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Thunder Road
Robert Mitchum wrote and starred in a movie way back in the 1950s that spoke to the ways of moonshiners and their dispute with the Revenue men. It touched on many topics that each could be made their own poems. … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Woods, Backs, Breeze, Code, Drive, Family, Honor, Living, Mile, Moon, Moonshine, Obstacle, Old, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Robert Mitchum, Scrapple, Tale, Tax, Thunder Road, Trees, Unforgiving, Veteran, Whippoorwills, Wink
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Thought For the Day: There Are No Limits To What Can Be Done Where Credit For It Doesn’t Matter
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Accomplish, Credit, Limit, Mankind, Person, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day
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Impulsive Inclinations
Seems a common characteristic in humanity that we have this propensity toward self destruction. This was brought to mind in a movie that I was watching earlier today. Impulsive Inclinations by Michael Romani In our life’s traveling Some find themselves … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Drink, Imprecision, Impulse, Incline, Life, Meaning, Overthinking, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Self Destruction, Self Taught, Trick of Light
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One
All life began from one cell. Sometimes cells mutate in less than desirable ways. One by Michael Romani A cell Four and a half billon years ago A cell Divided into two Then as though compelled And having nowhere else … Continue reading
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Tagged Cell, Fight, Life, Love, Mutation, One, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason To Live, Strength, Unity
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In the Valley of the Wolf
Based on the reintroduction of wolves into some select wilderness areas: In the Valley of the Wolf by Michael Romani In a mixed experiment Between purpose and accident There is a blend On which side it might depend One side, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpha, Ancestral Home, Biology, Canis Lupus, Clearing, Cold, Fear, Freedom, Generation, Greeting, Harmony, Howl, Lost Connection, Mtyhology, Night, Personality, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Privilege, Resonant, Riparian, Shadow, Social, Solitary, Valley, Veneration, Winter's Day, Wolf, Wolves
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First Principles: Peace Is Better Than War; War Is Better than Tribute
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison (1816)
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Tagged America, First Principles, James Madison, Peace, Settled Policy, Tribute, War
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Worry About People Who Don’t Love You; Spend Your Time Loving Those Who Do
“I don’t have time to worry about who doesn’t like me … I’m too busy loving the people who love me.” – Snoopy
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Tagged Busy, Like, Love, Loving, People, Priceless, Rich, Snoopy, Thought For the Day, Time, Value, Worry
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Thought For the Day: Duty, Honor, Country, Service and Sacrifice Are the Hallmarks of Veterans
“My estimate of him was formed on the battlefields many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then, as I regard him now, as one of the world’s noblest figures; not only as one of the finest … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieve, Admire, Adversity, American Citizen, Battlefield, Birthright, Character, Country, Courage, Courage Under Fire, Douglas MaArthur, Duty, Eulogy, Example, Faith, Future, History, Honor, Hope, Military, Modesty In Victory, Mortality, Noble, Patience, Patriotism, Posterity, Rally Points, Sacrifice, Service, Thought For the Day, Virtue
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First Principles: A Debt of Gratitude Is Owed To All Veterans and Their Families, Especially Wives
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, ‘What should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Duty, First Principles, Gratitude, Honor, Injuries, Sacrifice, Samuel Adams, Service, Suicide, Thought
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