Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Clarity
Webster’s Calling
At one time, Noah Webster called for a unifying national language of American English. On learning that the English were buying his dictionary, he decided instead it was a better thing to recognize that English is English with more in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged America, Authority, Civility, Clarity, Destruction, Dictionary, Dilect, Dissertation, Effort, Elite, English, Expressive, Independence, Linguist, National Language, Original Construction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Rules, Standard, Unity, Webster, Words
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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
Leave a comment
Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
Leave a comment
Things I’m Learning From You
Dedicated to all those I like and love however imperfectly… Things I’m Learning From You by Michael Romani I’ve long sought my authenticity Pursuing it with great integrity Only to find that in the much I believed I was too … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Begun, Beileve, Calvary, Checkered Past, Cherish, Clarity, Close, Deceived, Fell, Forgive, Gaffe, Gain, Grew, History, Hurt, Ignorance, Imperfect, Indecision, Integrity, Intimacy, Knew, Laugh, Learn, Love, Memory, Mind, Monkey, Morning, Night, One, Pain, Pajama Party, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sincere, Sleepless, Smile, Soul, Sun, Surprise, Twenty Questions, Two, Words, You
Leave a comment
Purveyors of Doubt
This is not aimed at all counselors out there. More sort of a response to a show I’ve started to watch. To those who do excellent work in helping folks sort things out, a huge thank you! For those … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Breadown, Circumstance, Clarity, Comedy, Counselor, Doubt, False World, Fractals, Fragments, Happenstance, Muddle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purveyor, Reality, Self Assert, Self Confession, Self Denial, Shutdown, Sophisticate, Theory, Therapy, Tragic, Volume, Whisper
Leave a comment
An Informational Confession
The old adage is that information is power. In today’s reiteration of perhaps too, too much information out there, I believe it’s time we modify this. Clarity is power. An Informational Confession by Michael Romani Here then in this present … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 21st Century, Age, Clarity, Complex, Information, Information Age, Integrity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Reference, Wisdom
Leave a comment
Good News of Great Joy
Based in part on Luke 8:1-12 : Good News of Great Joy by Michael Romani Mankind cannot but help but glory In thinking on all the Christmas story From ancient tales to Charlie Brown It’s a tale told covering sacred … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angels, Beautiful, Blessed, Book of Luke, Charlie Brown, Christmas, Christmas Story, Clarity, Faithful, Favor, Fear, Future, Glory, Good, Good News, Grace, Grow, Hallelujah Chorus, Heaven, Holy, Hope In Christ, Humble, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Kingdom, Known, Learn, Little Drummer Boy, Love, Manger, Mercy, Moments, Noble, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Rejoice, Repent, Righteous, Sacred Ground, Salvation, Savior, Security, Sin, Speak, Talk, Tidings, Truth, Walk, Warmth, Wonderful
Leave a comment
First Principles: Laws Should Be Few; Fixed and Easy To Understand
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws … undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Clarity, Clear, First Principles, Fixed, James Madison, Law, Rule of Action, The People
Leave a comment
Daily Prompt – Kinetic
Scenes like jazz paint musical colors in shades of blues Most of them dynamic and throbbing in kinetic hues Creative notes are strung together in memorable proclamation Breathing in to breath out in life’s heightened exclamation The music rains fire … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Clarity, Colors, Daily Prompt, Dissonance, Heat, Hues, Jazz, Kindred, Kinetic, Night, Notes, Proclamation, Stick In the Mud, Summer, Swelter, Tones, Turmoil
Leave a comment
Walking Our Holiness
Based in part on Luke 6:47-48 Walking Our Holiness by Michael Romani It’s there in our very firm decision That we are here for our holy mission Coming before the Lord as we are Correcting our path by that North … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Breath of God, Clarity, Commandment, Faith, Gospel, Grace, Hill, Holy, Jesus, Lesson, Lord, Luke, Mission, New Testament, North Star, Old Testament, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Prophet, Teach, Truth, Walk
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 