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The Rise and Fall of Waves

June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 5842 Views 2 Comments cycles, majesty, poem, rise and fall, turbulence, waves

A giant wave rises to its peak and as that curved aqua stream in tightly woven strands comes down, a

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Confusion of Delusion, a Self-Destructive Malaise

June 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1684 Views 2 Comments alternate reality, comfort, confusion, delusion, poem, suffering

Embrace the truth, for it rules to overcome that part of us that seeks the comfort of delusion, the lies

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Political Poetry

So, You Want To Be An American Citizen?

June 21, 2018January 14, 2019 R J Schwartz 1561 Views 3 Comments American Citizenship, Becoming American, Citizen, Patriotic Poetry, RJ Schwartz

So You Want to be a Citizen? Stand in line and do the time The legal way to join the

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Distant Calls Within Eternity

June 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1667 Views 2 Comments distant calls, not alone, poem, seeking, voices, worlds unknown

Distant calls from worlds unknown, prick my ears to their errant beat, as if insistent, so indiscreet, and I cannot

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Mother Nature Makes the Rules

June 21, 2018 R J Schwartz 10005 Views 3 Comments mother nature, RJ Schwartz, storms, weather

Mother Nature makes the Rules Her naked water And undressed skies Show no fear from prying eyes Fertile plains Desert

Free Verse Poetry

Let’s Remember While We Can

June 20, 2018June 21, 2018 Rasma Raisters 1600 Views 4 Comments dreams, let's remember, love, old pictures, shooting stars, the past

Let’s Remember … Every wonder that comes our way, every day that means so very much, all the shooting stars

Epistle Political Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Deception of Those Who Rule

June 20, 2018January 19, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1785 Views 7 Comments deception, epistle, manipulation, media, propaganda, rulers

The travesty of media has, for a long time, robbed us of truth deserved, as bias and deliberate deception clouds

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

As I Walk the Path, My Senses Swoon

June 19, 2018June 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1670 Views 4 Comments nature's blooms, pie, poem, senses, sublime, wish

Sweet the nectar of blooms upon a breeze, delicate the redolent scent so pure and infused in every breath, to

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Beyond it All, There is Love

June 19, 2018June 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1549 Views 2 Comments acceptance, beyond, love, poem, struggle, understanding

Convey I must the joy of being, the pure breath of acceptance that underpins the seeing of reality’s breadth, its

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Peace That Life Affords

June 18, 2018June 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1653 Views 2 Comments explosions, kindness, life affords, peace, pent up anger, poem

How curt the reply from questioning the ire of a passer by, reacting all too much to life’s abrupt interpretations,

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Stop the World, I Need a Ruling – The Fight Over My Heart and Mind

June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 R J Schwartz 2016 Views 2 Comments cutting cords, double vision, Lapse of reasoning, RJ Schwartz, stop the world

Stop the world, I need a ruling I’m not lost; only confused A momentary lapse of reasoning When two and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

As Time Settles and We in Acceptance Afford

June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1583 Views 4 Comments acceptance, age, poem, retrospect, time settles, voice of reason

Days flow like gentle streams, trickling time over earth and stone, to follow paths meandering, to find the stillness of

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Our Mother, Her Kindness Ours to Value

June 18, 2018June 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1707 Views 2 Comments balance, kindness, mother nature, no intention, our teacher, poem

How life transcends us, our vastly limited views, and what is real within its rhyme, turns our limited views askew,

Haiku Poetry Rhyming Verse

Winter Creeps Up Unawares- a Poem and Haiku

June 17, 2018June 18, 2018 John Hansen 3978 Views 4 Comments chill, haiku poetry, Rhyming verse, seasons, winter

Winter Creeps Up Unawares – a Poem and Haiku An icy chill is in the air, Someone stole the Sun!

Inspirational Poetry Ode

An Ode to Hope, Our Last Stronghold

June 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2090 Views 2 Comments belief, hope, ode, poem, possibility, transformation

Hope is like a diaphanous cloud, pure against the blue of infinite possibility, yet, so fine an interlude between our

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Run, Run to Stay

June 17, 2018June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1970 Views 2 Comments experience, from change, from self, from time, poem, stay

Run, run, into the setting sun, past where time is done and beginnings are just passing thoughts, not aught to

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Being Centered in the Storm

June 17, 2018June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2277 Views 2 Comments centered, fate, insight with age, kindness and sharing, learning, poem

My beard gets longer, my mind stronger and life seems to relent on the avalanche of pain once dealt, or

Free Verse Poetry

Of Days Gone By

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Rasma Raisters 2794 Views 5 Comments danced, days gone, dreams, laughed, lived, memories

Days Gone by … We were so very young, in a time of great change, our hearts were pure and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Learn We Can and Must

June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1660 Views 4 Comments falling, getting up, looking to future, must learn, poem, truth

Where I fall, a shadow remains, to remind me of the reality that stormed my gates, and the causality that

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Finding the Peace, Finding Release

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1418 Views 2 Comments avoidance and denial, doubts, epistle, faith and gifts, finding release, proof

Dissuaded by the insistence of voices that resound like echoes in my memories, I often hesitate with those trials of

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Sweetly Sings Robin in the Tree by my Window

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2081 Views 6 Comments

Sweetly sings Robin in the tree by my window, and awakens me with her melodious song, little ones in nest

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Winter Write

June 16, 2018June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1767 Views 2 Comments creativity, freedom to write, gloom, poem, winter write, yearning for sun

Gone are the days of sun, the warmth of tender embrace, and clouds so free, their white sails across infinity’s

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

When Pain Subsides…

June 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1679 Views 3 Comments by our hand, choice, epistle, pain, understanding, wrongs

Expectant, the trials and tribulations of life, yet unexpected the extent of suffering we instill in our own lives, by