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Is There Hope?
I am feeling down today. Had way too long of a walk through prairie wildflowers and then woods in a riparian corridor, but, even that hasn’t cheered me up. Still, it has led another poem at least. Is There Hope? … Continue reading
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Tagged Age of Chivalry, Battle, Bond, Brave, Contemplate, Empty Pages, Forget, Handshake, Heart, Hope, Introspection, Met, Moments, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Premise, Promise, Random, Remember, Tattle, Touch, Trees, Try, Word, Words, World
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Thought For the Day: Be The First To Apologize, Forgive and Forget and Be the Best
“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest… True story.” – Anonymous
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Tagged Apologize, Be First, Brave, Forget, Forgive, Happy, Strong, Thought For the Day, True Story
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First Principles: Liberty’s Enthusiasm Makes Humanity Rise In Acts of Bravery and Heroism
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”– Alexander Hamilton
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Tagged Acts, Alexander Hamilton, Brave, Enthusiasm, First Principles, Hero, Human Nature, Liberty, Rise
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All the Beauty Heaven Bears
Probably one of the single most sad moments possible in a parent’s life is surviving the death of a child. All the Beauty Heaven Bears by Michael Romani Against all sense In a world grown dense A child’s life has … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear, Beauty, Belief, Brave, Child, Child's Life, Crumble, Death, Dense, Dream, End, Everything, Grief, Heaven, Incandescent, Moment, Nothing, Out Live, Pain, Parent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Sense, Sorrow, Stardust, Stars, Stumble, Surreal, Tomorrow
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Like Dominoes Falling
On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Anger, Behind, Brave, Brilliance, Brother, Carry, Close, Cry, Curse, Dad, Darkness, Deadly, Death, Die, Domino, Dose, Explode, Fall, Family, Fear, Firefighter 54, Foot, Forget, Friends, Frown, God, God Parents, Grief, Grieve, Hell, Helpless, Implode, Me, Memory, Mom, Next, Pass, Pen to Paper, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Pox, Pray, Prayer, Read, Resilience, Secret, Severe, Sister, Slow, Smile, Stars, Step, Stiff Upper Lip, Talk, There, Thought, Time, Torn, Upside Down, Walk, Weight, Whisper, Wonder, World, Write, Year
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Relative Complicity
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 12 asks that we who take up the challenge of finding something dull that we’re willing to give away. Well, sorry, but I’m twisting this into something that can never be owned, only given and that is so … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Attraction, Beautiful, Beauty, Brave, Breathtaking, Clarity, Complicity, Distance, Einstein, Extraordinary, Given, Good, Gravity, Grow, Heart, Hold Onto, Hour, Imposture, Insist, Journey, Love, Me and You, Mean, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obscene, One, Our, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Power of Love, Presistence, Rarity, Realize, Relative, Routine, Scene, Share, Shown, Simplicity, Soul, Speak, Spectacular, Start, Strong, Surrender, Talk, Tender, Together, Unfold, Unknown, Wonderful, World
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Breathe the Legacy
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day Four challenge is to write a sad poem. That’s easy enough to do this time around. Someone who is increasingly important to me beyond nearly all measure of my meager words recently lost someone. I can … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Born, Brave, Breathe, Dare, Deep, Defense, Family, Footstep, Force, Fragrant, Heart, History, Hurt, Legacy, Liberty, Life, Live, Lost, Lost Child, Love, Modern World, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Right, Sad, Show, Soul, Speak Well, Steep, Step, Tender, Tough, Truth, Vancouver, Win, Woman
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The Truth of the Present
It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World
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