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Parting Words My Fear

August 21, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1622 Views 2 Comments betrayal, fears, parting, poem, relationship ending, shock

Words fell from her trembling lips, tears held at bay, the words quipped in the refusal of what they were,

What and Why, Where Contradictions Apply

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1986 Views 4 Comments contradictions, learning, life, morality, perspective, satire

What itches can’t always be scratched, what’s laid can’t always be hatched, and the distance between sight and reality is

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A Man of Valor

August 20, 2018September 7, 2018 Chris Mills 4198 Views 6 Comments challenger, love, man, step aside, truth, valor

A Man of Valor I asked for truth, You replied in truth. Could I ask again, And expect more?

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Love’s Sweet Release

August 18, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2054 Views 6 Comments different world, joy, longing, love's freedom, poem, release

Oh sweet release, when love’s nurture sets us free, and in the arms of love we surrender to all the

Rhyming Verse Satire

From Each and Every Blow

August 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1869 Views 4 Comments blow, fears, paranoid, poem, possibilities, uncertainty

Drawn the curtains of my fears, weather withholding, what lurks in ominous potential, fills my mind with possibilities, and light

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Another Winter of Discontent

August 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1855 Views 4 Comments deceived, discontent, lost to a system, poem, rulers, tyranny

Implored to uphold the spin, to ingratiate beliefs and deceptive dins of all the propaganda fed, to the masses in

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Convex My Armor, Concave My Fears

August 16, 2018August 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1953 Views 4 Comments armor, Being human, concave, convex, fears, poem

Convex my armor, concave my fears, and in the panic of confusion my rising response austere, as in human flesh

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The Park

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 Paul Neglia 1979 Views 8 Comments attraction, beauty, descriptive, nature, park

The Park … Colossus watches, his eyes adjourn each night, his last sight The Park, its utopic quintessence. Moonlit baths

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Those Cold Dark Streets

August 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 4397 Views 6 Comments forgiveness, memories of love, poem, Regrets, release, streets

Nevertheless my heart still beats, regardless of the pain and betrayal that echoes long in the silence of my deserted

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The Scars are just Pain Healed

August 15, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2169 Views 4 Comments forgiveness, jealousy, love, pain of loss, poem, scars

What pain cannot scar the soul’s flesh, leave remnants of regret, times passed in struggle of being, ill-timed circumstances prohibit

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Marionette With Broken Strings

August 14, 2018 R J Schwartz 2254 Views 5 Comments controlling people, cutting cords, gaslighting, marionette, RJ Schwartz

A marionette with broken strings Who’d like to fly; maybe get some wings Trapped, alone and unsatisfied While the world

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The Luminous Light of Life…the Aura

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1997 Views 4 Comments auras, evolution, finer stuff, human thought/belief, life, poem

Luminous the light of life, a glow of deep seated intention, and its sweet intervention in matters of the

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Choices Made and the Consequence

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1900 Views 2 Comments choices, consequence, consideration, epistle, kindness in effect, their burden

Who mistakenly feels the weight of their own decisions, when confidence lords with concise incisions, carving life into acceptable bundles,

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Our Experiences Worth Living

August 12, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1469 Views 2 Comments acceptance, appreciation, learning, poem, truth, worth living

The winds change incessantly, aligned we may be to the fallen, and confusion reigns momentarily, as new lines on the

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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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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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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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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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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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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