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No Words to Say, Just Be

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2693 Views 10 Comments beauty, breeze, gloaming, night, poem, words

A dexterous touch, flesh tingling from the cool rush of air, as day falls slowly and shadows elongate, herald the

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Pointless Regret…a lull in a receptive mind

January 12, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2331 Views 10 Comments future, mistaken, poem, pointless, regret, Rose

Regret I hold like a wilting rose, pale and leached of all color, for what good is my piteous maudlin

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The Three Wise Men

January 10, 2017January 10, 2017 John Hansen 3051 Views 9 Comments courage, Gandhi, Jesus, three wise men, wisdom, word

The Three Wise Men The fires that burn and scorch my skin, And raging furnace stoked within, The fiends that

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Needless in the Wake of Love

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2405 Views 4 Comments beauty, conflict, heart, moments, needless, poem

Needless conflict in love… Each nuance tolls like a temple bell, each sensation like a swan skating on a mirrored

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Deliverance by Our Own Hand

January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1770 Views 2 Comments deliverance, destiny, ignorance, master, poem, self

I wait for deliverance, as if time commends, but what force does ensue if not myself, my own expectations; so

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Artistic Hands, Innate

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2692 Views 2 Comments artistic, expression, innate, life, poem, soul

Innate Talent… Through fingers of delicate touch, hands so dexterous tis magic to the eyes, and a heart stops to

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One Step From Dreams

January 8, 2017January 8, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2100 Views 4 Comments creative thought, new perspective, poem, routine, step, time

New step, original thought… Occupied with distraction life flies by, but has an original thought ever pried open a mind,

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Contesting Reality with Ownership

January 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1888 Views 2 Comments connection, contesting, nature, perfection, poem, will

World without end, beauty without dissension, is nature’s way; life and death but cycles within a vast and infinite echo

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From Ominous Heights

January 7, 2017January 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2527 Views 4 Comments delusion, expectation, fatal, heights, ominous, poem

Expectations rise to unrealistic heights, when hope inspires beyond its plush soft pillow, and soaring into its manifest being, it,

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I Turned a Stone, just to see…

January 6, 2017January 6, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1900 Views 4 Comments life, peace, stone, storms, turned, understanding

A Stone Turned… I turned a stone, to see which side is smoother, and behold the side that faces sky

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But a Leaf, in Mother’s Nurture

January 4, 2017January 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2267 Views 2 Comments compassionate giving, joy, life cycle, nurture, poem, purpose

Nurture, in the cycle of life… A leaf in flight, released from life its purpose done, sees the world for

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Not Part of Life Our Choice

January 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1691 Views 2 Comments apathy, life, lost, not part, poem, restore

Not Part of Life…a sin World without hope, hope without heart, heart without possibility, and possibility without start; all that

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If I Were Free from Humanity

January 4, 2017January 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1805 Views 2 Comments all life, harmony, hatred, humanity, poem, struggle

If I were cloud in diaphanous state, I’d climb to the edge of the world, where light and darkness interplay,

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Sated Life in Antiquity

January 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1879 Views 4 Comments antiquity, at peace, love, poem, refection, shallow waters

Antiquity, at peace… I seek shallow waters, still and imbued with light, the sky refection all I see, the gloaming

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Accepting Who We Are, in Truth…delusion’s bleak attire

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1844 Views 4 Comments bleak, choice, delusions, poem, potential, truth

Delusion’s bleak attire… Flights of fancy save our minds, from realities we prefer blind, yet illusions last only as long

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Ideals That Matter….my Paradigm

December 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1848 Views 4 Comments compassion, forgiveness, happiness, kindness, love, poem

I can but be who I am, and often people see heart and ascribe weakness, yet love is more powerful

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Love’s Guiding Light

December 29, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2280 Views 2 Comments guiding, light, love, path, peril, poem

Guiding light… At least by light, the travail of love’s path, candle-lit and in spite of worry laden roads of

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Self-Righteous Rhetoric

December 28, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2649 Views 2 Comments belief, perception, poem, rhetoric, righteous, truth

Righteous thoughts invite question, knowing all a fantasy of ignorance, as we in learned stance face a world of contention,

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Living in Beauty’s Eye

December 27, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1758 Views 2 Comments accept, beauty, eye, life, poem, seek

Beauty’s eye is never sated, as love resides not in any container, and life is one glorious ride, with no

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Inspired…each moment unwritten

December 26, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1974 Views 2 Comments beauty, change, day / night, poem, potential, unwritten

Each day…unwritten Inspired by the fall of day, I invite the night to glittering eternity, to soothe my burdened brow

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Being Free within the Perceived Limits of Living

December 26, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1563 Views 2 Comments free, living, love, poem, spiritual, thoughts

Free your mind from oppression, for it does not have to find purchase in the one place we are free,

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When the Bow Breaks

December 25, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1929 Views 4 Comments accepting responsibility, breaks, change, darkness, poem

And when the bow breaks, when support is no longer attainable, all comes down, cradle and all: a life made,

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The Artist’s Colors, the Poet’s Words

December 23, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2336 Views 4 Comments art, color & words, imagination, meaning, poem, transfer

Colors move with a weightless grace, infusing a canvas with layered rich refrain, each hue a measure of intention’s gain,