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Thought For the Day: There Is Always Something To Do To Make This World A Better Place
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Clothe, Comfort, Feed, Heal, Hunger, Nikki Giovanni, Personal, Save the World, Something, Thought For the Day
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Daily Prompt – Direction
With what seemed just a little bite Tony’s life entered a different direction It wasn’t so much a sudden insight But it a little more than a slight infection The hunger was intense and insatiable It knew no manners and needed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bite, Brains, Daily Prompt, Direction, Infection, Insatiable, Insight, Life, manners, Movies, Scream, Stains, Turned, Victims, Zombie
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Thought For the Day: People Only Have Their Kind of Love To Give; Not Our Kind
“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.” – Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (6 Jun 1913-1983)
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Tagged Hard, Kind, Learn, Lesson, Love, Mignon McLaughlin, People, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Congress Is Meant To Be Limited With Enumerated Powers
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” — James … Continue reading
Earthly Gnome
A poem for the element of Earth: Earthly Gnome by Michael Romani Grimble Gromble Plays as the piper At the gates of dawn Watching his fallacies crumble Hiding within the cypre Feeling as faithful as a swan As discarded images … Continue reading
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Tagged Dawn, Earth, Faithful, Fallacy, Foolishness, Gnome, Gold, Grimble Gromble, Home, Photograph, Piper, Poem, Poetry, Treasure, Wisdom
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Daily Prompt – Shade
… And so it goes With our best laid plans Unmade in the shade Only to be remade There in the shadows Of woman and man There is talk Of a walk Into complexity Away from simplicity Seeing things in … Continue reading
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Tagged Complexity, Daily Prompt, Dreams, Man, Photograph, Plans, Shade, Shadows, Woman
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First Principles: The Voice of Reason Is Too Often Drowned Out for Immediate and Immoderate Gains
“But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Federalist Papers, First Principles, Gain, Greed, Immediate, Immoderate, Impatience, James Madison, Mild, Modesty, Ruin, Voice of Reason
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Thought For the Day: There Is Little To Gain In Worrying About Our Birth Or Our Death
“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.” – Federico García Lorca, poet, playwright, and painter (5 Jun 1898-1936)
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Tagged Birth, Burden, Death, Federico Garcia Lorca, Life, Thought For the Day, Worry
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Beckoned By Her Fire
This poem transpired based on multiple pieces of conversations overheard or spoken to me that a friend then challenged me to turn into a poem: Beckoned By Her Fire by Michael Romani Her voice beckoned to me Like that moth … Continue reading
Daily Prompt – Midnight
Midnight Six hours before First Light There’s a creeper at the door Doubled edged The sword at play Suspicions alleged Convictions that stay Nothing more horrific Than those things Once thought terrific That moon light brings And who is it … Continue reading
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Tagged Creeper, Daily Prompt, First Light, Midnight, Night, Photograph, Shadows, Watcher
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