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First Principles: One Great Object of the Constitution Was To Restrain Majorities From Oppressing Minorities or Encroaching On Their Just Rights
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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 calamity Darers to still dream in our legacy Whatever misfortunes and mischance Let us again dare to still dance Castaway as if cast together A Mephistophelian Waltz; no better Sheltered in our dance of lies We seek our best in each other's eyes Quiet conversation on a stormy night We've seen the worse and no longer know fright Darkness may have erased our humanity But, we won't allow it to take our last dignity (c) October 7, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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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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First Principles: The Strongest of All Governments Is That Which Is Most Free
“I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.” – John Tyler
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Thought For the Day: It Is the Courage To Continue That Counts
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
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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 should seek better company But your essence has become a part of me Drinking there by the firelight Healed by all the secrets of the night Burdened by anger and by sadness You've lost yourself inside your madness I sought hard to find your unholy cure Returning you back to who you were But in who you are, you find satisfaction An my presence is just your fatal distraction You speak to me as if to ease my conscience Pretending your righteousness as if it were science Where I had sought after our loving reliance All you had to offer was disdain and defiance Lavished in your spiritual brokenness Your hatred spattered in your outspokenness Whispering a hiss of how I owe you gratitude That you allowed me to withstand your lethal attitude Blade to my throat, you claim it great kindness That you spare my life while demanding my blindness Seductress and demon only just one slice away Instead you show me the door and send me on my way Welcomed to your table of unfortunate plight Like a howl you allow me to escape into the night Spared for the moment but keeping me always owing An unspent debt at best I'll be forever knowing Mistress and servant, I am under your control Your vicious bite has stolen my very soul Still you smile fiendishly in contentment Secure in knowing that I am enslaved by your enchantment (c) October 6, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: The Only Legitimate Right To Govern Is An Express Grant of Power From the Governed
“We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.” – William Henry Harrison
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Thought For the Day: Make Sure That You Haven’t Lost the Things That Money Can’t Buy
“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George H. Lorimer, editor (6 Oct 1867-1937)
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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 ago. What if it was longer ago then that?
Pick Up Sticks by Michael Romani Petroglyphs on a painted wall Telling the howl of the coyote's call The world began from his bag of darkness As he freed the night creatures in their harshness Mankind was found to be diseased and afraid Preferring sunlight over the lightest shade Until a boy was born who fought his brave way Bringing the Apache back to the light of day As so we enter from darkness into light To conquer all the evil of the night We raise our voices with a mighty cry To fight against the ever darkening sky The wolf loves the howling of darkness Striking fear with its stark harshness Slaughtering innocents in the name of Hell Lucifer's animals rise in our dark tale Played out in illusions and deceptive tricks Like a macabre game of pick up sticks In which ever player is a lover and sinner And only Satan rises to become the final winner (c) October 5, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: Genuine Morality Is Preserved Only In the School of Adversity
“It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.” – Friedrich Schiller
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First Principles: The Less Government Interferes With Private Pursuits, the Better For General Prosperity
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.” – Martin Van Buren
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