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A Summer Breeze Calls
Situational haiku or maybe just something from the place I photographed today… A Summer Breeze Calls by Michael Doyle A summer breeze calls Passing joyfully today Butterflies drift by Dragonfly alights Resting on a steady branch Offering comfort Goldfinch says … Continue reading
Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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To A Northern Cardinal
It’s almost that time…. April 1st is the first day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020. As a warm up, the first suggestion was to write a poem about any bird. I thought of an eagle in this time when we all need … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Blanche, Branch, Breeze, Bright Spot, Brim, Call, Chipping, Company, Crowd, Dart, Dash, Den, Disappear, Dress, Flutter, Fly, Holiness, Joy, Life, Limb, Loud, Loved Once, Loyalty, Mate, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, Northern Cardinal, Perch, Photograph, Pines, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Red, Remember, Shelter, Sigh, Silken Wings, Sing, Song, Stand Out, Tears, Visit, Warning, Window, Writing
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In Gratitude for Community
A poem in gratitude for community #14: In Gratitude for Community by Michael Romani Thinking back on the days of birds singing Always certain of what my life would be bringing Dragon flies buzzing along a cool pond breeze And … Continue reading
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Tagged Bird, Blessed, Breeze, Bring, Community, Connection, Course, Direction, Dragonfly, Familiar, Family, Feeling, Friend, Friends, Gratitude, Humble, Lemonade, Life, Memory, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pond, Reeling, Self, Shade Tree, Shelf, Sing, Social Ties, Source, Time
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On The Importance of A Diatom
The world needs a lot of oxygen to breath. We take it for granted. Most of us. Some of us get exposed to toxicity that makes us know just how precious that oxygen is. But, where does it come from? … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Andes, Breeze, Climate, Cloud, Coincidence, Diatom, Fertile Soil, Floral, History, Importance, Journey, Jungle, Know, Life, Lungs, Mystery, Ocean, Oxygen, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Popular Science, Providence, Rain, Rainforest, River, Sahara, Secret, Sky, Symphonic, Tree, Tropical, Truth, Water, Wind
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Summer, Newport Beach
Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 25 and the challenge is to write a poem that incorporates: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where … Continue reading
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Tagged Bain de Soleil, Balboa Pier, Beach House, Breeze, Brothers, Contact High, Cousin, Crab, Crash, Fire Pit, Growing Up, Huntington Beach, Jetty, Ladies, Na/GloPoWriMo, Newport Beach, Ocean, Older, Paddle, Park, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rock, Saltwater, Season, Sense, Shoreline, St Tropez, Summer, Sunshine, Surf, Talk, Tan, The Zoo, Water, Wave, Young
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A Pillow’s Talk of Things
The ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo is based on the lists found in Sei Shonagon’ s The Pillow Talk. As the hour has grown later than I had hoped and only just recently finished a show along with a late dinner and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Attention, Attitude, Beast, Beloved, Best, Best Intention, Breeze, Bring, Busy Day, Care, Chase, Chase Circles, Cloud, Confide, Confusion, Conquer, Cry, Delight, Depression, Despise, Difference, Diffidence, Enchantment, Eye to Eye, Face, Fascination, Find, Fruits, Game, God's Daughter, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heart, Heart Sing, Hope, Hour, Imagination, Impression, Intention, Keep, Knowledge, Known, Lady Love, Last, Late, Laughter, Lifetimes, Love, Memory, Mesmerize, Mind, Moon, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Power, Precious, Prove, Pure, Questions, Raindrop, Reason Why, Rendition, Respect, Rule, Save, Sei Shonagon, Share, She, Sigh, Smile, Solitary Power, Soul, Sparkle, Spell Caster, Tantalize, Tear, Tears, Test, The Pillow Talk, Thought, Times, Tree House, Trouble, Upset, Voice, Vow, Way, Word, Words
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Upside Down Emu Love
Written on a bet that I couldn’t write a poem about emus that also was a love story. The person betting this hadn’t the poem about the goats in love, did they? 😉 Upside Down Emu Love by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient, Arid, Australia, Breeze, Bushland, Confusion, Delusion, Do, Dream, Emu, Eyes, First Light, Flightless, Love, Love At First Sight, Name, Outback, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Sand, Scratch, Secret, Tree
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Thunder Road
Robert Mitchum wrote and starred in a movie way back in the 1950s that spoke to the ways of moonshiners and their dispute with the Revenue men. It touched on many topics that each could be made their own poems. … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Woods, Backs, Breeze, Code, Drive, Family, Honor, Living, Mile, Moon, Moonshine, Obstacle, Old, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Robert Mitchum, Scrapple, Tale, Tax, Thunder Road, Trees, Unforgiving, Veteran, Whippoorwills, Wink
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Daily Prompt – Committee
Rumor had it that they were there to greet me That ghoulish sort of ghastly welcoming committee And though I wished them no sense of hostility I would certain some things just shouldn’t be Run, run, runaway to fight another … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Anxiety, Autumn, Beg, Breeze, Chaos, Committee, Common Sense, Daily Prompt, Glance, Grave, Greet, Hostility, Overwhelm, Rumor, Runaway, Welcome
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