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Doctrines of Non-Compliance

June 4, 2016June 5, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2133 Views 2 Comments being, belief, compliance, epistle, faith, God, history, morality, purpose, religions, truths

From early beginnings man has sought a higher

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We Appeased, and Me

June 4, 2016November 13, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2550 Views 6 Comments afraid, dreams, experiences, knowing, pain, path

We Appeased And so he rose up to himself, that potential in wait, and with shoulders back ascended the walls

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The Gleaning

June 4, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2213 Views 2 Comments essence, experience, gleaning, journey, learning, paths, poem, realization, spirit, troubles

Sure, this speck of infinite life, a glimmer

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Together Always in Spirit Only

June 4, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2485 Views 8 Comments abiding love, eternity, spirit only, spiritual, together always, twin souls

Together always, but only in spirit, he was there for her, for so long, so many life times, in spirit,

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Darkest Deepest Pit

June 4, 2016June 4, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2280 Views 10 Comments darkness, deepest pit, dramatic poetry, nothingness, spiritual guide, through the darkness

Darkest deepest pit. Memories of times past lay withered and faded in the old trunk. She picks them up, one

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Played Out Passion

June 4, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2356 Views 6 Comments aftermath, beginnings, bliss, havoc, indulgence, love, passion, path, peril, poetry, reality, romance

Passion Love’s tedious front, a minefield, a pitted winding path of barbed stones and ragged peaks, under glorious skies and

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Seven Times

June 4, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2128 Views 2 Comments alone, breakup, consideration, future, lost love, poem, rejection, seven

Seven Times Seven times you asked, and seven times the silent reply held, the tongue cannot abide the lie,

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My Chamber Dark

June 3, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2001 Views 6 Comments book, chamber, demons, reading, shadows, taunting

In my private room where a fire brims,

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Illusory Superiority

June 3, 2016February 24, 2017 R J Schwartz 2127 Views 2 Comments abilities, personalities, superiority

Illusory Superiority Overestimated abilities Enhanced personality Incomparable qualities Not what you see But what I say instead An

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Visions of Ancestral Lands – Woven Tapestry

June 2, 2016September 23, 2022 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2651 Views 8 Comments ancestral lands, free verse, our land, poem, visions of beauty, woven tapestry

Visions of Ancestral Lands … Visions of Ancestral lands, a woven tapestry spread over Mother Earth. Ancestral lands, how long

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What Some May Know

June 2, 2016November 9, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2197 Views 4 Comments Akashic, future, infinite, knowledge, open heart, outpouring

What Some May Know What pours from

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Struggling Light

June 2, 2016November 13, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1783 Views 2 Comments darkness, haunted, hope, light, poem, struggle

Struggling Light Despite the light, that glimmers

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My Dummy

June 2, 2016November 13, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2961 Views 4 Comments addiction, consolation, discomfort, memory, pacifier, poem

My Dummy Where oh where is

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Unrepentant

June 2, 2016November 12, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2296 Views 2 Comments beauty, chill, choices, dull, memory, pane

Nature’s scowl Rattle my window, chilled

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Glimmer of your Shine

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Melissa Hougard 3192 Views 14 Comments Glimmer, Loneliness, poem, Regrets, sad, secrets

I only want to see… the glimmer of your shine. Would you hear me while you drown in

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Little Girls Won’t Tell

June 2, 2016November 9, 2016 Ruby Fuller 2132 Views 12 Comments child molested, evil heart, little girls, nobody listened, sister safe, solemn vow

Little Girls Won’t Tell Nobody listened Child molested once again. Nobody listened, Not even a friend. The father whispers, ”

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An Unwanted Rhyme

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1860 Views 6 Comments breakup, lost, love, pain, poem, prevail, rhyme, survive, understanding, unfulfilled

All I am, is with your heart, and

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Reprieve

June 2, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2539 Views 2 Comments delight, dreams, momentary, poem, praise, relief

Reprieve The sun in morning touch aspires to eclipse the

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What Children See

June 2, 2016November 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2346 Views 2 Comments child, hope, perspective, poem, sight, simplicity

Children I consider life and all its secrets,

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Mount Rainier Majestic Monument to Her Dead

June 1, 2016August 23, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2550 Views 4 Comments burning fire, dead, Great White Mountain, majestic monument, Mount Rainier, Tahoma

Mount Rainier Mount Rainier, Tahoma, why did you take them, why do you still keep those you claimed? They

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Who We Are…

June 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2169 Views 6 Comments direction choices, essence, failure, life, paths, poem, soul, success, who

And who do I become, if not for who

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Tempest

June 1, 2016November 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3236 Views 2 Comments darkness, lightning, poem, rain, storm, tempest

Tempest Tempest roar and thunder brood, grumble clouds and light subdued,

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Pen for Hire

June 1, 2016September 15, 2016 John Hansen 3285 Views 12 Comments fiction, for hire, freelance writing, poetry, writing