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Category Archives: Poetry and Poems
A Bleakness of Breath
Continuing on my semi-gothic mood, Halloween Poem #8: A Bleakness of Breath by Michael Romani In a cemetery of bleakness Down from the Devil’s house In a coldness that speaks of this There is a tremble as quiet as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Apparition, Bleak, Breath, Buried, Carried, Caw, Cemetery, Child, Cold, Crawl, Daughter, Dead, Death, Deliver, Devil, Disguise, End, Evil, God, Good, Goth, Guest, Halloween, Lilith, Lost, Morbid, Mortal, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Raven, Resistance, Serene, Sinners, Sixpence, Spite, Striking Distance, Struggle, Tremble, Troubles, Venom, Vision
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In A Monster’s Waltz
Halloween poem #7 In A Monster’s Waltz by Michael Romani May the lost souls be found No matter how or how unsound Too long happiness has been elusive For those rejected and now reclusive Frankenstein each of us in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Calamity, Castaway, Dance, Dare, Dark, Dignity, Dream, Elusive, Eyes, Frankenstein, Fright, Halloween, Happy, Humanity, Legacy, Lies, Lost Soul, Mephistopheles, Misfortune, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reclusive, Reject, Stormy Night, Waltz
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Betrayed With A Kiss
Halloween Poem #6 – Once you’re under evil’s dominion, it doesn’t matter how you got there. Does it? Betrayed With A Kiss by Michael Romani With a kiss, we turned the key Sinking deep into your debauchery It’s certain I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Attitude, Betray, Bite, Blade, Bllind, Broken, Company, Content, Controll, Cure, Debauchery, Debt, Defiance, Demon, Disdain, Distraction, Dominion, Door, Ease, Enchant, Escape, Essence, Evil, Firelight, Gratitude, Halloween, Hate, Howl, Key, Kind, Kiss, Know, Letha, Lost, Madness, Mistress, Night, Owe, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Reliance, Return, Righteous, Sad, Satisfaction, Science, Secret, Servant, Slave, Slice, Soul, Spare, Spirit, Table, Throat, Unholy
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Pick Up Sticks
Canines and mankind have a relationship that has recently been discovered to be much older than thought for most of my life. The estimate I heard today on an audiobook about animal behavior placed this friendship back over 100,000 years … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Apache, Bag, Boy, Brave, Canine, Coyote, Creatures, Cry, Dark, Evil, Fear, Harshness, Hell, Howl, Illusion, Innocent, Light, Lucifer, Mankind, Night, Petroglyph, Photograph, Pick Up, Poem, Poetry, Satan, Shade, Sinner, Sky, Sticks, Sunlight, Tale, Trick, Wall, Winner, Wolf
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Dracul’s Prey
The real Dracul was as deadly perhaps as the Bram Stoker monster. But what if they were one in the same? Dracul’s Prey by Michael Romani The clan of the dragon Is one founded in corruption Dracul meaning the dragon … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, Blood, Blood Bath, Bram Stoker, Century, Conception, Corrupt, Dare, Darkness, Deception, Die, Dracul, Dragon, Drain, Empire, Evill, Find, Hunt, Isolation, Killer, Light, Live, Monster, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Predation, Prey, Seduce, Tale, Tell, War, Wicked
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Rose’s Thorn
Halloween Poem #3 Rose’s Thorn by Michael Romani The rose’s thorn bled it’s blood Chosen to drag my soul through the mud Clever thought I in the transparency Lost in its morbid transcendency Condemned to the darkened dust Struggling in … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Blade, Blame, Blood, Blush, Clever, Condemn, Cost, Cruel, Danger, Defile, Drool, Dust, Eyes, Halloween, Lost, Lush, Morbid, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Rose, Shatter, Soul, Still, Stranger, Strong, Struggle, Thorn, Transparent, Tuth, Twist, Unkempt, Vicious, Wheel, World, Wrong
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Blood On Our Hands
Halloween poem #2 – mankind has the worse monsters and is seldom as kind as we might be if only we could. Blood On Our Hands by Michael Romani Our brutalities serve to shape us Though we wish to deny … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Asylum, Atrocity, Belief, Better, Blood, Brother, Brutality, Certain, Creature of the Night, Cure, Dawn, Deny, Dignity, Doctor, Fail, Fatal, Forget, Forgivver, God, Halloween, Hands, Heavy, Heoes, Humane, Humanity, Killers, Laugh, Live, Memory, Monster, Night, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push, Remake, Right, River, Seen, Shadow, Shape, Sister, Sleep, Stir, Toll, Unafraid, Vanity, Watch
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Halloween Is Coming
October 1st. It must be a day for many things. But as the night comes to an end, felt like an old friend, I feel Halloween coming on… Halloween Is Coming by Michael Romani In the distance, I hear the … Continue reading
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Tagged Badlands, Beast, Blame, Blood, Card, Claw, Come, Darkness, Distance, Drum, Embrace, Evil, Guilt, Halloween, Heart, Hello, Hiss, Holiness, Light, Mask, Murder, Necklace, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quench, Repentance, River, Serpent, Shame, Sin, Stay, Stench, Sundown, Tale, Trick, True Face, Unleash, Vain, Venom, Wash, Whisper
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In Defense of Human Reason
Too many people have forgotten the processes of empirical observation and its accompanying reasoning as the basis for real science. This insistence of substituting in dogma and speculation in the name of a hijacked science and failure to adhere to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, Being, Civilization, Concept, Crisis, Cutlure, Defense, Define, Denial, Distinguish, Dumbing Down, Emprical, Essential, Expression, False, Force, Great, Human Reason, Law, Less, Mankind, Matter, Meaning, Modern World, Observation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prophet, Refine, Religion of Science, Sceintific Materialism, Science, Search, Season, Semantics, Truth, Word Games
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Crossed Paths
Touch and go for the soul. Crossed Paths by Michael Romani Silent like a river Life continues to flow What is today Will soon be long ago The things we hold onto The things we believe They mean so much … Continue reading