Tony DeLorger, Author at The Creative Exiles

My Stillness Dawn

April 25, 2016September 23, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3162 Views 4 Comments dawn, freedom, hope, inspirations, pleas, stillness

The chill of a hesitant sun rising, Dawn just

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Someone Else’s War

April 25, 2016May 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1789 Views 6 Comments delusion, etched hard, haunt mind, questionable truth, shatters, war

War echoes in humanity, a hard culling, a

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A Ghost, a Cat and a Slave

April 24, 2016May 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2967 Views 9 Comments cat, creaking boards, dog, ghost, grey-haired granny, slave

I have a ghost, no other way to explain it. A nice little grey-haired granny and her little Corgi dog

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Games We Play

April 24, 2016September 29, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2016 Views 6 Comments best friend, irrefutable riddle, lost paradise, mere mortals, sensory joy, wisdom shines

Games We Play Not without trepidation, I follow the paths of fools,

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Who Then Was She?

April 23, 2016June 2, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2247 Views 6 Comments

She leaves the room, and eyes turn, the air

epitomized beauty's glorious renditions,

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What Beauty Be

April 22, 2016April 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2565 Views 2 Comments beauty, beholder, canvas, curves, heart, hope

She epitomized beauty’s glorious renditions, Of finest silk her

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Expression

April 21, 2016September 29, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2140 Views 2 Comments creation, creativity, expression, love, reflection

Expression Creature comforts find pleasured rest, yet what gives life direction is expression, life shared, the outward flow

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The Seeds are Sewn

April 21, 2016April 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2908 Views 2 Comments pawns, power, sacrifices, seeds, sowns, struggles

Seeds of what may come haunt my mind, not fear but

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I Choose Insanity

April 20, 2016May 14, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2257 Views 8 Comments

Insanity may be a perspective I adopt, for reason has fallen far short of my expectations, given that most of

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In Tree’s Embrace

April 19, 2016May 14, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3291 Views 4 Comments blood, embrace, grace, opportunity, soul, tree

The scent of bark does seed my acknowledgement

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A State of Mind

April 19, 2016October 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2593 Views 4 Comments beauty inspires, happiness, mind, peace, state mind

A State of Mind … All persuasions

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My Diary

April 18, 2016June 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2345 Views 2 Comments balance, diary, forget, life, remember, view

Abridged, this invisible diary of life, not penned but looming in clouds, a

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Excerpt- ‘The Secret Doctrine of Clouds’

April 18, 2016May 14, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3191 Views 3 Comments

An excerpt from my unfinished novel ‘The Secret Doctrine of Clouds’, the story of a young Indian girl born into

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Of Light and Darkness

April 17, 2016October 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2447 Views 6 Comments darkness, doubt, evil, joy, light, plight

Light’s dismay … What more in light’s dismay can darkness encroach, its

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Elsie Rachet

April 15, 2016July 6, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2741 Views 6 Comments glen, shop, village, woman

Elsie Rachet … Sun eclipsed the ragged stone monolith above, and light hesitantly edged its way into the glen. The

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To Be a Writer

April 15, 2016October 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2356 Views 4 Comments beauty, comfort, dreams, rest, soul, writer

A writer’s soul … Tis a burden to be a writer, a soul betrayer expletive, a pen dipped in blood

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Excerpt- That Damned Chair

April 14, 2016May 15, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2543 Views 12 Comments aging, chair, dad, parents, son, stubborn

Harry sat steadfast in his favorite armchair, looking determinedly out across the courtyard, his grey stubble chin jutting out like

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What I Am

April 14, 2016May 15, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2043 Views 6 Comments choices, defeat, joy, progress, self, victory

I am a microcosm of thought, a macrocosm of fear, and

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As Souls Exude

April 13, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1908 Views 2 Comments desperate plea, flagrant wrongs, poetry, pretended spite, soul of truth, whosoever whishes denial

In life, denial … Penned of gossamer propensity, words of shimmering veils do usher past the flagrant wrongs, denied

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In Quiet Moments

April 12, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3185 Views 8 Comments higher thought

Quiet moments … I wonder in quiet moments, the pain that escapes my life, what suffering souls must bear, in

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The Flow, My Callused Hands

April 11, 2016May 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2029 Views 9 Comments ineptitude, learning, pain, peace

I face the breach, and stare with eyes resolute, in the wake of disaster’s gift, all that is seen not

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More Whole Than Wanting

April 10, 2016May 14, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2185 Views 6 Comments complexity, life, potential, wanting, whole

What eludes a sentient mind may in fact be unworthy, ill-timed or detrimental in consequence, the soul in keep of

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Confession

April 8, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2826 Views 10 Comments emotions, peace, writer's block, writing

Let go … I find myself between thoughts and words; like wisps of translucent blue smoke, these spectres of ‘perhaps’