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Shelf Life
Today Is National Fruit Cake Day!! (run….) Shelf Life by Michael Romani Raise a glass of eggnog in good cheer Blessed by this holiday time of year But what do we do about this one gift One that creates sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ages, Bless, Brandy, Cheer, Christmas Time, Crime, Cup, Fill, Food, Fruit, Gift, Grandma, Guilty Pleasure, Holiday, Improve, Mayhem, National Fruit Cake Day, Nuts, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poke, Pretend, Regret, Reject, Revile, Rib, Rift, Roman, Rubber, Sages, Sculpture, Sentence, Shelf Life, Shudder, Sight, Smile, Sweet, Taste, Treasure, Treat, Unique, Waste
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First Principles: Laws That Forbid the Carrying of Arms Disarm Only Those Who Are Neither Inclined Nor Determined To Commit Crimes
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Arms, Assailant, Assault, Attack, Carry, Confideence, Crime, Disarm, Encourage, First Principles, Homocide, Law, Prevent, Thomas Jefferson, Unarmed
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Like Brothers
The things done in the military grows most men’s units in whatever force into something like family. Most of us ended fighting for our brothers and sisters more than ideals or nations. Some of us carry the memories of our … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Back, Battles, Beer, Brothers, Caution, Count On, Crime, Danger, Day, Distance, Do It, Done, Doubt, Fallen, Family, Fight, Forever Faithful, Friend, Giving up, God, Head, Joke, Laugh, Live, Longer, Memory, Miles, Military, Mother, Movie, My Time, Need, Nothing to Say, Odds, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Push Past, Race, Remember, Resistance, Ring, Semper Fi, Sigh, Sisters, Smile, Sonds, Stronger, Tears, Toss, Twin, Weight, Years
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Walking Talk of Talking Walk
Some say that a nice walk is the best time and way to observe, think and observe. I see the point of this. For me, it use to be to go on a nice 10-15 mile run. Those days … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All, Amble, Argument, Best Ideas, Boots, Breakthrough, City, Country, Creativity, Crime, Daily Rite, Desire, Dream, Face, Feeling, Footfall, Forret Gump, Fule, Grime, Happy, Imagination, Immerse, Innovation, Knot, Landscape, Meander, Mental, Mind, Nation, Nature, Observe, Old, Open Spaces, Photograph, Pindaric Ode, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Ranble, Raw Stuff, Smile, Stride, Talk, Thought, Town, Tramp, Walk, Write
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Thought For the Day: Do Not Fear Failure
“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Bruce Lee, Crime, Don't Fear, Fail, Failure, Glory, Great Attempt, Low Aim, Thought For the Day
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Meanders At the Oxbow
Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 29 and the challenge is to write on the after thoughts about a strong emotion and its results. This is my attempt to clarify thoughts I had just yesterday about the days prior and the future that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Ahead, Always, Banks, Behind, Bends, Best Friend, Better or Worse, Bridge, Cautious, Cherish, Churn, Commonality, Cool Creek, Creek, Crime, Demand, Deserve, Different, Duck, Eyes, Feel, Flow, Forget, Fresh, Frown, Hike, Kiss, Laugh, Living, Love, Meander, Memory, Mud, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, New, Obnoxious, Oxbow, Photograph, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Remind, Reverence, Rise, Safe, Secure, Similar, Simple Man, Slosh, Smile, Speak, Stand, Startle, Surprise, Sweetest Love, Swerve, Talk, Think, Thoughts, Times, Today, Tomorrow, Touch, Turn, Turns, Twist, Walk, Water, Wish, Words, Yesterday
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An Obsession of Shadow
The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World
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Thought For the Day: Open Borders Mean More Crime In the US
“Whenever President Trump talks about illegal immigration, he frequently says that open borders means more crime. Predictably, left-wing pundits accuse the president of being ‘xenophobic,’ even though he often praises legal immigration. But the president is absolutely correct. Not every … Continue reading


