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Epistle Poetry

Beauty’s Key to Understanding

July 27, 2016August 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1729 Views 2 Comments beauty, hope, key, perspective, poem, understanding

Beauty’s Key to Understanding … It’s all about perspective… Can beauty be a step beyond the grey mundane world of

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Serendipitous

July 27, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2504 Views 9 Comments beauty, love, miracle, poem, re-found, serendipitous

Serendipitous this tryst, this bumping into bliss, perchance upon a street, to meet that one soul that eludes even dreams.

Epistle Poetry Rhyming Verse

Kindness, an Unforeseen Distraction

July 27, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1703 Views 2 Comments harm, justify, kindness, morality, narcissist, poem

Without reservation, without remorse, many plunder life and its course, to furnish needs and wants, despite the damage they create

Poetry Rhyming Verse

No Slumber Tonight…my CPAPs gone!

July 27, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3326 Views 10 Comments broken, CPAP, deprived, dog, no slumber, poem

No Slumber Tonight…my CPAPs gone! Sweet blissful sleep, I know not thee, the dog did munch my CPAP machine, and

Free Verse Humor Poetry

I Dare Ya!

July 27, 2016February 4, 2017 John Hansen 4669 Views 24 Comments boys, Chickens, childhood memories, Dare, friends, risk

“I Dare Ya!” My friend taunts. I dread those words, A kid can’t refuse. “Give it a go” He

Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Wait for Love

July 27, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2346 Views 2 Comments lost, love, poem, pretense, trapped, wait

I wait for love … Through traps and stolen hearts…. So prone to the words espoused to entreat the

Free Verse

History…..Lost

July 26, 2016 R J Schwartz 1559 Views 3 Comments ancient, civilization, history, keepers, men

The shifting planetary tides, whether sand or waves or soil; they make history Hiding precious moments in their ever-growing layers

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Rose…the name of love

July 26, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2733 Views 4 Comments beauty, love, name, poem, red, Rose

Vibrant Bloom, Rose…the name of love Blood red, velvet layered plumes, curled in symmetry’s loving loom, enticing petals, opened to

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Trigger… to hatred and harm

July 25, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3530 Views 12 Comments anger, demons, hatred, life, poem, trigger

Trigger…to hatred and harm How quickly a mind turns to hatred, one stroke of discourtesy the trigger, one disagreement a

Poetry Rhyming Verse

As Light Dictates

July 25, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2398 Views 6 Comments dictates, freedom, light, not evil, poem, shadow

Light dictates … Attune to light, as its very nature to shed truth upon life is without degree, an enlightening

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Winds of Love

July 25, 2016August 30, 2016 EdF 2150 Views 6 Comments abiding love, invisible love, poem, unending love, winds

Winds of love … I will always wonder at the winds for are they not the cleanser of the soul

Free Verse Poetry

The Inequity of Opinion

July 25, 2016July 25, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2313 Views 8 Comments arrogance, bias, inequity, opinion, poem, truth

The Inequity of Opinion … Opinions are simply ideas in response to questions, they are never definitive, as the answers

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Looking for a Soul

July 24, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1788 Views 8 Comments head, heart, hiding, just me, poem, soul

Looking for a Soul Where sits the soul, amid this blood and bone, this precarious flesh so prone, to harm

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Forsaken

July 24, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2181 Views 2 Comments amend, balance, life, nature, poem, sins

Come suckle upon this teat of life, this giving nectar of sentient sustenance, and when you imbibe its reviving plight,

Epistle Poetry

What Transforms….accepting the Self

July 24, 2016September 9, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1907 Views 6 Comments happiness, lies, life, poem, truth, what

What transforms … What inspires a thirsty mind is change, the imbibing of the new, and knowledge leads us to

Epistle Poetry

Belief Without Purpose

July 23, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1952 Views 4 Comments belief, difference, hope, peace, poem, war

Holding fast to that tenuous thread that tethers us to a world in crisis, hope alone seems all that’s left,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Love’s Intention

July 23, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2203 Views 2 Comments deceit, love, needs, poem, potential, selfish

A heart cannot determine love, to be deceit or joyous giving, the mind alone has that sight in living; and

Free Verse Poetry Song Lyrics

But Nothing’s Gonna Change My World

July 23, 2016July 24, 2016 John Hansen 5935 Views 8 Comments across the universe, meditate, song lyrics, The Beatles

Inspiration for this Poem This poem “But Nothing’s Gonna Change My World” is my interpretation of The Beatles song “Across

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Beguiled…

July 23, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2143 Views 4 Comments ache, beguiled, pleasure, poem, sexy, woman

She moved as if the ebb and flow of waves within did turn her hips in sway and sin, her

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Embrace of Being

July 23, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2401 Views 2 Comments cycles, eternity, feast, life, poem, unwritten

Embrace of Being … Awestruck I remain, eternity’s fabric a dark resonant flame, a regurgitating cycled resolve, from dust to

Poetry Rhyming Verse

the Atomic Desert

July 22, 2016 R J Schwartz 7052 Views 4 Comments atomic, nuclear, uranium, wasteland

the Atomic Desert Widespread destruction Collapse of civilization Premeditated extinction Planned extermination Warped metal, rusted metal Melted glass, stained glass

Free Verse Poetry

Through the Weave

July 22, 2016July 22, 2016 Melissa Hougard 2160 Views 9 Comments life, motherhood, purpose, weave, worthiness

I climb through the weave of my life, contemplating the complexities of my purpose, knowing deep down, I

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Love Does Rise

July 22, 2016July 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1971 Views 2 Comments cycles, doubts, love, nature, poem, sorrow

Like willows bend to meet the breeze on sullen days when nature speaks. And too must we on fleeted wing,