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The Banyan Tree…in life’s finite calling

July 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2654 Views 12 Comments ageless, banyan, finite calling, floods, poem, river

The indifferent tree stood ageless by the currents of brown river undulations, surging from mountains caress to the mud plateau

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The Harp…in the loving hands of a mistress

July 26, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2395 Views 8 Comments grace, harp, mistress, music, passion, poem

Slender fingers perched set, acquiesce, each string a tone of melody, in wait, and when supple touch and tune ensues,

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‘Daily Desire’

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 Rob Welsh 2854 Views 10 Comments desire, life, love, nature, NZ Poetry, Pearldiver, romance

Since the creation of time the human race have been fascinated by the forces of nature and how

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‘Kind Freedom’

July 25, 2017July 27, 2017 Rob Welsh 2431 Views 16 Comments freedom, life, NZ Poetry, Pearldiver, Pets

Most take freedom for granted, usually without any thought of what loss of that freedom truly represents to any living

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Desertscape…a wonder

July 24, 2017July 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3440 Views 7 Comments cacti, desert, heat, poem, sand, wonder

A wonder… Colors smeared in vacillating, rising heat, red tinged and shimmering haze, earth cracking, the azure sky, endless, melds

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Love and a Cup of Coffee

July 24, 2017July 24, 2017 Clive Williams 1853 Views 6 Comments beautiful place, coffee, love, morning breeze, morning kiss, old love

It’s quite splendid to awake with things of Joy A face of beauty, with the fresh scent of coffee is

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That Magical Time

July 24, 2017August 4, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2146 Views 8 Comments flowers, magical time, memories, poems, poetry, rainbows, song birds

What do we really remember? What do we really know? Are the voices that call us really voices from the

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Sigh

July 23, 2017July 24, 2017 Shannon Henry 2951 Views 9 Comments cry, jump, laugh, laughter, shout, sigh

Sigh … Jump up and down Go ahead- scream and shout Or better yet- just laugh until you cry Until

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Caught

July 23, 2017July 24, 2017 Shannon Henry 2689 Views 8 Comments caught, escape, knots, spiderwebs, tangled net, trapped

Caught yet again in the trap of life Ensnared in a tangled net A tangled net I have woven for

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Are You Happy Now?

July 23, 2017July 23, 2017 Shannon Henry 2741 Views 9 Comments fall, happy now, leap, limb, risk

Are you happy now .. Well, are you happy now? You had me where you wanted Like a

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The Shed…a Man’s Paradise Lost

July 22, 2017October 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1779 Views 2 Comments decay, lost, paradise, poem, shed, time

The Shed…a Man’s Paradise Lost A Man’s Paradise Lost… Nothing sadder that an old shed, a man’s private sanctum lost

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Mysteries of Time – A Trio of Thoughts

July 21, 2017 R J Schwartz 2064 Views 3 Comments time, time honored, tradition, values

Trapped in a Moment Tick….. Tick….. Tick….. Flashes of eternity Lifetimes surface and then disappear Captured in the prison of

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Morning Birds

July 19, 2017July 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3528 Views 4 Comments beauty, birds, feeding, morning, poem, sunlight

Birds alive in paradise… The parrots feast on figs atop my tree, and I gaze the vast blue vista,

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Winter’s Night By Firelight

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2372 Views 6 Comments delight, firelight, poem, port, reading, winter

Firelight bliss… Light dances on walls like ballerinas pirouettes, and shadows stretch to accommodate the flames alive in hearths

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Approaching

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2345 Views 4 Comments approaching, cat purring, poem, sealed inside, storm, winter's cill

Approaching storm in winter’s chill… Inevitably, the sun wanes, seasons dragging its arc to shallow, and the festering chill seeps

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Slipping From Light to Dark and Back Again

July 18, 2017July 18, 2017 R J Schwartz 2320 Views 4 Comments darkness, insanity, night

Anticipation… Eyes glued to the frosted window pane “Tis the dying of the light, I seek” Focused on the fading

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Memory Lane

July 18, 2017July 18, 2017 Rasma Raisters 6031 Views 6 Comments melodies, memories, memory lane, poems, poetry

Ah, memory lane, you make me smile, a place where I can go, leisurely stroll. Honeysuckle vines hanging down,

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The Cell

July 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2354 Views 4 Comments baggage, cell, darkness, poem, recompense, regret

The cell bleak, light-less, deafening silence wet with a chilled anticipation, and walls are rough, a bite to the touch

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Visions Within My Soul

July 17, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2599 Views 8 Comments balance, dreams, harmony, Mother Earth, peace, visions

Visions Within My Soul Dreams and visions within my soul take me beyond Tomorrow, where the world is new, So

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The Gumshoe – Pictures of Indecency

July 14, 2017 R J Schwartz 1946 Views 5 Comments cheating, detective, Gumshoe, infidelity

Another day on the job, another long wait Hands deep in the worn pockets of an overcoat Collar turned up,

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Rose in the Snow

July 14, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2700 Views 10 Comments love, poems, poetry, roses, snow

The rose bush, that they had planted, their first year together – had the reddest roses. Now as the first

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City Mornings…first breath

July 14, 2017July 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1944 Views 6 Comments City, first breath, morning, poem, traffic, zombies

First Breath… The pitch streets surge, growling motors a blur; a slow awakening morn, forces billowing cloud strata aside, for

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Swinging In Winter

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017 Clive Williams 2204 Views 11 Comments Christmas, christmas poem, winter, winter poem

There is just something about the cold and snow which gives me the chills Rolling down short mountains as live