views 6 Comments attention, blind, comfort, deluded, delusion, distracted

Oblivious                                 I see them

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