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Faith Is Contagious
https://flic.kr/p/rUSCPN Faith Is Contagious by Michael Romani Faith is and should be contagious As it is shared in each story Faith is and should be contagious As it is shown in each glory Faith revolves around the door Spoken words … Continue reading
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Tagged Causes, Cross, Faith Is Contagious, Glory, Learn, Lessons, Loss, Pauses, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revolves, Salvation, Spoken Word, Story
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Invisible
Out there on that shameful toxic corner So many stand around being mourners Always out to seek their wanted for own Or having lost it, they turn their hearts to stone The things that make us feel good maybe invincible … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Adversity, Agape, Contrary, Corner, Daily Prompt, Deserve, Endless Mile, Eros, Inivsible, Invincible, Love, Mourners, Necessary, Poor, Rich, Self, Serve, Smile, Stone, Toxic, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: The Older We Are, the Clearer We Should See
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul Richter, writer (21 Mar 1763-1825)
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Tagged Clarity, Hourglass, Jean Paul Richter, Life, Sand, Thought For the Day, Time
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First Principles: Make Our Wish To Be Useful In Serving Our Nation
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale (1776)
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Tagged Expectation, First Principles, Honor, Influence, Nathan Hale, Pecuniary Reward, Promotion, Public Good, Service, Useful
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Lessons In Elijah
Lesss Lessons In Elijah by Michael Romani This world is filled with sin And shattered, broken dreams Tragedy strikes us again and again Tested by the pain; gathering in our screams God called Elijah to his hour An ordinary man … Continue reading
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Identical
Perhaps it is a bit much too parenthetical To point out how the technique is identical In that which the skaters do employ And in bad taste to say so as they enjoy Spinning in so many circles that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Cherish, Daily Prompt, Ice Dance, Ice Skate, Identical, Romance, Symmetrical, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Our Hearts and Not the Opinions of Others Form Our Honor
“Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions, form our true honor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Tagged Consensus, Heart, Honor, Opinion, Popular, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: Tyranny and Oppression Will Come To America In the Name of Fighting Some Foreign Enemy
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” -James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836) Power corrupts, right? There is no greater time that those in power have … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Enemy, First Principles, Foreign, James Madison, Oppression, Tyranny
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How Darkness Wins
How Darkness Wins by Michael Romani Sometimes it feels like “it’s a bad day” Has somehow become our last best way It’s hard to move forward with the feeling That our whole world keeps on reeling Life lives with way … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversary, Bad Day, Clarity, Community, Faith, Feeling, Madness, Nation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reeling, Sadness
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Blush
There was a sort of blush to that roseate looking sky It was the sort of sunset that would have caught my eye Even without the dissent of dissonance and chaos of disorder Out there seen slightly edgy and oddly … Continue reading
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Tagged Blush, Chaos, Daily Prompt, Dissonance, Roseate, Silver Lining, Sky, Storm, Surf, Surfer, Waves, Wordpress
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 