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Mind my Heart, We’re Uneven

February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 Paul Neglia 2551 Views 6 Comments balance, fire, heart, mind, passion, understanding

Mind my Heart, We’re Uneven… Too many strains on the soul lends to the breaking of chains Those grounding the

Sentient Blindness

May 24, 2019May 25, 2019 Tony DeLorger 1074 Views 5 Comments balance, blindness, choices, existence, extremes, perception

What We Believe We may believe what we want to believe, but often that does not represent truth, for we

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

What of Balance?

April 8, 2019 R J Schwartz 1335 Views 2 Comments balance, equlaity, poetry, up and down, yin and yang

What of balance? An even distribution of light and darkness Opposing forces with no obvious ruler White and black Up

Haiku Poetry

Balance in Imperfections

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 Paul Neglia 2911 Views 12 Comments balance, Haiku, imperfections, love, relationship

Balance in Imperfections … Unchain the shackles Pound the drums, ignite my heart Unbind the anguish Release your ardor And

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Curse this mind of discontent

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 EdF 1255 Views 7 Comments balance, beauty, change, discontent, dreams, memories, Mindful, purpose

Curse this mind of discontent … I am often haunted by the questioning mind this

Inspirational Poetry Rhyming Verse

Our Pride of Place

June 28, 2018 Tony DeLorger 977 Views 2 Comments balance, disasters, earth, Mother's moods, poem, pride of place

At what cost, those storms given symmetry by halcyon days, winter’s malaise a sympathy for violent affronts, where maelstroms tear

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Our Mother, Her Kindness Ours to Value

June 18, 2018June 17, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1214 Views 2 Comments balance, kindness, mother nature, no intention, our teacher, poem

How life transcends us, our vastly limited views, and what is real within its rhyme, turns our limited views askew,

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

In Nature’s Tender Embrace

May 28, 2018May 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1540 Views 2 Comments balance, earth, guidance, poem, symbiosis, tender embrace

The breath of earth, is the rise and fall of days, and within our sentient knowing, we all live in

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Humility and Balance

April 14, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1420 Views 2 Comments balance, energy, epistle, humility, shared, symbiotic

Gratitude is the foundation of humility, for without it we are just plagiarizing life, using up its resources at no

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Symmetry, Balance, Perfection

April 7, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1976 Views 2 Comments balance, learning, natural world, perfection, poem, symmetry

Symmetry is as reflection, a balance of one side to another, and in nature balance abounds, thus symmetry also, as

Free Verse Poetry

Enchanted Woodland Sanctuary

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1284 Views 4 Comments balance, enchanted woodland, harmony, peace, Phyllis Doyle, sanctuary

Enchanted Woodland Sanctuary … Within my soul is an enchanted woodland sanctuary, Where all manner of nature’s living beings abide

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

The Paths of Despair

March 22, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2051 Views 2 Comments balance, despair, epistle, loss, mourning, paths

Despair tinges life like a slow rotting fruit, each day a deeper collapse of flesh, an insidious spread of death

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The Tightrope is for Learners

January 8, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1263 Views 2 Comments balance, choice in life, poem, remain/fall, self-belief, tightrope

The tightrope taunt, a narrow line on which to tread, and we hang on by a thread, this demarcation of

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By the Sea, in Filegree

January 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1174 Views 2 Comments balance, beauty, filigree, poem, rhythm of life, seashore

The sea surges and attests the shore with white crested touch, relentless waves of leaping foamy tufts of life in

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

World Without Limits

January 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1722 Views 7 Comments balance, bliss, life, limits, perspective, poem

The heart swells, the heart recedes, and circumstances whirl in an abyss of possibility, as we in fated stance, endure,

Epistle Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Pig-Headed and Our Own Worst Enemy

December 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1564 Views 2 Comments balance, change, epistle, growth, life, pig-headed

Life can be pig-headed, determined to have its way, especially when we are refusing to allay our fears and change,

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Silence is My Domain

December 2, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1578 Views 2 Comments balance, domain, flaws, poem, release, silence

Silence is my domain, my space, my calm refrain, and in the embrace of solitude I shield my core, from

Epistle Free Verse Poetry

Maintaining Emotional Balance

November 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1560 Views 2 Comments balance, control, emotions, epistle, responses, venting

Without reservation I encumber my choices with reason, untethered from the will of ego and open to peripheral views of

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The Undulating Game, Contention and Life

October 29, 2017October 29, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1425 Views 0 Comments balance, conflict, contention, forgiveness, hasty response, poem

Languishing in the exposure, maudlin for the darkness I have worn, sorrowful for the responses I accepted and regretful for

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In Balance Keep

September 30, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1487 Views 4 Comments balance, choices, darkness/light, poem, real/delusion, vision

Finding balance… Jewels abide dark places, every well a sustenance, and light often missed in worth for such gifts bleached

Epistle Poetry

The Provocation of Intellect

September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1110 Views 0 Comments balance, children, intellect, leaders, poem, provocation

Who stands provocative, stands to face their own inadequacies, and in that arrogance of stance, the tipping of balance, that

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To Face the Enemy, Eye to Eye

September 24, 2017September 23, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1383 Views 0 Comments balance, burden, enemy, facing enemy, fear, poem

Reticence is laced with fear, fear in turn, laced with imaginations wrath, as imagination, a doubled edged sword, our fondest

Free Verse Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Have I Worn it Well, This Life?

August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1653 Views 7 Comments balance, fulfillment, life, poem, struggle, worn

What heights have I reached, what depths have I breached, to experience all that is, that guides a soul’s mystique,

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