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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Thwart
It is just another faded neon night Straight from a jaded Hollywood screen Another star falls from the spotlight Out on the boulevard of broken dreams This is a song for the broken hearted All the wouldbes who have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken Dreams, Broken Hearted, Change of Mind, Daily Prompt, Fade, Guitar Hero, Jaded, Neon Night, Rewind, Second Wind, Thwart, Wordpress
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First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Becomes Oppression; Without Law Liberty Become Licentiousness
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1790 An excellent resource with respect to this work … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, James Wilson, Law, Lectures On Law, Liberty, Licentiousness, Nature, Oppression
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Thought For the Day: Bad Weather Looks Worse Through A Window
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” – Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928)
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Tagged Bad Weather, Cognition, Distortion, Experience, Prespective, Thought For the Day, Tom Lehrer, Window, Worse
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Blank Verse For the Conforming Poet
Blank Verse For the Conforming Poet by Michael Romani Listen she tells me that often enough It’s a simple thing to learn if you try But it’s often things so simple that I Find so very hard to do so … Continue reading
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Tagged Blank Verse Workshop, Conforming, Form, Learn, Marching In Place, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry
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Blank Verse Childhood
Okay, so sometimes I live my life like a Toys R Us Kid….. but…I was at a poetry workshop yesterday and we were looking at how to correctly do blank verse poems. This is the second one I came up … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Pocket, Backyards, Blank Verse, Bliss, Cards, Cherish, Childhood Dreams, Memories, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Skinned Knees, Sun Kissed, Technique, Toys R US Kid, Treasure, Trees
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Choices of Roads Best Traveled
Choices of Roads Best Traveled by Michael Romani Choices in the roads we travel Are choices that do quite ravel The ways we take up and live Choices of the road may forgive But there are fundamentals to know And … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Christ, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Inspiration, Narrow, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Roads, Sins, Temptations, Traveled, Trust, Worldly, Worship
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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 First Principles, James Madison, Peace, Settled Policy, Tribute, United States of America, War
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Thought For the Day: Happily Ever After Is Made One Day At A Time
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” – Margaret Bonnano
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Tagged Day To Day, Fairy Tales, Happily Ever After, Happy, Margaret Bonnano, Possible, Thought For the Day
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Inchoate
Is it maybe a just little too late To take us back to a time inchoate Where peace reigned in the village And our memories would not pillage The innocence of only just yesterday Before all these troubles came our … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Daily Prompt, Inchoate, Innocence, Late, Nostalgia, Pillage, Tomorrow, Village, Wordpress, Yesterday
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First Principles: Honor Forbids Us To Surrender Freedom
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading
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Tagged First Prinicples, Freedom, Honor, Humanity, Justice, No Surrender, Posterity, Thomas Jefferson
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