“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” – Benjamin Franklin
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First Principles: The End of Our Republic Is Heralded By People Voting Themselves Money
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First Principles: No Government Has The Power to Contend With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
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Thought For the Day: Let Others Light Their Candles By Your Knowledge
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”– Margaret Fuller, author (23 May 1810-1850)
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Thought For the Day: Make the World A World A Little Better For Our Presence Through Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace and Kindliness
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
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In Remembrance of the Passage of the 19th Amendment
Lately, I have been a little distracted. Aloha Promises Forever would like to raise a toast to the Centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment that recognized the God given right for women in the US to vote. May it always be remembered that it was Republicans like Susan B. Anthony who championed this foremost and forced Woodrow Wilson to enact this against his will.
On this 100th Anniversary, please feel free to listen in above.
Graveled Voice
I was thinking the other day about another poet not so long ago another poet that I respect telling someone else that my shorter poems are more like rock lyrics. That probably comes as somewhat of a surprise to some. What short poems, right? 😉
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Graveled Voice by Michael Romani In the rock salt blast of decadence Where glowers blossom into transcendence I sometimes find it wiser to be blind Than see the mirrored times that I find In the graveled voice of modern poetry There is more going on than I usually see There are too many sleepless nights I've faced In all the high browed angst that I've embraced My guitar strings ring out in a tremble In a wordless prayer for a life more simple Ringing out for blue skies turning into gray As the failures of this man are sighed into yesterday Gentle melodies surface just to disappear As these wallow into memories of yesteryear New voices heard beckon into new directions Unknown and yet felt like karmic connections Lyrical ideas rendered into voiceless sadness Repeated kaleidoscopes of painted madness These intrude like a wrongfully tendered promise Like an apocalypse of strained compromises (c) May 23, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: Be the Change In the World That You Want To See
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” –
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First Principles: Freedom, Not Servitude, Is the Cure For Anarchy; True Faith Is the Cure For Superstition
“Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.” – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America, The Thirteen Resolutions (3/22/1775)
The Good Man Stands
Been spending some time at a Western museum lately. When you think on the lives lived, something like this might come to mind?
The Good Man Stands by Michael Romani Troubles come Troubles gone The good man stands As he carries on Laying rail Or busting sod All's the same In the name of God Out in the prairie dust It seems luck is the only God It becomes hard to trust When you're a broken as the sod Trouble comes And troubles gone The good man walk As he carries on All the tears, he ain't cried No time for that on the frontier Many's the friend who up and died But there ain't no time to shed a tear Life is hard Filled with action So little time To find satisfaction Trouble comes And troubles gone The good man breathes And carries on (c) May 22, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
Thought For the Day: Believe In the Immeasurable Power of Love
“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” – Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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