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Restore My Soul
Based in part on Psalms 23:1-3: Restore My Soul by Michael Romani The Lord restores my soul Keeping it all in control Like a shepherd to his sheep All in peace, He keeps Tending to us as a flock Keeping us … Continue reading
Daily Prompt – First
Seems to me at first glance That a lot is left to chance When you study the past You find what didn’t last Wondering how it connects Into the future and directs The paths yet to be Flowing into our … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Book, Chance, Confluence, Connections, Dail Phone, Daily Prompt, Directions, First, Future, Glance, Infinity, Influence, Path, Standalone, Study, Watch
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First Principles: The Known Propensity of Democracy Is Toward Licentiousness
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.” – Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
Thought For the Day: We Pay Our Debt To the Past In the Inheritance We Pay the Future
“We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” – John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician (26 Aug 1875-1940)
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Tagged Debt, Future, Inheritance, John Buchan, Past, Pay, Thought For the Day, We
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Short Form Poetry – Tercou – Big And Vicious
Tonight’s workshop: What is a Tercou • 8 line poem of 3 stanzas. • First 2 stanzas are tercets • Third stanza is a couplet • Syllable count is 5/4/5, 5/4/5, 8/6 • Rhyme scheme aba aba aa After some … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Alive, Category Four, Coast, Disaster, Fear, Hurricane Florence, Rain, Short Form Poetry, Survive, Tercou
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Seventeen Years To This Day
On 9/11/2001, cowards struck and killed many innocent people for wrongs mostly imagined, some perhaps real. But, none of these directly attributable to 99% who died that day. Let’s never, ever forget this. Seventeen Years To This Day by Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, Blood, Blood Lust, Cowards, Forget, Helter Skelter, Heroes, History, Innocents, Legacy, Moment, Pentagon, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Regret, Sacred Ground, Torment, Twin Towers
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Thought For the Day: Censorship Reflects A Society’s Lack of Self Confidence
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.” – Justice Potter Stewart (1915-1985)
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Tagged Censorship, Confidence, Justice Potter Stewart, Reflect, Society, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Reason Is the Guard Against Humanity’s Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, First Principles, Guard, Mankind, Reason, Rudder, Ship, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson, Wreck
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Daily Prompt – Grimace
The chains that bind us to our dark embrace Are the chains that make me stop and grimace Is there even a ghost of a chance at second glance Bringing all of this back into some balance? Tell me now, … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized
Tagged Balance, Chains, Chance, Children, Cost, Daily Prompt, Dark, First Duty, Grimace, Innocent, Let Them Be, Lost, Love, Protect, Second Glance, Tug of War, Wrath
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Lasting Changes
Based in part on Hebrews 12:1: Lasting Changes by Michael Romani Lasting change can be elusive Burdens are felt so intrusive It seems that in our gut We get stuck in a rut It’s a fatalistic mentality That feeds our mortality … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Burden, Change, Christ, Drive, Effort, Elusive, Faith, Fake It, Fatalistic, Foward, Hebrews, Key, Living Testimony, Make It, Mankind, Mercy, Mortality, Persistance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pressing On, Push, Relief, Resistance, Responsibility, Rut, Servant, Unworthy, Victory
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