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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 25: Handle With Care
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 25 challenge is to write a poem that takes the form of a warning label. Handle With Care by Michael Romani There in all that subterfuge misspoke Are the mirrors of the hearts we broke Token glimpses … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Graceless Games, Handle With Care, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Subterfuge, Warning Label
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Girding My Heart
Based on the Book of Psalms: Girding My Heart by Michael Romani With my whole heart I seek Him Guarding my life by the decision That is not just a frivolous whim But one made from the precision Of guarding … Continue reading
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Tagged Girding, Heart, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psalms, Rebuke, Repentence, the Word
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Elaborate
Life, in all of its many details, Offers much that compels From the simple to the elaborate There is so much to celebrate So much to stimulate No need to complicate But to breath in as you breathe out Ends … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Believe, Breath of Life, Compels, Daily Prompt, Details, Elaborate, Good Things, Joy, Life, Proclaim, Simple, Stimulate, Wordpress
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First Principles: Sovereign Power Tends To Be Hostile To Those Seeking Restraint Of Its Operations
“There is in the nature of sovereign power an impatience of control, that disposes those who are invested with the exercise of it, to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Animus, Control, Direction, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Hostile, Impatience, Nature, Restraint, Sovereign Power
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Thought For The Day: To Be A Writer, You Must Read and Write A Lot
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” – Stephen King Personally, if … Continue reading
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Tagged Desire, No Shortcut, Read, Stephen King, Thought For the Day, Write, Writer
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Annihilation of Meaning
Annihilation of Meaning by Michael Romani Woman seeks to question meaning itself As something organic and from a shelf An encroachment consuming some entirely And leaving others grieving, angry and lonely The fixity of womanhood has its own complexity But, … Continue reading
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Tagged Annihiliation, Bontany, Complex, Curious, Disorder, Earth, Fixity, Hearth, Humanity, Meaning, Organic, Original Sin, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Woman
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First Principles: No Government Can Restrain Humanity Set Free By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.” – John Adams (1798) .. But GQ thinks you should read smutty fiction instead…
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Tagged Contention, First Principles, Government, Human Passion, John Adams, Morality, Power, Religion, Republican, The Bible, Unbridled
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Thought For the Day: It Takes Courage To Grow Into Who You Really Are
“It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are. “ — e.e. cummings
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Tagged Children, Courage, e.e. cummings, Grow Up, Identity, Individuals, Self, Thought For the Day
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 