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Ode to the Darkness

March 24, 2018January 4, 2024 Chris Mills 1095 Views 14 Comments darkness, hope, light, memories, pain

Ode to the Darkness I sit at the window and watch

Contemporary/Alternative Poetry Poetry

No wind blows today my son

March 24, 2018September 8, 2018 EdF 2356 Views 3 Comments dying breath, Flag, heal wounds, no wind, soldier, winds blow

No wind blows today my son … But then father how does the flag move if not for the breezes

Free Verse

Images in My Mind

March 24, 2018 Rasma Raisters 1864 Views 7 Comments Childhood, friends, images, memories, poems, poetry, summertime

Images so many, flashing through my memory, rainbow colors – things that used to be. Looking through the images, now

Epistle Free Verse

A Moment in Della’s Life

March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1687 Views 4 Comments banyan tree, Della, learning, one moment, spiritual yearning, temple

She picked up a stone from the dusty path, and threw it over the water, skimming, bouncing like a tiny

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Even Storms Must End

March 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1826 Views 6 Comments frightened chidren, onshore gales, poem, storms, sun returns, thunder/lightning

Wind meanders through grassy hills and vales, dark clouds brooding as the chill prevails, as sun declines to shine this

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Tedious Path of Belief

March 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1876 Views 2 Comments biases, epistle, fresh thought, open-minded, path, tedious

We are slaves to our own beliefs, like a filter they apply their reasoning to every decision we make, each

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Winter or Spring

March 23, 2018August 14, 2018 Donald Loudon 2126 Views 8 Comments creatures, raindrops, rushing, sounds, wind, winter-spring

Winter or Spring … Rushing wind tickling vibrating leaves birds filtering from overloaded eaves Cloistered raindrops tippling down creating

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Eternal Love Born Within

March 23, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2196 Views 8 Comments beautiful soul, born within, Eternal love, eternity, Phyllis Doyle, spirit

Eternal Love Born Within … If ever there is a perfect love … Before I knew how kind and sweet

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Don’t be Fooled

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 Paul Neglia 2433 Views 5 Comments don't believe everything, fake prophets, False advertising

Don’t Be Fooled Faith in the process without promise, A novice misstep in righteous province Trust in “the man” is

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Within a Sentient Mind

March 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2240 Views 0 Comments new worlds, past future present, physical, poem, sentient, truth

Alone I am within my sentient mind, aside from the physicality of earthly life, as I wade through the choices

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Paths of Despair

March 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2788 Views 2 Comments balance, despair, epistle, loss, mourning, paths

Despair tinges life like a slow rotting fruit, each day a deeper collapse of flesh, an insidious spread of death

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Fallen Angels

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2805 Views 4 Comments demons, fallen angels, love, plight of man, poem, tug-of-war

Fallen angels line the streets, their ethereal glow like street lamps, crowded by a frosted, misty night, a luminous dark

Epistle Poetry

Word Traps

March 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1932 Views 2 Comments consequence, epistle, lose meaning, negative, repetitive, word traps

Words, like flighted birds, give freedom to our thoughts, yet we often use words repetitively and somehow lose their true

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Life Raft

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 Donald Loudon 1904 Views 6 Comments carnivorous, caves, fear, life, raft, unknown

Life Raft … Spoken of hardly known wasting forms of fear When in deep within those caves so

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Perspective Overdose

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 Paul Neglia 2189 Views 7 Comments addiction, Drugs, Loneliness, overdos, sadness

Perspective Overdose … No one of yet has developed a language or a lexis that confirms my point of view.

Free Verse Poetry

Life Leads Us On

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 Rasma Raisters 1808 Views 8 Comments Childhood, colors, life, nature, poems, poetry

Life Leads Us On … Days drift on and on, always something pushing them along, life like an express train

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Trials of a Ridged Mind

March 20, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1861 Views 2 Comments choices, circumstance, epistle, flexible, mind, ridged

Ridged minds stagnate life, flexible minds adapt and endure, seeking truth and reality’s yield, with an open-minded acceptance of possibility.

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Slow and Profound Deliverance

March 20, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1878 Views 2 Comments deliverance, learning, love, poem, responsibility, slow

In view of all the past mistakes, the slow and winding path I take, I can but admit for love’s

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Political Poetry

American Teen – Property of the State Machine

March 20, 2018January 14, 2019 R J Schwartz 1947 Views 2 Comments indoctrination, Political Machine, RJ Schwartz, useful idiots

The American Teen Property of the State Machine Subtle training, penetrating Blaming, defaming, and campaigning When they said educated It

Poetry Rhyming Verse Satire

The Inexplicable Power of Woman

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1831 Views 8 Comments guile, man, poem, power, satire, woman

A wry smile, a fluttered eye, sends a man to bumbling uncertainty, as a woman’s guile pervades every nerve and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Seasons, Like Changing Thoughts

March 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1658 Views 2 Comments changing, in awe, moods, mother, poem, seasons

The soothing rains cleanse the street, and silence bares the sighs of relief, as summer fades and the heat of

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Broken by You

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 2179 Views 6 Comments bad memory, Bad relationship, losing love, pain

Broken by You – Slam Bludgeoned by your verbal truncheon, My soul is shrunken by your dungeons Eruptions from my

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Refugee From The 1950s

March 19, 2018August 14, 2018 Donald Loudon 2640 Views 6 Comments Faithful, friends, Heaven, joy, pattern, shout

Refugee From The 1950s … Walking down a street so clear So safe and un corrupted Everything needed in life