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Valentine’s Way Tanka
It’s Valentine’s Day.. so.. Happy Valentine’s Day to anyone out there reading these attempts at poetry formats. The next format is said to be the short song origin of the Haiku. The Tanka is Poem of the Day #8 format … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreams, Face, Milkwood, Morn, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Tanka, Valentine's Day, Way
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Valentine’s Day Villanelle
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #7 is at best very difficult. The form is the Villanelle. The word prompt is ‘tide’. The villanelle consists of: “19 lines. Two rhymes. Two lines that repeat. Six stanzas – five are three lines each … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Best Friend, Cruel, Defend, Dinner, End, God, Knows, Light, Man, Milkwood, Movie, Peace, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Spoof, Television, Think, Tide, Told, Valentine's Day, Villanelle
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Thought For the Day: We Have A Moral Responsibility To Protect God’s Creation For Generations To come
“We have a moral responsibility to protect God’s creation for generations to come.“ – Nancy Pelosi Precisely, Ms. Pelosi.. stop right at that juncture and you couldn’t be more right. Which is why Nicki Haley responded what immediately came to … Continue reading
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Tagged Generations, God's Creation, Humanity, Moral, Nancy Pelosi, Nicki Haley, Protect, Reponsibility, Thought For the Day, Touche, We
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First Principles: Keep The Celestial Fire of Conscience Alive In Your Heart
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
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Tagged Alive, Breast, Celestial Fire, Conscience, George Washington, Labor, Spark
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Hunting Himmler – A Found Poem
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #6 is the Found Poem form and has as its word prompt “gravity”. A found poem is quite literally that. Scanning through the written material of others a little snatch of verbiage here and there catch’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allies, Chaos, Checkpoint, Collaborate, Conspiracy, Cruel, Cyanide, Defeat, Destruction, Devil, Disguise, Dr. Wells, Due, Elbe, Escape, Found Poem, German, Henrich Himmler, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Humanity, Identity, Industrial, Justice, Legacy, Mercedes Benz, Mistake, Nazi Germany, Newsreel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prisoner of War, Prussic Acid, Refugees, Reich, Served, Sinister, Society, Villans
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Thought For the Day: Fascism Is What Comes After Communism Is Proved An Illusion
“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.” – FA Hayak
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Tagged Communism, FA Hayak, Fascism, Illusion, Stage, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Humanity Naturally Indulges False Hope While Shutting Our Eyes to Painful Truth
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.” – Patrick Henry, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beasts, Eyes, First Principles, Illusions, Indulge, Man, Natural, Pain, Patrick Henry, Shut, Siren, Song, Transform, Truth
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Parallel Parking Haibun
Poem A Day #5 has the Haibun as it’s form. The word prompt is ‘parallel’. That led to some creative thinking on my part. What does one write about with parallel.. geography or basic driving…. “A Haibun = a prose … Continue reading
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Tagged Blank Spot, Blind Faith, Experience, Faith, Gratitude, Haibun, Haiku, Islands, Journey, Judgment, Lessons, Life, Mainland, Nail, Parallel, Parallel Park, Poem A Day #5, Poetry, Prose Poem, Seams, Strain, Surf, Teen
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Dream Big Ghazal
Poem A Day #4 is to be of the Ghazal poetry form. Ghazals were originally popularized and written by such notables as Rumi and Hafiz of Persia. Through the influence of Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe Ruth, Courage, Daughters, Discourage, Distance, Dream Big, Dreams, Edison, Encourage, Father, Focus, Ghazal, Goethe, Home Run King, Little Girls, Locus, Love, Music, Nighttime, North Star, Nurture, Poem A Day, Poetry, Promise, Right Thing, Rumi, Science, Sing, Sleep, Star
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Thought For the Day: Much of What Forms Our Customs Is An Accident of Birth
“I see too plainly custom forms us all. Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth. “– Aaron Hill, dramatist and writer (10 Feb 1685-1750)
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Tagged Belief, Birth Place, Consequence, Custom, Form, Moral, Plain, See, Thought, Thought For the Day
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