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Thought For the Day: Declining Civilizations Are Marked With A Tendency Toward Uniformity and Standardization
“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.” – Arnold Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
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Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Character, Civilization, Conquest, Consistent, Decline, History, Moral Decay, Standardization, Tendency, Thought For the Day, Uniformity
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Thought For the Day: A Writer Writes From Empathy More Than Experience
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” – Nikki Giovanni
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Tagged Admit, Empathy, Experience, Hesitate, Nikki Giovanni, One Book, Poems, Thought For the Day, Write, Writers
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First Principles: The Militia Consists of the Whole People
“I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” – George Mason
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Tagged Ask, Exception, First Principles, George Mason, Militia, Public Officials, Whole People
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Music Like Ideas
Post-Punk was a thing right? 😉 See if you can tell which band this poem alludes to if you can. Might be fun. Music Like Ideas by Michael Romani Coming from a time when Music sounded like ideas It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Architecture, Chill, Cold, Complex, Disintegration, Echo, Fascination, Feel, Fixation, Folk Music, History, Human Beings, Idea, Ilusion, Incantation, Integration, Joy Division, Laurel, Layer, Life, Matter, Maxim, Moment, Music, Night, Otherness, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modern, Post Punk, Post-Industrial, Primeval, Provocation, Ritual, Searing Light, Severe, Shard, Showbiz, Slip, Space, Sun, Time
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An Obsession of Shadow
The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World
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Thought For the Day: Every Particle of Life Holds Poetry
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” – Gustave Flaubert
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Tagged Bear, Gustave Flaubert, Life, Particle, Poetry, Thought For the Day
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Nostalgia for Guantanamo (Reposted)
Attempting to work out the WordPress formatting glitch for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 on a place of origin: Nostalgia For Guantanamo by Michael Romani Nostalgia beats as a fond memory Of lived love and hearth of family Fondness of the heart … Continue reading
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Filthy Habits
It seems to me that most of humans have a little duality in our nature. I could be wrong. I often am. Filthy Habits by Michael Romani The beast seeks the dark The angel seeks the light The physician said … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Beast, Dark, Duality, Eyes, Filthy Habit, Human Nature, Light, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sight, Snark, Surprise, Window
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Relative Complicity
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 12 asks that we who take up the challenge of finding something dull that we’re willing to give away. Well, sorry, but I’m twisting this into something that can never be owned, only given and that is so … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Attraction, Beautiful, Beauty, Brave, Breathtaking, Clarity, Complicity, Distance, Einstein, Extraordinary, Given, Good, Gravity, Grow, Heart, Hold Onto, Hour, Imposture, Insist, Journey, Love, Me and You, Mean, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obscene, One, Our, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Power of Love, Presistence, Rarity, Realize, Relative, Routine, Scene, Share, Shown, Simplicity, Soul, Speak, Spectacular, Start, Strong, Surrender, Talk, Tender, Together, Unfold, Unknown, Wonderful, World
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