TONY DALY

Published Poetry

(Alphabetical)​​

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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.

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Amongst the Dunes - Amicus, a, um, Danse Macabre: DM 138, October 2021. 

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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.  

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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.

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Cosmic Selkie - Utopia Science Fiction, February 2021.

 

Cottage in the Woods- March Selected Poet - The Horror Zine, March 2021.

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CNA - Work: Lifespan Series, Pure Slush, May  2022. 

 

Crepitation - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, February, 2019.

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Crimson-Butterfly Day- March Selected Poet - The Horror Zine, March 2021.

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Cthulhu the Middle Manager - Eldritch Prayers I:An Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos Poetry and Art, October 2025. 

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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.

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Dream Warrior - The Poet Magazine Adversity Issue, Dec. 8, 2021. Featured poem on Poetry for Mental Health webpage, March 5, 2022. 

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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. 

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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.

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First Response -  The Stray Branch, Fall/Winter 2019.

 

From Work to Metro - Tigershark, Issue 31, June 2022. 

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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.

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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. 

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​Hesitation - Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, February, 2019.

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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.

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Infinite Possibility - Poetry.com, 2001.

 

It was a wonderful daddy-daughter date. - Superfan Wrestling Zine!, Meow Meow Pow Pow, June 2025

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Kneeling at the Gravestone - Memento Mori Poems, Red Wolf Journal, Issue 12, Fall/Winter 2017/2018.

 

Lady in White - Ekphrastic Writing Response: The WitchesDance, The Ekphrastic Writing Review, November 2021. 

 

Lord Decay - The Horror Zine Magazine Fall 2023, September 2023. 

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Losing Balance - The Light Ekphrastic, February 2021.

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Lost - Piece By Piece: An Anti-Valentine's Day Collection, Dark Moon Rising Publications, February 2025.

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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. 

 

Migraine - Illumen Spring 2023, April 2023. 

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Modern-Day Selkie - Fairies, Elves, and Dragons, Pilcrow & Dagger, February/March 2018.

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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.

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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. 

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Night Terrors - Dreamscapes Anthology, Cherry House Press, July 2019.

 

Of Osiris, Dionysos, Bachhass, or Moses - The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Summer 2025, July 2025.

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Oliver Displaced - Ekphrastic Writing Response: Gustave Caillebotte, The Ekphrastic Review, December 2021.  

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On the Platform - Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 6, Pure Slush, February, 2019.

 

Optical Limitation - Illumen, Spring 2020.

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Patch - As You Were: The Military Review Vol. 10, Military Experience and the Arts, Spring/Summer, 2019.

 

Pixies of Hartford - Fairies, Elves, and Dragons, Pilcrow & Dagger, February/March 2018.

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Proposal - Silver Blade Issue 44, December 2019.

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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. 

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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.

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Sonnet for a Tree - Harmonic Verse, Local Gems Press, December, 2023. 

 

Squeeze -  Editor's Pick Poet - The Horror Zine, May 2017.

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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. 

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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.

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The Lapping - The Horror Zine Magazine Fall 2023, September 2023. 

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The Player - Wrath: Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 5, Pure Slush, January, 2019.

 

The River Swallowed Her -  The Stray Branch, Fall/Winter 2019.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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Untitled Twitter Poem- #BackOnTrackNow: A Write by the Rails Anthology and Social Media Initiative, March 2019.

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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