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A Life Not Meant for This

April 30, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1619 Views 2 Comments dungeon, incarceration, injustice, meant, poem, slow demise

Broken rhymes, words absolved, a candle-lit rose wilting within these grey walls, where cold steel and thoughts unspoken try to

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Our Fate is In Our Hands

April 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3153 Views 3 Comments alone, fate, hope and fear, in our own hands, poem, responsibility

Tethered to a lifeboat, for sure I cannot drown, but there’s a leak in this my lifeboat, a slow and

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The Winning We So Want

April 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1759 Views 2 Comments all in the thinking, confidence, doubts are disarming, poem, victory or loss, winning

Implements of mind render doubt an unkind spectacle, a manacle of impediment, to failure’s deep sediment, at the bottom of

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Suddenly I Am Alone

April 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1712 Views 2 Comments ally fear, alone, escaping myself, poem, reflection, understanding

I run, gasping for breath, heart pounding, every muscle under stress, eyes blurred in frantic dismay, not knowing which direction

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Emotion’s Epiphany

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2402 Views 2 Comments emotions, Epiphany, expression, freedom, poem, uplifting experience

Too choked to speak, too flooded with emotion to reap any epiphany other than being in the moment, as so

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Rocky Mountain Wind

April 28, 2018April 29, 2018 Kurt James 3354 Views 6 Comments Colorado, gold, kurt james, kurt james author, Mountain Spirits, Rocky Mountains, silver, Ute Indians

Rocky Mountain Wind – Since the early times in the Colorado Rocky Mountains man has searched for what he thought

Poetry Rhyming Verse Romantic Poetry

So Prone to Breaking

April 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1756 Views 6 Comments fear of being alone, heart break, poem, prone, seasons, words stuck

Questions like clouds hang low over my mountains, misting the clarity of view, and too, I see green yearning pines

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A Perspective Bite

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1852 Views 2 Comments bleeding out, humanity, perspective, ruptured colors, time's bleating cries, vacant eyes

Ruptured colors bleed in profuse rainbows, skies just a canvas for the carnage of light inspired, and suns and moons

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The Clouded, Hooded, Eclipsed and Somber Mind

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 3597 Views 6 Comments Choosing paths, clouded thoughts, wrong choices

The Mind …challenge accepted The mind is often clouded by a pale, ebony fog, Confined to lonely houses derailed

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So Much Capacity to Respond

April 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1870 Views 2 Comments capacity, eternity, love and expression, poem, resonding to life, symbiosis

How starkly reality sometimes creates an affront, that can take our breath away, be it beauty or dismay, the nature

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The Music of Brazil

April 26, 2018April 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2034 Views 6 Comments bliss, Brazil, impassioned dance, music, poem, Rhythm

Afferent moves captured by a melodious groove, imparted by music’s silken allure and eyes-closed pleasure seen in notes and colored

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Anything is Possible…the Path of Thought

April 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1584 Views 2 Comments clarity, competition, manifest into reality, poem, possible, thoughts

In sweet release a passing thought does fade, spinning so gracefully its colored form dissipating, and anchored are those thoughts

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A Kindness to a Beast

April 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1843 Views 4 Comments Beast, kindness, nature's mistake, poem, smiling death, suffering

Twisted claw and limbs crumpled, head of beast and face displaced and coupled with a gnarled body barely moving rise

Poetry Rhyming Verse Satire

A Woman Finds My Cure

April 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1758 Views 0 Comments acute pain, cure, lesson to learn, my mistake, satire, stiletto

Hit me where it hurts, pigeon-toed and bent, a grimace for a smile and all the while the sense of

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A Poet’s Heart

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1788 Views 4 Comments age, Echoes, elusive words, heart, poem, poet

I fear the days when words find solace in shadows, hiding from a mind in a state of disarray, and

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The Great Depression

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 R J Schwartz 12508 Views 3 Comments Great Depression, New Deal, RJ Schwartz, Stock Market Crash 1929, World War II

Fifty Five days in 1929 The world watched as the market declined After many months of expansion What could be

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The Pursuit and Sad Reality

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Paul Neglia 1651 Views 10 Comments Atonement, be yourself, Friends aren't always friends, life, pursuit

The Pursuit and Sad Reality… I broke bread with the sinners, had dinners with men, Toast the dead with some

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Mother Nature’s Time is Not Done

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1690 Views 12 Comments mist, mother nature, our voice, perfect harmony, rain, save nature

Mother Nature’s Time … Mother Nature’s time is not done Nor will it ever be, May she ever remain glorious

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We, a Flicker in Time

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1915 Views 6 Comments broken universe, colliding, explosions, flicker ot time, new beginning, poem

Plates of studded diamond falling fates, glimmer in purple haze of night, clattering, breaking in the weightless fall, as shapes

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Nature and Nurture

April 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2247 Views 2 Comments epistle, growing, intentions/predilections, moral compass, nurture and nature, self-understanding

The mind complies with steadfast resolution, to all that has been experienced, paid in restitution, as we are sponges, able

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Seek Not Security, But Possibility

April 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1989 Views 3 Comments acceptance, change, epistle, life's flow, possibility, progression

Sometimes the stillness is portending change, often an iniquitous foreshadowing of a future set, a troubled vetting of the status

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It’s a Weird Wor(l)d – a Poem of Puns

April 24, 2018November 13, 2024 John Hansen 3768 Views 8 Comments humor, humour, puns, weird words

Phyllis’s Challenge In Phyllis Doyle’s humorous piece “Six Pack to Go” she issued a challenge to try and come up

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No Matter the Circumstance

April 23, 2018April 24, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2183 Views 2 Comments accept, blame, epistle, life, regret, taking responsibility

There can always be an excuse, a reason wrapped in a stubborn ruse, a closed mind that can reap negative