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Wake for Humanity

June 12, 2016June 12, 2016 Melissa Hougard 3318 Views 18 Comments humanity, sad, shootings, society, violence, wake

Humanity look what we have become… lost in our screens devoid of life’s gentler dreams. “Active shooters” “Fluid scenes”

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Beneath, Betrayal

June 11, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2158 Views 2 Comments beneath, betrayal, Bitter, deceit, emotions, ending

Beneath, Betrayal From dry lips words crack under pressure, eloquent thoughts

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Anxiety Whispers

June 11, 2016September 22, 2018 Melissa Hougard 3043 Views 11 Comments anxiety, criticizing, depression, self-esteem, self-ridicule, voices

Anxiety Whispers Shapeless whispers heckling anxiety’s intrusion… the unwelcome spider crawling behind.

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Oblivious

June 10, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2748 Views 6 Comments attention, blind, comfort, deluded, delusion, distracted

Oblivious I see them

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Quiet Conversations

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 Melissa Hougard 3220 Views 14 Comments communication, conversations, love, quiet, relationships, technology

The silence grew between us… heads bowed in screens and hybrid magazines. Conversations on the edge of things

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Poems Based on the Morals of Aesop

June 10, 2016September 15, 2016 John Hansen 10678 Views 16 Comments Aesop, fables, morals, slave, wisdom

Morals of Aesop Aesop, the famous Greek philosopher and sage (620 B.C. – 560 B.C.) is most well known for

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Echoes

June 9, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2540 Views 4 Comments acceptance, clean, dreams, Echoes, failed, forgiveness, future, haunted, letting go, life, lingering, mistakes, move on, not tethered, pain, past, poem

Echoes … Echoes can be heard in dreams

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Sorrows of the Past

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2795 Views 4 Comments

Sorrows of the past keep coming back From the attic of my wounded mind. To torture and test me, just

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Sadness for a Future

June 8, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1978 Views 4 Comments abyss, anguish, death, disease, disrespect, dissidents, future, ideals, narcissists, poem, possibilities, primordial urges, righteous, sadness, tainted

The sadness wells up like a dark specter, infusing body and mind, like ripples from a blood moon tide it

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I Cast My Vote

June 8, 2016June 9, 2016 Melissa Hougard 3464 Views 10 Comments America, Corruption, Divide, Greed, politics, Voting

There is no rhyme to this lack of reason… this political treason America…’land of the free’. I

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Spiritual Thought

June 8, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2421 Views 2 Comments acceptance, balance, darkness, learning, righteous, spiritual

Spiritual Thought The ways of a spiritual mind,

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Mother’s Endless Rhyme

June 5, 2016June 6, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3257 Views 2 Comments beauty, demands, dreams, grace, harmony, heart

Delicate, the countenance

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The Gleaning

June 4, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2213 Views 2 Comments essence, experience, gleaning, journey, learning, paths, poem, realization, spirit, troubles

Sure, this speck of infinite life, a glimmer

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Played Out Passion

June 4, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2356 Views 6 Comments aftermath, beginnings, bliss, havoc, indulgence, love, passion, path, peril, poetry, reality, romance

Passion Love’s tedious front, a minefield, a pitted winding path of barbed stones and ragged peaks, under glorious skies and

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Seven Times

June 4, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2128 Views 2 Comments alone, breakup, consideration, future, lost love, poem, rejection, seven

Seven Times Seven times you asked, and seven times the silent reply held, the tongue cannot abide the lie,

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My Chamber Dark

June 3, 2016January 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2001 Views 6 Comments book, chamber, demons, reading, shadows, taunting

In my private room where a fire brims,

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Illusory Superiority

June 3, 2016February 24, 2017 R J Schwartz 2127 Views 2 Comments abilities, personalities, superiority

Illusory Superiority Overestimated abilities Enhanced personality Incomparable qualities Not what you see But what I say instead An

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Struggling Light

June 2, 2016November 13, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1783 Views 2 Comments darkness, haunted, hope, light, poem, struggle

Struggling Light Despite the light, that glimmers

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Unrepentant

June 2, 2016November 12, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2296 Views 2 Comments beauty, chill, choices, dull, memory, pane

Nature’s scowl Rattle my window, chilled

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Glimmer of your Shine

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Melissa Hougard 3192 Views 14 Comments Glimmer, Loneliness, poem, Regrets, sad, secrets

I only want to see… the glimmer of your shine. Would you hear me while you drown in

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Little Girls Won’t Tell

June 2, 2016November 9, 2016 Ruby Fuller 2132 Views 12 Comments child molested, evil heart, little girls, nobody listened, sister safe, solemn vow

Little Girls Won’t Tell Nobody listened Child molested once again. Nobody listened, Not even a friend. The father whispers, ”

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An Unwanted Rhyme

June 2, 2016June 2, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1860 Views 6 Comments breakup, lost, love, pain, poem, prevail, rhyme, survive, understanding, unfulfilled

All I am, is with your heart, and

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Reprieve

June 2, 2016October 1, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2539 Views 2 Comments delight, dreams, momentary, poem, praise, relief

Reprieve The sun in morning touch aspires to eclipse the