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Holding Onto Sunshine

July 22, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1852 Views 2 Comments consoling, halcyon days, poem, sunlight, warmth, winter

Bleak and darkened days force minds to create the sunlight, and however we in cold restraint, from winter’s icy chill

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How to Find a Peace of Mind

July 22, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2151 Views 2 Comments love, mind, peace, poem, selfishness, sharing

Peace of mind … How shall I find my own expectations in another mind, find flow and drift in space

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Worthwhile Life

July 21, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2575 Views 6 Comments choices, life, love, poem, potential, worthwhile

Worthwhile life … Tis a lowly thought, to let rage form a hatred, to let hurt smother compassion, or let

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Silently in the Night

July 21, 2016July 21, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2256 Views 8 Comments imagination, ponder, reflections

Silently the night settles in and the world becomes still. Without fanfare, on soft cat-like paws, the night arrived and

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Crystal Brook

July 21, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2118 Views 8 Comments beauty, brook, crystal, flow, life, poem

The crystal brook emotes, in sibilant whispers, and the flow so clear its movement but an illusion of the sound.

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Last Few Moments

July 20, 2016September 10, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2771 Views 4 Comments flight, Heaven, life, love, poem, release

Last few moments … Diaphanous veils in gentle flight, caressed by warm and afferent breeze, upon the skin a pure

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The Fleeting Rose

July 20, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 6928 Views 4 Comments cycles, death, eternal, love, poem, Rose

Fleeting Rose…temporary within eternity The rose wilts, its petals curl in, and that fragrance sours to a bitter

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Two Sides

July 20, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2939 Views 6 Comments choice, life, poem, sides, Sin, soul

Tempted, drawn to consider, a life less lived, an opposite life of sin, just to see how the pages turn,

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The Prevalence

July 20, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2013 Views 2 Comments darkness, dreams, life, light, poem, struggle

The prevalence of darkness rims the periphery of sentience, always attributing malevolence to the undulations of human affairs, and I

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Battle Red

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2303 Views 2 Comments battle, death, egos, poem, pointless, waste

All along the ramparts eyes fixed upon a still distance, they await enemy lines approaching for that final assault; and

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What Lay Beneath

July 19, 2016September 27, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2001 Views 4 Comments beneath, extremes, flow, life, omniscience, poem

Beneath The tempest may thunder its way to attention, yet the aftermath is strewn with peaceful sighs, as life in

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Unrepentant…the controllers

July 19, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1891 Views 2 Comments blame, controllers, ego, failure, poem, unrepentant

Controllers … Unrepentant, those of singular sight, blinded by their own intrinsic light, who in the course of expounding their

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My Perch

July 19, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2253 Views 2 Comments ascension, mountain, poem, solace, spiritual, stillness

In stillness found, the summit of my mountain perch, high above the lowly thoughts of ego’s rhyme, the mutter

Epistle Poetry

Spiritual Song of My Heart

July 18, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3043 Views 10 Comments epistle, heart, love, soul, spirit, spiritual song

My spiritual song sends expressions of love, like ripples ~ The spiritual song of my heart is the pathway for

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Awakened Heart

July 18, 2016February 18, 2017 Surabhi Kaura 4605 Views 18 Comments dawn, Glow, heart, Rose, Sky, Whispers

Awakened Heart Here I sit at the feet of the Deity, the one who is centered in Peace; A Zen

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Aspiring Lies

July 18, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1629 Views 2 Comments ambition, aspiring, lies, poem, selfish, truth

Aspiring Lies … Nowhere do those cries

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I Am the Sum…

July 18, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 6383 Views 6 Comments darkness, learning, life, light, poem, wilderness

Like plains of vast wilderness, the darkness of my heart spreads out in quest, of containing all the refuse of

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The Precedent

July 17, 2016July 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2777 Views 6 Comments Bend, change, law, poem, precedent, truth

Once set, a precedent haunts reality with an iron fist, for we mere mortals can only know one step at

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Questions…

July 17, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2170 Views 4 Comments eternity, life, origins, poem, questions, stars

Questions … Although the stars profess to know, those secrets from which we are so removed, their whispers in softness

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The Spirit Knows All

July 16, 2016July 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2252 Views 6 Comments heart, life, poem, sanctity, spirit, summit

The trail narrowed to a line drawn in scrub, a sandy meandering water-less river, the incline sharper and more

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Those Taunting Voices

July 16, 2016January 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2355 Views 4 Comments deal, night, poem, sleep, spirits, voices

What calls me in the darkest night, a faint whisper, a stirring voice from where, that keeps me at

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Slumber

July 16, 2016July 16, 2016 John Hansen 3643 Views 14 Comments dreams, Night terrors, nightmares, sleep, slumber, terror

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A Thousand Farewells Across the Sea

July 16, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2102 Views 8 Comments love, poems, poetry, sailors, the sea

As the sea glittered bright in the late afternoon, the sun splashed the sky with orange light. Soon like a