Antoni De'Leon

Joined August 2024

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Helen Keller).

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The Nature of Roots
We lean into symbolism, transformation, and the quiet philosophical pulse beneath living things. A branching - roots, trunk, crown - humans as “higher animals”,
By Antoni De'Leon29 days ago in Poets
The Flame's last sigh.
Quickly gather at the last flicker of light all who are tired, faint and weary This is your final flame Feel its warmth permeate your soul
By Antoni De'Leonabout a month ago in Poets
Elegiac Roots of the Unknown
🌳Children Without Roots feel caged in pastel shades of not knowing They walk through fields of borrowed names, searching in gray hues
By Antoni De'Leonabout a month ago in Poets
Inertia
Two entities exist, same but opposite in nature Happily existing in parallel dimensions of colorless bliss One brings light, the other heralds the darkness
By Antoni De'Leonabout a month ago in Poets
A sip of Poison
You are the poison I sip from my Lalique cup The ache that burns like venom - acrimonious Like Romeo's fair Juliet - One sip and I die
By Antoni De'Leonabout a month ago in Poets
Aura Afire
My thoughts are the architects of my reality, building fires to paradise - It crafts flaming corridors to chaos. Within my mind lies the power to ascend to bliss
By Antoni De'Leonabout a month ago in Poets
The Last Book Store
Have you ever felt the pull of a long forgotten or hidden place. A library, a crypt or a secret passage. Or perhaps you’ve glimpsed a mysterious figure in an old bookstore?
By Antoni De'Leonabout a month ago in Fiction
Rum Punch and Nostalgia
After growing out of the childhood stage, one begins to ponder the real meaning behind the rituals of the seasons. Every year at winter time, we decorate the tree, mainly for the sake of the wee ones. We eagerly await the pretty lights winking on trees, homes and businesses everywhere. We meet happy people who forget their troubles, even if just for a little while, and enjoy the welcome days of stress-free peace.
By Antoni De'Leon2 months ago in Humans
Where Lies my Baby Teeth. Runner-Up in Roots and Branches Challenge. Top Story - November 2025.
When I lost my baby teeth, my father gathered them and planted them under a young sapling oak tree where it would get lots of sunshine.
By Antoni De'Leon2 months ago in Poets
A bit of Solipsism
Villanelle of Solipsism I turn within myself ~ myself becoming my entire whole, The mirrors all bend ~ displaying the beauty that I seek,
By Antoni De'Leon2 months ago in Poets
Harvest praise.
Praises, ode sung to Joy for the abundant grace and blessings this harvest season gathered. ~~~~~~
By Antoni De'Leon2 months ago in Poets
Little blackbirds
Life often invites us to appreciate the little things A harvesting of the the Small amidst the clamor Like the Little blackbirds cheeping outside my window—
By Antoni De'Leon2 months ago in Poets

Antoni De'Leon

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The Nature of Roots

The Flame's last sigh.

Elegiac Roots of the Unknown

Inertia

A sip of Poison

Aura Afire

The Last Book Store

Rum Punch and Nostalgia

Where Lies my Baby Teeth. Runner-Up in Roots and Branches Challenge. Top Story - November 2025.

A bit of Solipsism

Harvest praise.

Little blackbirds

Achievements (4)