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Love Implores But Without Sincerity

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1422 Views 4 Comments deceiving love, desperation, games, poem, remain a monk, sincerity

Broken, unprepared to play the game, too much effort for too little gain, the love most people offer, and most

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The States of Love

August 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2331 Views 4 Comments epistle, romantic, soul, spiritual love, states of love, transform

Tis not love that transforms us, it’s love’s potential, for within those veils of layered truths lurks much pain as

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Another Enigma

August 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2114 Views 2 Comments benefit, enigma, epistle, influence, judgement, responsibility

How far does one stretch to accommodate the world, to still fit within the parameters we feel best apply, and

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Loves Content

August 11, 2018August 11, 2018 Vincent Moore 1770 Views 4 Comments bloom, content, deep, love, poetry

Is love possibly like a wilted rose trying it’s

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Love is by No Measure, its Freely Given

August 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1579 Views 2 Comments balance in relationships, freely, giving love, measure, poem, unconditional

Bereft of the nurture I once new, without the heart of love I once construed, I have found my giving

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I Wish I Were, But I Am

August 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1959 Views 4 Comments belonging, death, perspectives, poem, understanding eternity, wish

I wish I were a leaf, swept up in the warm embrace of a breeze, and from there what I

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Changes in the Sky….Foreboding

August 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1515 Views 4 Comments foreboding, human greed, nature imbalance, poem, seeking equilibrium, weather changes

It’s snowing in the nearby hills, a symptom of our earthly ills, and hail just unleashed a thunderous wrath, our

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In the False Name of Love

August 9, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1851 Views 4 Comments compromise, false name, fulfilling needs, love pretense, poem, symbiosis

With trepidation I walk the paths of invitation, coaxed by those who need, perhaps to feed, and I the prey

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One Step from Disaster

August 9, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1442 Views 6 Comments disaster, formats, lost files, manuscripts, mistaken deletion, poem

One step from disaster, one moment of clarity passed, one realization there is no going back, one crystal clear empty

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Sweet Memories of You

August 9, 2018August 10, 2018 Rasma Raisters 2159 Views 6 Comments love, poems, poetry, sweet memories

Time has flown, like birds taking wing, I know that soon, autumn will bring back sweet memories, of different times.

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Upon the Briny Sea

August 9, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2061 Views 4 Comments briny sea, Fishing, meant to be, nature's moods, poem, seaman's place

The lapping against the bow is like a watery metronome, slapping, resounding as time dictates the swell, and gulls up

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Lighthouse Sonnet Series

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3205 Views 10 Comments guiding light, lighthouse, my love, night, Phyllis Doyle, seaworthy

Lighthouse Sonnet Series Cheerful Lighthouse My Love – A Lighthouse Sonnet Such fond memories oft come o’er me still Where

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Summer, When I was a Lad

August 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1662 Views 4 Comments adventure, bush land, lad, mates, poem, summer holdidays

The bush, my wonderland, filled with creatures and worlds to explore, creeks and tadpoles, lizards and snakes all abide this

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Old Gramps and the horses

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 EdF 1986 Views 3 Comments evening breeze, hay wagon, horses, Old Gramps, river fields, summer's end

Old Gramps and the horses … Old Gramps and the horses . He walked bent over at the waist most

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Staring Down Eternity

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1459 Views 2 Comments alien, eternity, knowledge, poem, the plan, time & space

If I could just stare down eternity, and with certainty grasp the plan, what a soul earns in time and

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Lost Boy

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 Vincent Moore 2053 Views 2 Comments abuse, anger, Boy, dreams, lost, poetry

Lost Boy … A child lost

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As the World Drowns in Debt

August 7, 2018January 19, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1549 Views 2 Comments capitalism, covert leadership, epistle, oppression, Wealth, world in debt

The truth trickles for the human collective like a viscous syrup, ever so slowly dripping into the mainstream of common

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What Lies Hidden Beneath

August 7, 2018 R J Schwartz 2430 Views 4 Comments beneath, creature, sea monster, undersea

What lies hidden beneath… Hidden beneath this tiny craft Alone on the great big sea There’s certainty in your eyes

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Tis Not the Muse at All

August 7, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1530 Views 2 Comments epistle, healing, imbalance within, muse, spark within connection, writer's block

It is not a muse that leaves us, abandons us when words cease to rise, it is our connection with

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The Dance

August 7, 2018August 7, 2018 Vincent Moore 1665 Views 2 Comments bodies, Clay, heat, poetry, sensuality

As we dance silently … Our bodies touch, I feel your heat on my chest and your scent arrest’s me

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Dream Weaver

August 7, 2018September 8, 2018 Vincent Moore 3793 Views 1 Comment Dreaming, eternity, poetry, senses, tired

I beg of you dream weaver …

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The Tent Boxing Troupe

August 7, 2018 John Hansen 1821 Views 10 Comments boxing, boxing troupe, fighting, tent boxing, traveling show

The Tent Boxing Troupe “Step up, step up Tent boxing’s the game, If you can fight, Come make your name.

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Those Eternal Eyes

August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1543 Views 2 Comments eternal eyes, expectations, judgement, learning facets/lives, my humanity, poem

The eyes of the eternal stare relentlessly into my soul, as if I am tissue paper, a diaphanous mold without