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Opinionated

June 21, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2429 Views 6 Comments beliefs, learned, master, opinionated, poem, wisdom

Opinionated … I may admonish

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My Cynical View

June 20, 2016June 22, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2126 Views 2 Comments guile, poem, politicians, promises, questionable, truth

Imposing, this silk-suited, grey-haired chameleon, straight-backed, mouth a blur, a surreptitious smile just underpinning the guile and smooth tongued rhetoric,

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Swallow the World

June 20, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1920 Views 8 Comments choices, insatiable, lose, poem, swallow, world

It was never my intention to swallow

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Around This Bend In the Road

June 20, 2016June 22, 2016 Jamie Lee Hamann 1743 Views 3 Comments Bend, Childhood, Road, Wheels

of vision from road, an Elm tree shaking wind like me, with branched fingers pointing around this bend where lives

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Yesterday Forgotten

June 20, 2016February 19, 2017 Ruby Fuller 1972 Views 10 Comments Alzheimer's Disease, family, forgotten yesterday, heartbreaking sorrow, love

Yesterday forgotten … Red Rose When I come tomorrow, I’ll bring her a red rose He held her in his

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I Hate, I Love

June 20, 2016June 26, 2016 John Hansen 2713 Views 17 Comments equality, hate, kindness, love, peace, war

I Hate, I Love I started to write this poem when I was feeling really down and depressed. We had

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Absolution

June 20, 2016June 20, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2497 Views 8 Comments absolution, heart, hurt, judgement, poem, soul

Eventually, when hurt has run its all-consuming

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Just a Thought

June 19, 2016May 11, 2017 Nathan Bernardo 2329 Views 8 Comments awareness, confusion, illusion, memory, thought

Just a Thought It’s like wet ash when it sticks to the skin, a thought sticks in the mind once

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The Spring…rising life

June 19, 2016June 7, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2277 Views 4 Comments gratitude, life, rising, sate, secrets, spring

Rising up to meet the morning spring… And

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Weary Mind

June 19, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2309 Views 7 Comments answers, movement, poem, questions, reason, self

Deliver me far from reason, for it

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Patient

June 18, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2842 Views 4 Comments gloom, grey, poem, sun, winter, writing

As day infuses its unique deft touch,

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Our Short Walk

June 18, 2016November 15, 2016 Jamie Lee Hamann 2446 Views 3 Comments an existence, love, relationships, second start, short walk

Our Short Walk When first we met across the street, a

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Goin’ Down Louisiana Way

June 18, 2016September 30, 2016 Rasma Raisters 3125 Views 14 Comments bayou, jazz, louisiana, new orleans, poems, poetry

Louisiana Way Would love to go down Louisiana way, way down south to New Orleans. So I could take a

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A City Park in Seattle

June 18, 2016September 12, 2016 Jamie Lee Hamann 2655 Views 4 Comments beer, City Life, life, relationships, remembering, suburban

City Trove … Somewhere under a ragged bush a tall boy beer

Haiku Poetry

Mt. Rental Haiku

June 17, 2016September 12, 2016 Jamie Lee Hamann 3583 Views 8 Comments birth, harsh, living signs, Mountain Life, snow line, wild

Mt. Rental Haiku … Weathered old wood bench with painted rocks

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Nationalization through Regulation

June 17, 2016June 17, 2016 R J Schwartz 1847 Views 4 Comments government, regulate

America is the land of the free? Sorry but that’s not enough for me When government tries to nationalize The

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Revived

June 17, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2740 Views 6 Comments age, hope, love, poem, revived, transformed

Revived Aflutter, this heart, all crusted with disappointment, past like a stinging nettle, bound to flesh and reminding ill, yet

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Realise Life’s Dreams: an inspirational poem

June 17, 2016February 4, 2017 John Hansen 2296 Views 13 Comments accomplishments, bucket list, dreams, goals, life, life's dreams

We all have dreams and goals growing up, but how many do we actually pursue to fulfilment? Life is too

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Always Hope

June 16, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2504 Views 4 Comments circumstance, despair, hope, poem, stars, temporary

Hope No matter how deep despair, there is always a light above, even one single star, distant perhaps, but

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Emotions Flow

June 16, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2741 Views 2 Comments bliss, capacity, emotions, gratitude, poem, unrestrained

Emotions Flow The surge of emotion is like a wave breaking on an infinite shore, its rolling height then

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Breakup on Display

June 16, 2016 R J Schwartz 2037 Views 3 Comments break-up, crowd, Fight, relationship

The breakup High drama unfolding Story tonight at 10 A teaser trailer for current events The capture the real story Tensions

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Two-Faced Words

June 15, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2625 Views 4 Comments deceit, honesty, manipulation, poem, purpose, words

Two-faced Words are but the dripping of leaking

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Finding Place

June 15, 2016September 30, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1980 Views 2 Comments future, love, omniscience, poem, purpose, questions

Finding Place I lay within the folds of warmth, my shell of choice, and peer out toward the stars, their