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Beyond The Passion Where Loving Lives (There)

February 6, 2018February 23, 2018 Donald Loudon 2040 Views 14 Comments beyond passion, bliss, ethereal, loving lives, ppassions carress, unforbidden care

Beyond the Passion Where Loving Lives As arms befriend some empty air there arrives a portion somewhat there, in exercise

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Intoxicating View

February 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2439 Views 9 Comments burgeoning clouds, intoxicating, poem, possibilities, truth, whispering secrets

The clouds amass, in ever burgeoning plumes, skating silently through the blue infinity, shadows cast and linings glisten in heaven’s

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Escape

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 Paul Neglia 2886 Views 8 Comments escape, perserverance, starvation, tragedy, war

Escape from Nazis … III. Escape For months we had studied to expose a weak spot rehearsing in code with

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In Sacred Breath of Life

February 6, 2018February 5, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1605 Views 2 Comments beauty, life, peace within, poem, sacred, spiritual life

To imbibe the passion of day’s grace, its sensory yielding the face of each unique moment, woven into time’s finest

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When the Hammer Comes Down

February 6, 2018February 5, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2390 Views 2 Comments abyss, arrogance, facing ourselves, hammer, poem, pride

When does the hammer come down, when trepidation s fulfilled find us wanting, and then clouds like dark iron plumes,

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The Rolling Waves Return

February 5, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3218 Views 10 Comments calming, poem, rise and fall, rolling, salty air, seashore

I watch the sea roll in, like white crested swans riding the aqua blue, exploding in flight at the shore,

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An Angered Response can be Devastating

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1953 Views 2 Comments angered, fagility, letter of the law, physical reponse, poem, Regrets

Midway between fury’s breach and the harsh ramifications of outcome, there is a silent slow-motion speech we mouth to ourselves,

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Moments of Clarity

February 3, 2018February 2, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1787 Views 2 Comments beauty, clarity, dreams, poem, release, sunset moments

Tangerine the color of my sunset play, as curtains drawn become the night and say in sweet release, farewell to

Christmas Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

Granny’s Christmas Angel

February 2, 2018December 1, 2018 John Hansen 2746 Views 12 Comments Christmas, Christmas Angel, Christmas tree, Granny, Store

In a back street in Chicago, In a black community There sits a little Christmas shop. Lights flicker on the

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Afferent Displays, So Deep in Eyes

February 2, 2018February 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3367 Views 14 Comments afferent, beauty, divine, love, poem, souls as one

Love paints the gloaming sky with such untiring beauty, eloquent the silent words, attesting hearts in transition, suppositions of endless

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You Tell Me, Am I Crazy?

February 1, 2018January 31, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1671 Views 6 Comments crazy, cynical, inequality and sin, insane world, left wanting, poem

Can it be that what I see is blind to truth, my perception found wanting, my insanity absconding with what

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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Attrition

January 24, 2018January 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 2405 Views 8 Comments death, horrors, life, sanity, war

Attrition I. Battlefield Abject silence was the tormenting anxiety, as stillness ripples its way through the ravaged square. A cold

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The Acceptance of Truth, No Matter What

January 24, 2018January 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1837 Views 0 Comments acceptance, choices, insight, poem, selfless, truth

Ever true, the heart of a selfless man, a man in the labor of his soul, to glean what the

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Flow as We in Expectation

January 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1681 Views 0 Comments aspirations, creations from within, expectations, obstacles of fear, poem, what we create

The winds only touch the still, those running feel not its afferent trace, and those against the blow just hasten

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Accept, Relinquish, Surrender, Light, Teach, Engender

January 23, 2018January 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 3875 Views 0 Comments energy, ethereal light, importance, poem, six words, surrender

Thrice the echo resounded clean, as if to insist on meaning, and the words imbued the body complete, I, saturated