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Those Who Break

April 11, 2017April 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2009 Views 4 Comments Bend, blame, break, malicious, poem, pretenders

How we bend to meet life’s affronts, to bare the pain of mistakes and recompense from the choices we make,

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Experience Not Defining, More a Learning

April 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1749 Views 2 Comments defining, denial, learning, poem, regret, self

His steps faltered, the ground as viscous clay, dragging him down, strength waning amid the burden of movement, and clouds

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Am I Wrong to Question Rights?

April 10, 2017 R J Schwartz 2054 Views 3 Comments human rights, natural rights, rights

Am I wrong to question “rights?” Those complexities of society With little oversight It works for me Should we disagree

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One Flame, and Darkness Must Abide

April 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1935 Views 4 Comments abide, darkness, flame, light, poem, surrender

Abide the light… A flame flickers in the still night, radiating a sphere of rich golden light, and in darkness

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The Duality of Silence

April 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2207 Views 2 Comments burden, duality, friend, poem, recompense, silence

Duality… Silence stirs a soul to wake, when day so quiet an ominous void awaits, as if the weight of

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Unrelenting, the Pendulum Swing

April 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1848 Views 2 Comments enigma, feeling, pendulum, poem, time, understanding

Where goes time to relent on its incessant nature, a respite from the ticking burden of its plight, its perception

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Echoes From So Long Ago

April 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2636 Views 2 Comments Echoes, humanity, imbalance, past, poem, spirituality

Through worlds I have come, my memories like echoes in the ether, remind me of my journey, as stars like

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The ‘Dark Age’ and What We Must Overcome

April 8, 2017April 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2616 Views 6 Comments 'dark age', dogma, overcome, poem, spirituality, understanding

We must overcome… Woven inexplicably into the fabric of life, is the knowing of good and right, what in action

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Joy and Profound Seeing

April 6, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2251 Views 4 Comments choices, epistle, joy, life, love, profound

Joy is in the heart, awaiting an excuse to impart its truth to the world, held back only by our

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Within, the Potential of Who I Will Become

April 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1657 Views 2 Comments become, life, poem, potential, simplicity, within

My tributaries flow with incessant pledge, nourish life and render every breath to keep life afloat, beating steps to experience

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My Penny Spent So Wrong

April 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2484 Views 6 Comments fleeing, new shore, Penny, poem, same shore, tillerman

A penny for the tillerman and through mists across the waters we glide, the water lapping loud against the hull,

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The Rise, a Beauteous Transformation

April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1871 Views 4 Comments beauty, life, poem, sunrise, transformation, wakening

Morning transformation… Silence pervades with deafening anticipation, and sun, still stuck behind a jagged horizon struggles to climb the beginning

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Questioning and Finding Balance

April 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2119 Views 2 Comments balance, epistle, learning, life, observance, questioning

I question so many things, it occurred to me I may be missing those things unfurling, and instead of questioning

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You Saved Me, and Save Me Still

April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2534 Views 3 Comments eternal, life, love, poem, saved, struggle

My first born child was lost at four months, a beautiful baby we named Kim. A random act of nature

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The Virtue of Patience

March 30, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2020 Views 2 Comments cycles, expectations, patience, poem, reward, torturous

Patience is a valued commodity when time plunders expectation, waiting, a torturous and invasive hindrance, as slow the steps to

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Autumn’s Introduction, a Morning Affront

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1827 Views 4 Comments autumn, chill, introduction, poem, shock, transformation

The Autumn chill now displaces Summer’s fading grace, as clouds all grey attest the change, and T-shirts, shorts and bare

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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Five – Acceptance

March 29, 2017 R J Schwartz 3725 Views 3 Comments 5 stages of grief, acceptance, healing, hope, renewal

Acceptance A strange finality The pieces fitting, although tenuously Looking back courageously Episodic moments occasionally Nothing like the used to

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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Four – Depression

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 R J Schwartz 2475 Views 1 Comment 5 stages of greif, depression, sadness, self-doubt

Depression The false hope of bargaining Selective targeting Made up marketing Anything Something to confound my wounded soul I’m in

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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Three – Bargaining

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 R J Schwartz 2953 Views 2 Comments 5 stages of grief, bargaining, loss, memories, sadness

Bargaining They say its comprehension An understanding or perception Strike a deal with someone Anyone, or possibly no one What

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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Two – Anger

March 29, 2017October 2, 2020 R J Schwartz 3228 Views 1 Comment 5 stages of grief, anger, loss, pain, suffering

Anger Deep seeded rage Surrounded by my enemies Taxing me mentally Questioning my identity No solutions or remedies Everyone talking

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Five Stages of Grief – Stage One – Denial

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 R J Schwartz 8210 Views 5 Comments 5 stages of grief, denial, loss, sadness

Denial It can happen to anyone Refusing to believe That which is there in front of me I’m choosing not

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Pain is Temporary, the Soul Infinite

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1873 Views 4 Comments loss, love, pain, poem, suffering, temporary

Truth is all that pain deserves to tell its story completely, for muddied waters cloud circumstance, and blame rarely a

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Infinite Scope…burgeoning life

March 27, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1703 Views 2 Comments beauty, burgeoning, life, nature, poem, potential

Upon the earth with delicate touch the sun does bless life with such passionate embrace, growth like surging, burgeoning glee,