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Thought For the Day: Making the World More Honest
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.— Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian If, like me, you wish for a better world, start with yourself. There … Continue reading
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Tagged Honest, Making the World A Better Place, Scoundrel, Thomas Carlyle
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Nocturne #31
Today is the seventeenth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo. Its topical choice is to write a nocturne. A poem for the night might be the subject of a penny dreadful or a tale of romance. For me, this night, it becomes more … Continue reading
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Tagged Damnation, Dawn, Lily, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Nocturne, Penny Dreadful
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A Letter To My Daughters
Day Sixteen of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo has the challenge of writing a letter as a poem. What a fascinating concept that is to me. Many letters along the path of my have incorporated blurbs of poems and tried to express things by … Continue reading
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Tagged Dancing, Daughters, Father, Hands, Letter Poem, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Prayer
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First Principles – Peace Through Strength
“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
Self Inflicted Purgatory (Day 15)
Going back over this past weekend’s challenges in writing at least a poem a day, I find that the day 15 challenge for NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo is to write something regarding the middle. Which middle? Apparently, any middle will do. I picked … Continue reading
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Tagged Empty Mind, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Philosophy, Purgatory, Stuck In the Middle With You, Themes
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Thought For the Day: Less War; More Waging Peace
Though truly more wishful thinking than reality, it’s still a great point. Mankind should maybe devote a little more time, resources and thought toward waging peace than war. Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Shortage, Mankind, Peter Ustinov, Waging Peace, Wishful Thiking
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Resurrection Day 2017
Ally and I decided to attend church this evening together after my princesses in real went back to their mother’s place. While I listened to the minister preach his sermon, I reflected on the many blessings God gives me and … Continue reading
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Tagged Extraordinary, Healing Balm, Restoration, Resurrection Day, Sermon
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A Clerihew For Hillary
Day 14 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo consists of writing a four line biographical poem more or less poking fun at some public figure. A Clerihew For Hillary by Michael Romani “Are you with me?”, she asked In her arrogance, she basked … Continue reading
Rumi’s Secret
Day 13 of the month long challenge was to write a ghazal. It’s a nice traditional Persian form that has lent itself to the English literary world. I wrote a poem or two off topic and now am coming … Continue reading
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Tagged Compulsion, Rumi, Secret Love, Shakespeare, Souk, Umayyad Mosque, Walt Whitman
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