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Academia and the Reality of Any Art

May 2, 2017May 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2503 Views 4 Comments academia, art, egos, epistle, no heart, pompous

The rhetoric of academia is often self-serving, overwritten to the extent of illegibility, and deriving original thought from others to

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Pyramid Lake Mysteries, Legends and Hauntings

April 27, 2017August 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 13231 Views 11 Comments ancient lake, hauntings, legends, mysteries, Pyramid Lake

Pyramid Lake Mysteries … Nevada abounds with unexplained mysterious tales, Legends born of bravery, sorrows and tragedies Leaving impressions

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Greatest Loves in History – Poetry

April 21, 2017April 22, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2105 Views 2 Comments epistle, eternal, greatest loves, lovers, Phyllis Doyle, soul

Greatest Loves in History The greatest loves in history Lasted for life of the lovers, Because they had faith and

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All That Really Matters

April 13, 2017April 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1571 Views 2 Comments epistle, essence, experience, matters, physical, soul

All that matters is the soul, the essence of us in skinless vessel, and life, so pointedly wound in experience,

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What Do We Tell Ourselves? Truth or Lie

April 8, 2017April 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1688 Views 2 Comments denial, epistle, lie, parody, truth, unfulfilled

Truth or Lie? The lie will not fulfill… Driven to consider ourselves, we learn too quickly the deception we propagate

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Living the Paradigm of Fear

April 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2360 Views 4 Comments betterment, delusion, fear, paradigm, poem, truth

In quest of paradigms to placate the fears, humanity errs on the side of insanity, as fear begets fear, and

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The Making of Life

April 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1766 Views 2 Comments coffers, disgust, making, omniscient eyes, poem, potential

Our making, a mistake? Omniscient eyes in benevolent gaze, peruse the battlefields of life’s struggle, the rise and fall of

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Living the Lies of Our Masters…ancient technology

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2640 Views 5 Comments ancient cultures, history, lies, masters, poem, technology

Ancient Technology… In arrogant refrains, humanity, with resounding indignant claims, profess our superiority in technology, yet we are babes, so

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The Greater Loss of Temptation’s Embrace

March 30, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1860 Views 4 Comments betrayal, epistle, failure, loss, selfishness, temptation

The sting of loss… Man plays a poignant game with temptation, the recompense never quite acknowledged, the circumstances not advantaged,

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Walls and Human Propensity

March 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2312 Views 4 Comments delusion, epistle, fear, reality, vulnerability, walls

What walls break, before delusion sets in, will be the salvation of a thirsty mind, one that voluntarily opens to

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That Knock on the Door

March 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1638 Views 2 Comments belief, irony, knock, poem, reward, selling religion

Absolved of sins, of everything, pious minds inflict their will and belief on any breathing target, and in truth they

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That Can Only Be Right

March 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1583 Views 2 Comments acceptable, choice, compromise, poem, right, values

As the outside infringes upon one’s personal sanctum, the more one sees the detriment of lives forsaken in conduct, lost

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They, Who Choose to Harm and Soil Truth

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2189 Views 2 Comments damage, delusion, harm, hatred, poem, truth

Causing harm through jealousy… Who are we to be brutalized by scandalous intentions, lies of invention that persecute innocence, when

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Perceptions of the Burden of Struggle

March 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2197 Views 2 Comments burden, epistle, freedom, learning, perceptions, struggle

Struggle is the calling card of life, for souls with potential to grow and understand, and we may curse the

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The Panacea for All Ills

March 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2314 Views 2 Comments epistle, fear, potential, remedy, stagnation, transformation

I’m exhausted, because people won’t help themselves, are so stuck to the fears of past, they refuse to venture into

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Those Who Came Before Us…ancestry

March 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2497 Views 4 Comments ancestry, epistle, harsh life, revere, strength, struggle

Lest we forget those who came before us, faced change and new worlds far more hostile than our own, and

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To Join the Flow in Life

March 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1689 Views 2 Comments change, fear, flow, imbalance, poem, stress

Frustration lines the periphery of life, like flames taunting the balances we adhere, yet imbalance introduces change, and change we

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I Pray for Peace

March 18, 2017March 18, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1712 Views 2 Comments death, hope, paradise, peace, poem, war

Iniquitous the surging wages of war and deadly affronts, that mark of a world seeking only peace, yet here we

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The Limits of Assuming Anything

February 26, 2017February 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1698 Views 4 Comments assuming, belief, circumstance, epistle, judgement, perspective

Assuming is limitation… Fortune and misfortune are perilous beliefs, just undulations in the waves of aftermath our choices marking the

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All Blessed in Our Own Way

February 22, 2017February 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2102 Views 6 Comments blessed, epistle, knowledge, sharing, understanding, worthy

Knowledge is an insight into certain aspects of life, and often rejected by those who think they know, as we

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Moths to a Flame, to Uphold the Darkness

February 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1866 Views 2 Comments darkness, flame, moths, parents, poem, vindictive

I bear witness to the ingratitude, the selfish disdain of believing lies, truth so tainted a child would despise the

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The View from the Fulcrum…inequity

February 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1773 Views 2 Comments better way, fulcrum, inequity, poem, poverty, Wealth

We sit upon the fulcrum, surrounded by inequity, one side in the clouds, silver spoons and wealth abounds in profusion,

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Who We Are in Truth

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1984 Views 2 Comments awareness, epistle, experience, freedom, influence, past

We carry the burden of our past, colored filters in aftermath of change, and how we see the world, tainted