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The Accident

August 5, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2384 Views 4 Comments above clouds, accident, death, Heaven, poem, reason

High, higher than a mind can fly, and still I can’t remember why I sit upon this pedestal; breaching cloud

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A Black Metal Railing Doesn’t Last Forever

August 4, 2017August 5, 2017 R J Schwartz 2132 Views 4 Comments generations, growing old, life, Railing

Black Metal Railing Freshly painted, free of dust Bleeding tiny spots of rust Blemishes on that black metal railing All

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Fear

August 4, 2017July 23, 2017 Shannon Henry 2020 Views 6 Comments fear, jump, risk, sink, swim, trying

Fear takes hold with its icy grip Never before indecisive about things like this Take the risk – just jump

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Be You

August 4, 2017July 23, 2017 Shannon Henry 1958 Views 2 Comments good life, life, Yourself

Life is good, life is grand This life that’s yours and this life that’s mine Look within and take a

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Nuclear Nautilus Under the North Pole

August 3, 2017 R J Schwartz 2823 Views 3 Comments Nautilus, North Pole, northwest passage, submarine

August 3rd, 1958 Submarine infamy…the world couldn’t wait Under the North Pole, that was the plan Man versus nature, with

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From Where I Stand

August 3, 2017July 23, 2017 Shannon Henry 2543 Views 6 Comments cliff, ledge, noose, stand

From where I stand , up here on this branch It ain’t that far to fall So, go ahead, push

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Sentient Gaze

August 3, 2017August 4, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2322 Views 2 Comments beauty, gaze, moon rise, poem, pondering truths, sentient slumber

To gaze the beauty of oncoming night… Captivated by the swell of evening mist, luminescent the glow of moon shards

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Through the Labyrinth of Pain

August 3, 2017August 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2597 Views 6 Comments fear, labyrinth, pain, paths, poem, recompense

Bound by the pain of past… Often in life we encumber ourselves with the limits of past pain and conditioning,

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Now Is the Time

August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 Shannon Henry 2714 Views 6 Comments laughter, lyrics, rain, time

Why do people say you’ve got nothing but time When this life could easily stop on a dime Today could

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The Child In-Between

August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2179 Views 8 Comments between worlds, child, earth, not whole, poem, purpose

The child between two worlds, feels connected to both, yet incomplete the street with two sides, is walked in the

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Open Wide

August 1, 2017July 24, 2017 Shannon Henry 1926 Views 4 Comments boot in ass, donkey, foot in mouth, humor, jackass

Open Wide Ah, yes – I made you mad, I see I would say, “Stop all this absurdity!” But, what

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In Time…the Cleansing of Our Needs

August 1, 2017July 31, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2093 Views 4 Comments cleansing, elements, perfection, poem, sharing, time

Cleansing… The wind blows as if to cleanse the land, and time does recuse itself, its beat somehow in remand,

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Sun’s Bequest

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1985 Views 4 Comments bequests, Bitter, change, poem, sun, winter

The Bequest… And the sun donned a hat, sunglasses just so, and winter crept in like a prowling cat, slinking

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To Bear the Plight of Growth

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2310 Views 4 Comments bear, earth, growth, Heaven, love, poem

Bear the weight…. What falls from heaven into the realm of men, is tainted by the shadows there, for what

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Falling Again

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 Paul Neglia 2750 Views 10 Comments beauty, Cupid's strings, freedom, rekindled love, yearning

Falling in Love Again… She never, ever once looked nice Nice being new lampshades She was a work of

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The Path of In-Between

July 30, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2010 Views 6 Comments balance, in-between, injustice, life, path, poem

I tread the path of in between, impaled by the truths I in stead have gleaned, and see what stirs

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Spiderwebs of Love

July 30, 2017July 24, 2017 Shannon Henry 2374 Views 6 Comments love, relationships, spiderwebs

Spiderwebs of Love In life, it seems, we build our bonds with tenuous threads How easily they break and

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Galleons…dared to challenge the Horn

July 30, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1837 Views 8 Comments galleons, grief, lost, poem, tempest, the Horn

Galleons rip through surging waves, tempest tips like frosting edge the grey, and bows sharpened, cut through the swell. Figureheads

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Woodland Life…the cycles of day and night

July 30, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2649 Views 8 Comments cycles, day and night, death and birth, life, poem, woodland

Rarely do I use a four line stanza and A,A,B,B rhyming scheme, but sometimes it suits my purpose, and as

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“Tree Whisper” – Natures Melody

July 30, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 5193 Views 11 Comments Colorado, mountain songs, NATURE MELODY, Rocky Mountains, the wind, TREE WHISPER

Being a child of Colorado and growing into a man of nature, there is nothing more pleasing and comforting than

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Poetic Licence

July 30, 2017July 30, 2017 John Hansen 4332 Views 15 Comments poetic licence, poetry, poets, Shakespeare, writing

Poetic Licence Poetic Licence Poets are a unique bunch With rules unto themselves. Throw grammar laws out of the door,

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Untouched Softness, Winter’s First Snowfall

July 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3212 Views 6 Comments first snowfall, jingling bells, snowflakes, untouched softness, winter

Untouched Softness Untouched softness of winter’s first snowfall, I love to watch as it slowly sails down, More pure

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Upon the Beds of Lesser Men

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1668 Views 4 Comments lesser, men, no love, poem, shallow, using

Upon the beds of lesser men, the stain of use and measure tend to be dismissed, a kiss no deeper