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A Peace of My Choosing

September 16, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1602 Views 4 Comments abyss, choices, peace, periphery, poem, potential

I wander the periphery, the edge between earth and abyss, and wonder how sure my footing is, a fall of

Dear Mr President…I Live in Australia…and Thank God for That!

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1955 Views 21 Comments live in Australia, narcissist, president, racist, satire, sexist

(Unless you’re the President, I wouldn’t take this too seriously. If you do then I guess we just have to

Poetry Political Poetry Rhyming Verse

Living in a Surveillance State

September 13, 2018January 14, 2019 R J Schwartz 2882 Views 5 Comments always watching, big brother, Deep State, RJ Schwartz, surveillance state

Living in a surveillance state All the things we’ve grown to hate Run by players called ‘Deep State’ Big Brother

Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Pray for Dawn

September 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1984 Views 2 Comments demons, fear, flickering fire, ghoulish enterties, poem, pray for dawn

Never the spite of a cold-blooded night shall bring me down from fire’s light, still the heart in anguish, or

Halloween Poetry Rhyming Verse

Waiting on Halloween – Lucid Dreams With Strangest Themes

September 12, 2018 R J Schwartz 2645 Views 8 Comments halloween, lucid dreams, RJ Schwartz, ufo, zombies

My lucid dreams have the strangest themes Drawn from far and near and in-between Plus oddities slipping through the seams

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Frugal Mind Awry

September 11, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1694 Views 4 Comments delusions, fear of loss, frugal mind, poem, self-reliance, sharing

The frugal plays of minds all wrapped in self-displays contracted by their own dismay when life awry does curb their

Poetry Rhyming Verse

You Changed…So Will I

September 11, 2018September 11, 2018 Paul Neglia 1906 Views 10 Comments bullying, Don't belittle me, Egotistical people, empty words, ranting

As a poet I’m straight forward … Ever meet that person who, when they get an ounce of power, they

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Another Fine Spring Morn

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2356 Views 8 Comments action, cat and dog sleeping, fine spring, morning, poem, warmth

Incandescent the filtered light of morn, refracted through sky and glass, as delicate the sway of curtains sheer, softening the

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Cosmic Wheels

September 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2109 Views 2 Comments cosmic wheels, eternity, human, meaning, questions, unknowable

Cosmic wheels turn with a silent determination, the machine of life’s rise and fall ad infinitum, and vast the plays

Rhyming Verse Satire

Harold Is Persistent, If Nothing Else

September 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1943 Views 5 Comments annoyance, argue, Harold/God, lessons, poem, soliloquies, warnings

Placed in sight, strategically, my attention stubbornly averted out of principle, this niggling conscious mind alerted to my damning misdemeanor,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Construed Belief

September 9, 2018September 9, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2176 Views 4 Comments archaic belief, construed belief, darkness, dogma, lies, poem

Not he, the purveyor of a hatred dark, but his minions who, after indoctrination, measured the scope of foul deeds

Rhyming Verse Romantic Poetry

When Love, the Center of Life, Fades

September 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1864 Views 4 Comments center of life, goodbye, love fades, memories, poem, sorrow

She averts her eyes to sympathize, perhaps not to see the pain, and he, in glaring self-recrimination, suffers the damnation of

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Cleansing

September 8, 2018September 8, 2018 Paul Neglia 1981 Views 8 Comments Atonement, Relinquishing hate, self-healing, self-perspective

A Cleansing … Atonement for my sins, my behaviors, my deeds, An enrollment from within to savor each bead, Emotions

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Oncoming Spring

September 7, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2077 Views 2 Comments beauty, change, hope, new life, oncoming spring, poem

Fragrant, the oncoming spring, burgeoning life a nuance of each day brings, change and warmth so missed, in every shoot

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Let Day Fade to Night

September 7, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1923 Views 6 Comments fade into night, firelight, letting go, poem, red wine, winds

Now, at this very moment, when winds howl as windows shudder, the moon glows in full regalement and utters not

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Tell Me Tales of History

September 6, 2018 R J Schwartz 1869 Views 4 Comments history, poetry, preservation, RJ Schwartz

Tell me tales of history… More than just the apple tree Your secrets and your mysteries Things that no one

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Each One a Memory, a Part of Me

September 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1552 Views 2 Comments brothels, memory, mines, past lives, poem, warring

Remnants of my lesser lives, memories of souls slain in warring dues, and lilting the breeze that reminds me of

Poetry Rhyming Verse

As the Lies Engender Truth, the Illusion

September 5, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1829 Views 0 Comments church, lies, media, poem, politicians, truth

Without restraint, I acknowledge the impurity of thought and action, the obscurity of deviations that so mark today’s society, lost

Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Declare My Love To You

September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Kurt James 3191 Views 6 Comments everlasting love, I declare, kurt james, kurt james author, love, will you be mine

That special person … In my 50 plus years on this earth I have never been jaded by love. I

Poetry Rhyming Verse

High of wing he glides

September 5, 2018September 7, 2018 EdF 2747 Views 2 Comments extinction, glides, high, osprey, river, wing

Before long another osprey is born … As I make my way to the shed out back I hear them

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

When the Penny Drops

September 3, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2042 Views 5 Comments ego, epistle, flagellant, imperfect, learning, penny drops

I wait impatiently for the penny to drop, the blind tremors of my wondering, accosted by what I’m seeing not,

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

So Over the Dramas

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1576 Views 2 Comments despair, downward spirals, dramas, hysterics, poem, suffering victims

Too much the weight of others, when tribulations and dramas set effect all the bystanders, and I reject the invitation,