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Mirror, Mirror…
Some people amuse. Others are a muse… by birth. The lady asked me for a poem to match her beautiful photograph. This was the best, I could do. Mirror, Mirror… by Michael Romani There she was sitting beside the ocean … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Better Man, Capricorn, Emotion, Journey, Muse, Ocean, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Side By Side, Soul, Understanding, Virgo
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Neruda Blues
Neruda Blues by Michael Romani If there came a day When you might look my way I think that I would smile No, I know that I would Through my longest mile Feeling the good of your good Your dreams … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beauty, Blues, Depth, Distance, Dreams, Hello, Pablo Neruda, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revealing, Seen, Smile, Soul, Touch
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Thought For the Day: Windstorms Carve the Beauty of Canyons
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul 1926-2004)
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Tagged Beauty, Canyon, Carve, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Shield, Thought For the Day, Windstorm
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Astonish
Looking on, it is astonishing how the hands of God spread And all the destinations on which they’ve quietly led The world is filled with so much of what we call beauty That I feel, in part, it is my … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Artistry, Astonish, Beauty, Christian Duty, Daily Prompt, God, Hands of God, Journey, Mastery, Nature, Pageantry, Photography, Tapestry, Witness, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: The Truest Beauty of A Woman Shines From the Inside Out
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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Tagged Adornment, Beauty, Body, Freedom, Gilt Cage, Infancy, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mind, Prison, Soul, Taught, Teach, Thought For the Day, Women
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Eye of the Beholder
The next in the series of poems based on now Episode 6 of Season 2 of the Twilight Zone for my eldest princess: Eye of the Beholder by Michael Romani Suspended in a time and space of harshness Miss Janet … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beauty, Conformity, Eye of the Beholder, Ghetto, Normalacy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prejudice, Standard, The Twilight Zone, Tyranny, Ugliness
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Branch
There is beauty in so many surprising things Unexpected joy that makes the heart sing Everywhere it is there waiting to be found If we’d only look for it as it surrounds An exposure of gnarled branches in a ravine … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Beauty, Branch, Daily Prompt, Dream, Drop, Gnarled Branches, Heart Song, Life, Ocean, Pause, Peace, Poetry In Motion, Ravine, Reflection, Strife, Surprising, Surrounding, Tales, Trails, Wordpress
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A Glass House of Orchids
A Glass House of Orchids by Michael Romani If I could, I would start the day over and begin To go with my girls to that artsy green house again That is to say if they would let us back … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beauty, Bloom, Daughters, Examination, Feminine Wile, Fragrance, Glass, Greenhouse, Mortality, Orchids, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Smile, Symbolism, Vitality
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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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