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So, You Want To Be An American Citizen?

June 21, 2018January 14, 2019 R J Schwartz 1561 Views 3 Comments American Citizenship, Becoming American, Citizen, Patriotic Poetry, RJ Schwartz

So You Want to be a Citizen? Stand in line and do the time The legal way to join the

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Distant Calls Within Eternity

June 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1666 Views 2 Comments distant calls, not alone, poem, seeking, voices, worlds unknown

Distant calls from worlds unknown, prick my ears to their errant beat, as if insistent, so indiscreet, and I cannot

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As I Walk the Path, My Senses Swoon

June 19, 2018June 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1670 Views 4 Comments nature's blooms, pie, poem, senses, sublime, wish

Sweet the nectar of blooms upon a breeze, delicate the redolent scent so pure and infused in every breath, to

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Beyond it All, There is Love

June 19, 2018June 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1549 Views 2 Comments acceptance, beyond, love, poem, struggle, understanding

Convey I must the joy of being, the pure breath of acceptance that underpins the seeing of reality’s breadth, its

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The Peace That Life Affords

June 18, 2018June 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1653 Views 2 Comments explosions, kindness, life affords, peace, pent up anger, poem

How curt the reply from questioning the ire of a passer by, reacting all too much to life’s abrupt interpretations,

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Stop the World, I Need a Ruling – The Fight Over My Heart and Mind

June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 R J Schwartz 2016 Views 2 Comments cutting cords, double vision, Lapse of reasoning, RJ Schwartz, stop the world

Stop the world, I need a ruling I’m not lost; only confused A momentary lapse of reasoning When two and

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As Time Settles and We in Acceptance Afford

June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1583 Views 4 Comments acceptance, age, poem, retrospect, time settles, voice of reason

Days flow like gentle streams, trickling time over earth and stone, to follow paths meandering, to find the stillness of

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Our Mother, Her Kindness Ours to Value

June 18, 2018June 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1707 Views 2 Comments balance, kindness, mother nature, no intention, our teacher, poem

How life transcends us, our vastly limited views, and what is real within its rhyme, turns our limited views askew,

Inspirational Poetry Ode

An Ode to Hope, Our Last Stronghold

June 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2090 Views 2 Comments belief, hope, ode, poem, possibility, transformation

Hope is like a diaphanous cloud, pure against the blue of infinite possibility, yet, so fine an interlude between our

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Run, Run to Stay

June 17, 2018June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1970 Views 2 Comments experience, from change, from self, from time, poem, stay

Run, run, into the setting sun, past where time is done and beginnings are just passing thoughts, not aught to

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Being Centered in the Storm

June 17, 2018June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2277 Views 2 Comments centered, fate, insight with age, kindness and sharing, learning, poem

My beard gets longer, my mind stronger and life seems to relent on the avalanche of pain once dealt, or

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Learn We Can and Must

June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1660 Views 4 Comments falling, getting up, looking to future, must learn, poem, truth

Where I fall, a shadow remains, to remind me of the reality that stormed my gates, and the causality that

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Finding the Peace, Finding Release

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1418 Views 2 Comments avoidance and denial, doubts, epistle, faith and gifts, finding release, proof

Dissuaded by the insistence of voices that resound like echoes in my memories, I often hesitate with those trials of

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Sweetly Sings Robin in the Tree by my Window

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2081 Views 6 Comments

Sweetly sings Robin in the tree by my window, and awakens me with her melodious song, little ones in nest

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The Winter Write

June 16, 2018June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1767 Views 2 Comments creativity, freedom to write, gloom, poem, winter write, yearning for sun

Gone are the days of sun, the warmth of tender embrace, and clouds so free, their white sails across infinity’s

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When Pain Subsides…

June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1679 Views 3 Comments by our hand, choice, epistle, pain, understanding, wrongs

Expectant, the trials and tribulations of life, yet unexpected the extent of suffering we instill in our own lives, by

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I, a Feather in its Hands

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1491 Views 2 Comments breeze, feather, poem, salt air, serene, soothing

Inveterate the lilt of breeze, the lulling movement of air appease, to nudge clouds to nowhere in particular, a swirling

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The Oneness of Existence

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2030 Views 2 Comments assimilation, community, consciousness, existence, oneness, poem

Consciousness flows through all living things, some passive, others awakened, others acutely accurate in perception, but all to some degree

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The Rise and Fall of a Leaf

June 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2900 Views 0 Comments autumn/winter/spring, cycles, leaf, life and death, poem, rise and fall

Implored to just let go, a leaf in autumn’s rustic dry state, accepts its windblown plight, and death is not

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The Simplicity of Being

June 14, 2018June 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1527 Views 0 Comments connection with nature, of being, poem, purpose, reality, simplicity

While we are straining our minds to find purpose here on earth, life is indeed passing us by, moments of

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I Am Held Within its Eyes

June 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1641 Views 0 Comments blessed, eternity, held within, nature, poem, seas shore

Waves lap upon a distant shore, as if time beating, and each fan of water’s relent, spreads like ripples on

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Aspire to be a Legend Too

June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2079 Views 0 Comments aspire, belief, bravery, give hope, legends, poem

Legends are born in the quintessential ethos of intrepid hearts in sacrifice and victory, ascribing to exaggerated states of heroism,

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Time’s Esoteric Measure

June 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2210 Views 2 Comments esoteric, expectations and perception, multi-dimensional, poem, reality, time

Steeped in the provisions of illusive time, we accept reality and all its rhymes, but time is no-one’s friend, nothing