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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Remnants of Dysfunction
Everyone likes a good ghost story, right? Remnants of Dysfunction by Michael Romani To tell a great ghost story Requires moving past gory But nothing strikes this passion Like a dilapidated mansion Remnants of dysfunction Are held in the conjunction … Continue reading
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Tagged Bells, Carillon, Conjunction, Door, Dread, Dysfunction, Edifice, Ghost Story, Gory, History, Jump Up Scare, Loss, Mansion, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Remnant, Suspense
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Ways of Freedom
From time to time, it seems necessary to think on choices made and principles kept. Ways of Freedom by Michael Romani “Times march on”, says the old soldier Remembering back on times bolder But some things are best and better … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Blood, Chains, Freedom, Heritage, Kingdom, Legacy, Liberty, Masses, Old Soldier, Patriot, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Progress, Regression, Security, Tears, Tradition, Tyranny, Violence
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Spiritual Nose Dive
Sometimes there is evil or whispers of evil behind even the seemingly most pristine of situations and circumstances. Spiritual Nose Dive by Michael Romani In the midst of the excavated The truth is revealed in the prevaricated It challenges the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Adjudicate, Better, Church, Condemn, Confront, Darkest Hour, Discord, Fail, Flaws, Front, Gallows, God, God's Law, Gossip, Holy Roller, Human Beings, Humanity, Humor, Hypocrisy, Indiscretion, Judgment, Lessons, Lies, Meaning, Meant, Nose Dive, Perfect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predator, Relevance, Resonate, Sanctity, Secrets, Sermons, Shadow, Sharpened Sword, Sin, Sown, Spiritual, Truth, Words
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Authenticity In Being
1 Peter 2:21 Authenticity In Being by Michael Romani To this then you have been called Because Christ as is recalled Suffered that we might be free And now we are to follow as He Being the real deal and … Continue reading
Do I Give Myself Too Easily?
Sometimes you wonder, right? https://flic.kr/p/2aLqEE8 Do I Give Myself Too Easily? by Michael Romani I don’t really think it too serious a question But, I approach this with some hesitation Because I have given you all of me so easily … Continue reading
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Tagged Closer, Dance, Deep, Doubt, Easy, Esteem, First Hello, Hesitation, Humor, Late Night, Love, Love At First Sight, Met, One, Passing Days, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Question, Self Control, Soul, Stride, Thoughts, True, Unforgettable, Value, Worth
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Ekphrastic Workshop – Sparkle Dim
The Tuesday night short poetry workshop tonight has to do with the Ekphrastic form of deriving a poem based on a work of art including digital art/photographs. From this I came up with the following: Sparkle Dim Ekprhastic by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Blessed, Dance, Dim, Ekprhastic, Free, Glowing, Gratitude, Growing, Karma, Love, Photograph, Platitide, Poem, Poetry, Share, Shatter, Smile, Sparkle, Understand, Workshop
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Legacy Rehashed
Sort of random with a bit of truth in the cervices: Legacy Rehashed by Michael Romani If we could drag the future Out into the past If feelings could somehow nurture All the things that didn’t last If we could … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspersions, Beginning, Blunder, Cervices, Details, Diamonds, Drops, End, Family, Fantasy, Friend, Future, Hand, Harmony, Hope, I, Kiss, Legacy, Love, Nurture, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Rehash, Reply, Rough, Star Crossed, Strife, Tales, Tomorrow, Truth, Unabashed, Wells, Winning, Wonder, You, Youth
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