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Just Another Summer Day, Reprieve

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1816 Views 4 Comments bird life, burden, heat, poem, summer, vines & fruit

Pale green tendrils like slender curling fingers, hold with stoic strength the burgeoning vines, trailing bows and fence like arms

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Prisoners of War

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Paul Neglia 3355 Views 7 Comments hate, perserverance, prison, torture, war

Prisoners of War II. P.O.W. When mortars discharged, I could see all the morsels, The tendrils that swiftly divided

Free Verse Poetry

A Morning’s Sweet Bliss

January 30, 2018January 31, 2018 Anjana 1730 Views 8 Comments birds, blooms, DEWDROPS, gift, Golden, morning, sunlight, wind

(Fond memories of the beauty of early mornings back home in India) A MORNING’S SWEET BLISS… The first streak

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Emoting Life’s Anxiety

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1752 Views 4 Comments emoting, expression, human understanding, love & kindness, moods, poem

Emotions are like the weather, often unpredictable, in extremes and often triggered by low pressure systems, when rain we might,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Within Reality, Our Choices

January 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2469 Views 3 Comments delusions, perceptions and belief, poem, potential, protecting the persona, reality

A temporal view at best, our perceptions of reality, the causality of the paths we create, in response to belief

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

In the End, Honesty

January 29, 2018January 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2136 Views 3 Comments breakups, change, honesty, poem, truth, unfinished business

What curtains fall before the last act is done, and plots left undone leave questions, as these can cause much

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Would You Care To Remember?

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 Anjana 1870 Views 4 Comments brotherhood, care, combat, conscience, hatred, love, remember

WOULD YOU CARE TO REMEMBER??? For once, would you care to remember our lives in the more

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Social Stigma

January 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2266 Views 2 Comments compliance, embarrassment, judged wanting, poem, rejected, social

The flurry of incoming thoughts, swept away his complacency, perhaps his confidence was not all he thought it was; and

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Beyond the Candle Flame

January 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2030 Views 8 Comments candle, change, gathering clouds, Greed, poem, world

In repose I watch the candle flicker, the time slowly fritter away, as if in a malaise of fallen dreams,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Nature of Causality

January 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2108 Views 2 Comments causality, learning in life, life a gift, perspective, poem, truth

The flow so endlessly uncertain, the undulations so extreme, perspective in radical rhyme-less change, distorting all and dreams, and life

Free Verse Poetry

Thundering Hoofs and Four Horsemen

January 27, 2018January 27, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2159 Views 6 Comments death, famine, four horsemen, pestilence, thundering hoofs, war

Thundering Hoofs … Hear the thundering hoofs and the four horsemen, Mounted on steeds of white, red, black, and pale,

Free Verse Poetry

My String of Words

January 27, 2018February 18, 2018 Anjana 2582 Views 4 Comments emerald waters, flowing rivers, red rose, string of, touching hearts, words

MY STRING OF WORDS…. Through the vivifying eyes of imagination I see, words floating royally on red rose

Poetry Rhyming Verse

To Find an Old Path at Washoe Lake in October (2017)

January 27, 2018January 28, 2018 Jamie Lee Hamann 2386 Views 3 Comments Autumn Path

1. In Autumn walked my Labrador on shore of Washoe Lake where Manzanita blooms reactivate the smell of former rooms

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Come Take my Hand

January 27, 2018January 30, 2018 Rasma Raisters 5753 Views 2 Comments diamonds, eternity, hands, laughter, love, poetry

Come Take My Hand Take my hand, walk through this world with me, you know there’s most anything I’d do

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

I Am Every Woman and Man – A Living Manifesto

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 R J Schwartz 1978 Views 1 Comment manifesto, RJ Schwartz

Manifesto – a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer I am Every woman and

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Words with Wings

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2081 Views 6 Comments kindness, live in the present, love, poem, positive life, wings

When you feel beaten, when life shows its upper hand, the score is against you, nothing left to command, just

Humor Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Have No Voice For Song – But I Sing Along

January 26, 2018March 21, 2018 R J Schwartz 2154 Views 7 Comments audience of one, bathroom singing, RJ Schwartz, singing in the shower, song

I have no voice for song My words headstrong With a powerful message But they just come out wrong

Free Verse Poetry

Abandoned

January 26, 2018January 27, 2018 Anjana 1920 Views 6 Comments

ABANDONED AT OLD AGE….. A dimly lit sterile room amply doused with a powerful disinfectant, a dingy bed and

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Futility of Negativism

January 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1893 Views 0 Comments epistle, futility, judgement, negativism, no responsibility, victim

Futile, the convincing of resolute negativity, for the soul learns not to be compassionate in order to rise to blame,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The World Cannot Change, Without Us Changing First

January 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1737 Views 2 Comments change, epistle, lies and deceit, love, one world government, politics

We can’t instantly change what took so long to create, but we can influence how people think, by example, and

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

What a Simple Dove Can Teach Us

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2376 Views 2 Comments assimilation, awareness, dove, epistle, freedom, humanity & imbalance

The flighted dove knows not its beauty, aloft in freedom its pure understanding, and in survival it is drawn to

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Hurt and Fear in Our Lives

January 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2180 Views 4 Comments epistle, fear, human learning, hurt, insecurity, love

Hurt echoes in a mind far longer than joy, and like a weighted cover it dulls life, attaches itself to

Poetry Romantic Poetry

A Lullaby For My Daughter

January 24, 2018January 27, 2018 Anjana 2701 Views 10 Comments Daughter, love, lullaby, night, sleep

A Lullaby For My Daughter A LULLABY FOR MY DAUGHTER……. The sun has retired to his far away abode