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First Principles: Our Contest Is Not Only Whether We…Shall Be Free, But Whether There Shall Be Left To Mankind An Asylum On Earth For Civil and Religious Liberty
“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” – Samuel Adams, in Speech at the State … Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum, Civil and Religious Liberty, Contest, Countrymen, Courage, Earth, First Principles, Free, Left, Mankind, Ourselves, Samuel Adams
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The Lateness of the Hour
Returning back to a promised project that was set down for a time and based in part on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour by Michael Doyle In a labyrinth of the mind’s imprecision We … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Anger, Artistic, Asylum, Automated, Automaton, Back Story, Belong, Bill, Chance, Chorus, Clock Hands, Comfort, Competition, Confront, Console, Constrain, Contempt, Control, Cost, Counter Argument, Craving, Creation, Creature, Daughter, Decay, Deliberation, Design, Difference, Dimension, Discontent, Distraught, Disturbing, Dream, Empty, Environment, Exposure, False, Family, Father, Feel, Felt, Fine, Free, Glide, Hand Dealt, Harshly, Heart, Hour, Humanity, Ill Afford, Imprecision, Infer, Insular, Intentional, Irritation, Labyrinth, Lateness, Lost, Love, Maid, Mausoleum, Measure, Mechanical, Memories, Memory Track, Menagerie, Mental, Mental Inventory, Museum, Neuroses, No Strings, Noise, One Dance, Outside, Own Mind, Passing Day, Perfect, Petulant, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Pond, Poverty, Prattle, Prefection, Prejudice, Pride, Project, Quality, Ravages of Time, Reach, Real, Recitation, Recount, Recreated, Reference, Refine, Relative, Repetition, Rest, Right, Rigor, Robots, Safe, Sameness, Science, Second, Secret, Security, Sensation, Serenity, Share, Shrill, Speak, Speech, Stone Thrown, Stormy Night, Strive, Stumble, Superaltive, Survival, The Twilight Zone, Tick, Tick Tock, Toys, Travel, Twist, Twist of Fate, Understand, Unhappy, Unruffled, Vegetable, War, Will, Willful, Wish, World, Worn Out
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First Principles: America Should Be A Land of Safe and Agreeable Asylum To the Virtuous and Persecuted, Whatever Nation They May Come From
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” – George Washington
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Tagged Agreeable, Asylum, First Principles, George Washington, Hope, Land, Mankind, Nation, Persecute, Safe, Virtuous
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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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Beauty In A Blade of Grass
It isn’t so long ago that mental illness was seen as the Devil’s work. I was watching a show tonight and it reminded me of this. Beauty In A Blade of Grass by Michael Romani Scratching at the walls Of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Asylum, Beauty, Blade, Claw, Closure, Compromise, Devil, Fear, Grass, Madness, Memory, Mental Illness, Obscene, Outlaw, Pain, Pass, Perception, Photograph, Pinky Swear, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sanity, Satan, Shade, Shame, Soul, Walls, Wicked, Wrath
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First Principles: Our Republic Is Intended Give Mankind Civil and Religious Liberty
“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” – Samuel Adams, Speech at the State House, … Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum, Civil, Contest, Countrymen, Courage, Earth, First Principles, Free, Liberty, Mankind, Religious, Samuel Adams
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Na/GloPoWriMo 6: Comprehending the Asylum
The challenge for day 6 is to compose a poem of uneven lines. Having sat through a standup comic’s routine and finding some tantalizing insights in his skits, I came up with this. Comprehending the Asylum by Michael Romani Outside … Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum, Blame, Game, Infinite Wishes, Innocence, Photographs, Pitch, Poems, Poetry, River of Life, Salesman, Understanding, Uneven Lines, Upending, World
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