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As the Words Cease…What Then?

November 7, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1744 Views 4 Comments finished, next, poem, sadness & joy, words cease, writer

With a persistent endeavor, words conclude and a work sits idle, an earnest yearning to be viewed, and the author

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Something About Sunday

November 7, 2016 Melissa Hougard 2384 Views 10 Comments calm, family, peaceful, poem, quiet, Sunday

Sunday… There’s something about Sunday a peaceful feeling in the air… lackadaisical the sky holds a certain kind of blue…

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Memory of Dreams

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 EdF 1868 Views 10 Comments bare shoulders, memories, piano music, poetry, romance, woman

The piano danced quietly at the end of the paintings on her fingertips yet I was enriched by distraction like the

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Perceptions Endless

November 6, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2277 Views 4 Comments controlling, distracted, perceptions, poem, reality, truth & delusion

Reality is a mirror maze of reflections and delusions, and it would take smashing just about every mirror to find

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This Dark Consistent Dream

November 6, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1579 Views 2 Comments consistent, disconnected, dream, life, poem, unresolved

What is this stream, this questioning dream that fills my nights, always displaced always not right, and feel as I

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Nostalgia

November 6, 2016January 25, 2017 Anjana 2639 Views 12 Comments beauty, monsoon rain, nature

Raindrops The last beam of twilight dwindles darkening the long corridors,

Epistle Poetry

Spiritual Lantern Carrier

November 6, 2016November 6, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3801 Views 4 Comments epistle, healing, lantern carrier, light, love, spiritual

Spiritual Lantern Carrier For many years I have considered myself to be a spiritual lantern carrier. Does that mean

Creative Writing Memoir Poetry Rhyming Verse

Magical Faerie Ring

November 6, 2016March 16, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2536 Views 4 Comments faerie, friend, magical, mound, spiritual, stone circle

Magical Faerie Ring There is a magical place I often visit Upon the little mountain just behind my home

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Fighting Instead of Living

November 5, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2377 Views 2 Comments competition, fear, fighting instead, living, paradigm, poem

Fighting instead of betterment… Too much is rarely said, as if in fear of tomorrow we must be fed, and

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The Alpine Village

November 5, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2486 Views 2 Comments Alpine village, beautiful, glacial water, green, morning, poem

Trees bent in perfect lines as winds embraced every leaf and bow, and the valley so green wore a mask

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The Pure Evil of Violence

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1721 Views 4 Comments heinous crime, life sentence, poem, rape, torture, violence

Why must we read of such sickening violence, such unthinkable acts of cruelty and violation? Because the world is filled

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The Phantom Lover

November 5, 2016 Rasma Raisters 1951 Views 6 Comments gardens, love, moonlight, phantom lovers, poems, poetry

How many times had Lilly not stood, at the garden gate of the biggest mansion in town. She often wandered

Epistle Poetry

A More Meaningful Existence

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2070 Views 4 Comments change, epistle, love, peace, within, world

What say you to peace, and what would you do to acquire it, perhaps voice an opinion, hold a placard,

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The World Could Be Different

November 5, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2099 Views 8 Comments change, different, hatred, love & compassion, poem, world

Kindness is never enough in a world with so much hatred, as we all bare that malicious seed within us,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Want to Be .. Me!

November 4, 2016February 4, 2017 John Hansen 1972 Views 10 Comments acceptance, boys and girls, equality, gender, gender stereotypes, sexuality

I Want to Be .. Me I Want to Be .. Me I want to be a princess With tiara

Epistle

The Mark of a Good Writer

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1935 Views 14 Comments art, connection, epistle, expression, good writer, heart & soul

A Good Writer Isn’t Born, He or She is Made… Expression in any genre is a miraculous thing; we all

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Fortune is a Fickle Friend

November 3, 2016 Tony DeLorger 6334 Views 4 Comments beliefs, choices, consequences, fickle, fortune, poem

Fortune is a fickle friend, and what defines our life in one moment, can unseat us in another, for luck

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As Life Sighs with Gratitude…the rain forest

November 2, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1814 Views 2 Comments gratitude, life & death, poem, rain, rain forest, sighs

As life sighs…. nature sighs…. Violets grew in abundant mass, like burgeoning clouds over mild steeps, their colors such contrast

Epistle

The Greatest Country on Earth? I Think Not

November 2, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2918 Views 32 Comments Clinton, Corruption, country, epistle, Trump, USA

I love the American people, and all I have found experiencing the country and connecting on-line, is warmth, acceptance and

Epistle Poetry

Moving Forward

November 2, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1960 Views 0 Comments change, fear, forward, moving, poem, stagnation

Forward steps are fraught with fear, the unknown always a doubtful, ominous path, yet stagnation is our plight should we

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Facing a New Day’s Sun

November 2, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1994 Views 0 Comments facing, future, new day, past, poem, unencumbered

Shallow the waters underfoot, the silt a mist of unforgiving time now spent, robs the clarity and thick that glutinous

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Existence, Never-Ending

November 1, 2016January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1683 Views 0 Comments existence, never-ending, poem, time & space, weave, worlds

She spun that twine with deft fingers all aligned to procure a line so strong, that when the world was

Epistle Poetry

Getting Back Up and Facing Life

November 1, 2016November 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2399 Views 3 Comments epistle, get up, life, poem, positive, trials

Facing Life with a Smile… For the fallen, desperate, disconnected, life can be a drawn out series of suffering and