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Mathing the COVID-19 Curve
Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918 Influenza, Absence, Application, Base Reproduction Number, Basic, Breath, Business As Usual, Change, Common Sense, Consistent, Contact, Contact Rate, COVID-19, Crucial, Current Data, Curve, Daily, Death, Decrease, Degrees, Depend, Direction, Doubt, Early Action, Epidemic, Escape, Exponential, Fact, Fate, Feedback Loop, Fire, Flatten, Gasoline, Good Habits, Grave, Heal, Heed, Horror, Hospital Beds, Hour, Humans, Illness, Impact, Increase, Infected, Infection, Keep Calm, Land, Linear, Little, Lives, Logarithmic Scale, Map, Math, Medical Care, Mid-April, Mind, Mitigate, Model, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nations, Nerves, News Article, Non-Linear, Numb, Numbers, Outbreak, Overblown, Overflow, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Population, Potential, Power, Practice, Project, Proportion, Reduce, Remove, Resiliency, Sad, Safe, Same, Sanitation, Save, Seal, See, Seen, Shown, SIR Curve, Social Distancing, Society, Staggering, Steady, Straight Line, Supplication, Susceptible, Tale, Time, Trajectory Rates, Trouble, Understand, Vaccine, Virus
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Creativity’s Golden Seed
Coming soon to a mind near yours, the golden opportunity of a lifetime to have reasonable comfort while focusing on writing and photography. More information soon… let the transition begin… Creativity’s Golden Seed by Michael Romani The problem in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Appearance, Application, Balance, Change, Conception, Conform, Creativity, Crux, Cut to the Chase, Deal, Deception, Definition, Defmor, Design, Ease, Exist, Eye, Find, First Step, Gold, Good, Gravity, Illusion, Important, Imposition, Moment, Momentum, Need, New Goals, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Problem, Question, Reason, Scale, Seed, Seek, Self Delusion, Severity, Signal, Simplicity, Superficial, Supplication, Touch, Transition, Troll, Understood, Why, Zenith
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Ruined Absolution
This poem was meant for December 19, 2019. This is, among other observances, National Emo Day.. So Happy that… In my own confessional, I am struggling a bit these last few days with my upcoming birthday, Christmas almost here and … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Absolution, Afraid, Angst, Bangs, Beautiful, Brithday, Burn, Care, Chemical Romance, Christmas, Compression, Confession, Confessional, Contemplate, Dark, December 19 2019, Die, Do It Or Die, Embrace, Emotional, Escape, Expression, Fall, Fraught, Glance, Hair, Happy, Hollywood, Human Being, Ink, Inspiration, Intropective, Jet Black, Life, Little Girls, Love, National Emo Day, Nothing, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Question, Ruin, Savage, Sigh, Silence, Skinny Jeans, Sleeve, Smile, Something, Sonic Attack, Sorrow, Stride, Structure, Sunday, Taste, Tee Shirt, Tenderness, Thin, Think, Violence, Violin, Want, World, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: World Peace Must Develop From Inner Peace Manifesting From Compassion
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.” – Dalai Lama
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Tagged Absence, Compassion, Dalai Lama, Develop, Human, Inner, Manifestation, Peace, Thought For the Day, Violence, World
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Thought For the Day: Peace Comes Not From the Absence of Trouble, But, From the Presence of God
“Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.” – Alexander MacLaren
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Tagged Absence, Alexander MacLaren, Comes, God, Peace, Presence, Thought For the Day, Trouble
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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Presents Endear Absents
“Presents, I often say, endear absents.” – Charles Lamb, essayist (1775-1834)
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Tagged Absence, Absents, Charles Lamb, Endear, Presents, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: It Is the Flaws That Helps Create Beauty
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” – Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2 Feb 1859-1939)
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Tagged Absence, Abstraction, Beauty, Flaw, Havelock Ellis, Thought For the Day, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Liberty Is In the Hearts of the People
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Cherish, Devotion, Hearts, Judge Learned Hand, Liberty, Presence, Rule of Law, The People
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