TONY DALY
TONY DALY
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PTSD - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A collection of personal stories and poetry about life living with PTSD. Poetry for Mental Health, April 2026.
Kneeling at the Gravestone
Metallic Albatross
Patch
Vagabond
Sublimation Annual II, Island of Wak-Wak, TBD
first flight
The Light Ekphrastic, TBD
TBD
TBD
Published Poetry
(Alphabetical)
A Moment - The Bad Day Book Parenting Edition: Parenting While Loosing Your Mind, January 2025.
A Pause - Gypsophila Magazine: Volume 3, Issue 6, Intimacy, February 2025.
Alien Hunger - Glow, Truth Serum, Vol.6, Truth Serum Press, Fall 2020.
Alkonost Cube - Utopia Science Fiction, February 2021.
Amongst the Dunes - Amicus, a, um, Danse Macabre: DM 138, October 2021.
Amontillado, Jr. - 2024 Halloween Poetry Reading (audio recording), Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, October 2024. Originally published in The Horror Zine, May 2017.
Attention - Retirement: Lifespan Anthology Series, Pure Slush, April 2024.
blended kaleidoscopic rotation - Lovecraftiana: Lammas Eve, 2023.
By Candle Light - Ideology Press, 2000.
Capsule - Silver Blade Magazine, Summer 2021.
Catacombs - Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror, March 2024.
Cosmic Selkie - Utopia Science Fiction, February 2021.
Cottage in the Woods- March Selected Poet - The Horror Zine, March 2021.
CNA - Work: Lifespan Series, Pure Slush, May 2022.
Crepitation - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, February, 2019.
Crimson-Butterfly Day- March Selected Poet - The Horror Zine, March 2021.
Cthulhu the Middle Manager - Eldritch Prayers I:An Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos Poetry and Art, October 2025.
Darkness Within - The Horror Zine Magazine Fall 2023, September 2023.
Declaration - Sublimation, Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2025.
Devotion - The Horror Zine, Summer, April 2022.
Digital Screen - Light - Paddler Press, Vol. 4, April 2022.
Downward Spiral- March Selected Poet - The Horror Zine, March 2021.
Dream Warrior - The Poet Magazine Adversity Issue, Dec. 8, 2021. Featured poem on Poetry for Mental Health webpage, March 5, 2022.
Eating Breakfast Pizza with an Allergy - Star*Line, Vol. 45.2, Spring 2022. Editor’s Choice Poem.
Enjoying a Moment - Marriage: Lifespan Series, Vol. 6, Pure Slush, August 2022.
Faded Glory - Aspiring Writers 2013 Winners Anthology Short Stories and Poems, Blue Dragon Press, July 2, 2014.
Fading Light - Illumen Spring 2023, April 2023.
First Blackberry Pie - Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, January 2023.
first flight - Sublimation, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2025.
First Kiss - Piece By Piece: An Anti-Valentine's Day Collection, Dark Moon Rising Publications, February 2025.
First Response - The Stray Branch, Fall/Winter 2019.
From Work to Metro - Tigershark, Issue 31, June 2022.
Galactic Service - Polu Texni, August 2022.
Gathering - Song of Eretz Poetry Review, Summer 2022, June 2022.
Globular Organ Mirrors - Sublimation, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2025.
Golden Ignorance - Ekphrastic Challenge 10, The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press Newsletter, February 2025.
Guerrilla Tactics - Heroes: 100 Poems from the New Generation of War Poets, Ed. John Jeffcock, Ebury Publishing, November 1, 2011.
Had to Get Out - Amicus, a, um, Danse Macabre: DM 138, October 2021.
Hair Trigger - Amicus, a, um, Danse Macabre: DM 138, October 2021.
Hesitation - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, February, 2019.
His Name was Envy - The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Summer 2025, July 2025.
Hold the Line - Poetry for Ukraine, The Poet Magazine, April 2022. Featured poem on The Poet Magazine website, March 29, 2022.
Involuntary Shucking - Let's Get Physical, Pilcrow & Dagger, January 2018 issue.
I Sloth - Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 4, Pure Slush, November 2018.
Infinite Possibility - Poetry.com, 2001.
It was a wonderful daddy-daughter date. - Superfan Wrestling Zine!, Meow Meow Pow Pow, June 2025
Kneeling at the Gravestone - Memento Mori Poems, Red Wolf Journal, Issue 12, Fall/Winter 2017/2018. PTSD - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A collection of personal stories and poetry about life living with PTSD. Poetry for Mental Health, April 2026.
Lady in White - Ekphrastic Writing Response: The WitchesDance, The Ekphrastic Writing Review, November 2021.
Lord Decay - The Horror Zine Magazine Fall 2023, September 2023.
Losing Balance - The Light Ekphrastic, February 2021.
Lost - Piece By Piece: An Anti-Valentine's Day Collection, Dark Moon Rising Publications, February 2025.
Marriage - Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, January 2023.
Memories and Anxieties - The Poet Magazine Adversity Issue, Dec. 8, 2021. Featured poem on Poetry for Mental Health webpage, March 5, 2022.
Metallic Albatross - PTSD - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A collection of personal stories and poetry about life living with PTSD. Poetry for Mental Health, April 2026.
Migraine - Illumen Spring 2023, April 2023.
Modern-Day Selkie - Fairies, Elves, and Dragons, Pilcrow & Dagger, February/March 2018.
Morning Ritual in the Snow Belt - Tigershark E-Zine, Issue 20, October 2018.
Mrs. M. - Wrong Way Go Back Vol. 19, Pure Slush, Fall 2020.
My Heart - Poetry.com, 2001.
My Stars - The Poet Magazine, Featured Poem, June 25, 2022.
nameless things - Eldritch Prayers I: An Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos Poetry and Art, October 2025.
Neon Spiderweb - Red Ogre Review, Issue 4, January 2022.
Night Practice - Tigershark, Issue 31, June 2022.
Night Terrors - Dreamscapes Anthology, Cherry House Press, July 2019.
Of Osiris, Dionysos, Bachhass, or Moses - The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Summer 2025, July 2025.
Oliver Displaced - Ekphrastic Writing Response: Gustave Caillebotte, The Ekphrastic Review, December 2021.
On the Platform - Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 6, Pure Slush, February, 2019.
Optical Limitation - Illumen, Spring 2020.
Patch - As You Were: The Military Review Vol. 10, Military Experience and the Arts, Spring/Summer, 2019. PTSD - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A collection of personal stories and poetry about life living with PTSD. Poetry for Mental Health, April 2026.
Pixies of Hartford - Fairies, Elves, and Dragons, Pilcrow & Dagger, February/March 2018.
Proposal - Silver Blade Issue 44, December 2019.
Remember the Basin - Eye to the Telescope 45, Veterans of Alien Wars, July 2022.
Red - Amicus, a, um, Danse Macabre: DM 138, October 2021.
Reservist Lament - The Brave, Clare Songbird Publications, November 2019.
Robin Goodfellow's Prismatic Love - Sublimation, Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2025.
Sarnath Center - Lovecraftiana: Lammas Eve, 2023.
Self-Repression - The Light Ekphrastic, February 2021.
Shepherd - Line of Advance, September 2021.
Shower Invasion - parABnormal Magazine, September 2022.
Sledding Hill - The Poet Magazine - CHILDHOOD - Winter 2020.
Sonnet for a Tree - Harmonic Verse, Local Gems Press, December, 2023.
Squeeze - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, May 2017.
Standing on a Bridge - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, February, 2019.
Staring at Me - Greed: Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 3, Pure Slush, August 2018.
Suffering - Piece By Piece: An Anti-Valentine's Day Collection, Dark Moon Rising Publications, February 2025.
Sunita Soars - Dwarf Stars 2022, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2022. First published in Utopia Science Fiction, February 2021.
The Ambush - The Poet Magazine - CHILDHOOD - Winter 2020.
The Box - The Ekphrastic Review, January 21, 2017.
The Cellist - The Poet Magazine Adversity Issue, Dec. 8, 2021. Featured poem on Poetry for Mental Health webpage, March 5, 2022.
The Fairy Shell - Fairies, Elves, and Dragons, Pilcrow & Dagger, February/March 2018.
The Fence - Home: Lifespan Anthology Series, Pure Slush, May 2023.
The Iris Trap - 25 Miles From Here, Pure Slush, Vol. 21, September 2021.
The Knife - Death: Lifespan Vol. 12, Pure Slush, July 2024.
The Lapping - The Horror Zine Magazine Fall 2023, September 2023.
The Player - Wrath: Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 5, Pure Slush, January, 2019.
The River Swallowed Her - The Stray Branch, Fall/Winter 2019.
The Spider of Leng - Eldritch Prayers I: An Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos Poetry and Art, October 2025.
The Things She Carried - The Poet Magazine - CHILDHOOD - Winter 2020.
The Touch of Skin - Poetry.com, 2001.
The Tragedy of Photons - Light - Paddler Press, Vol. 4, April 2022.
The Woman I Love - Love & Ensuing Madness, Rat's Ass Review, December 2016.
These Boots - Mason Street Blog, November 2021.
They Haunt Me - Sublimation Annual 1: The Best of Volume 1, January 2025. Originally published in Sublimation: Volume1, Issue 1, June 2024.
Thundering Giant - March Selected Poet - The Horror Zine, March 2021.
Time Cop - Spaceports & Spidersilk, February 2021.
To Be Tough - Pride, 7 Deadly Sins, Volume 7, Pure Slush, May 2019.
To Cap - O-Dark-Thirty: A Literary Journal, Volume 6, Number 3, Spring 2018.
To My Brother - WayWords Journal Issue 15: Nostalgia, July 2024.
To the Sky - The Horror Zine, Summer, April 2022.
Trauma Series Ghazal - Eastern Structures No. 25, December 2024.
Tri-Hull - NOVA Bards 2023: An Anthology of Northern Virginia Poetry, Local Gems Press, October, 2023.
Two Ravens - Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, January 2023.
Under My Breath - Pen In Hand, January 2016.
Untitled Haiku - World Haiku Review, Autumn 2020.
Untitled Mononuk - Poetry Pea Journal 2:22 (September 2022) and Poetry Pea Podcast on June 20th, S5E12. (at about the 19:20 mark)
Untitled Scifakus - Two Scifakus - Scifakuest, May 2025.
Untitled Twitter Poem- #BackOnTrackNow: A Write by the Rails Anthology and Social Media Initiative, March 2019.
Vagabond - PTSD - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A collection of personal stories and poetry about life living with PTSD. Poetry for Mental Health, April 2026.
Vows - Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, January 2023.
Washed Away - The Horror Zine, Summer, April 2022.
Weekend Goodbye - Poetry.com, 2001.
When Grandma Visits - Love: Lifespan Vol. 4, Pure Slush, October 2021.
White - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, May 2017.
Wing Beats - Illumen Spring 2023, April 2023.
Witchecution - Silver Blade Issue 44, December 2019.
World Turtle - Tigershark, Issue 31, June 2022.
Zombie - Amicus, a, um, Danse Macabre: DM 138, October 2021.
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