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Each In Our Part
Started attending a new church today. It’s related to a church I enjoyed very much in California. Today, they had two of the children work together to recite Romans 12:6. That was a pretty awesome verse to commit to memory. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Body, Church, Communion, Contribute, Day, Death, Embrace, Face, Faces, Forgiven, Friend, Glorify, God, Grace, Heaven, Holy, Human Race, Jesus, Memory Verse, Part, Perfected Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Remind, Response, Romans 12:6, Sacrifice, Sanctify, Savior, Signifigance, Sin, Suffice, Together
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To Live and Die American
Flickr has broken my Flickr account. Not sure what I will do for photographs now or if I’ll ever be able to retrieve them. Meanwhile as I wait for their next response on the destruction they’ve done, I guess I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged American, Belief, Birth, Blind, Change, Character, Circumstance, Code, Correct, Death, Define, Difference, Dream, Eternal, Fight, Freedom, Good, Grief, Happy, Illuminate, Injustice, Journey, Lady Justice, Life, Light, Live and Die, Mind, Mistake, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Right, Shade, Stars, Success, Sun, Talk, Walk
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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First Principles: Nothing Is Certain But Death and Taxes
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin (1789)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Certain, Death, First Principles, Taxes, World
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Thought For the Day: Believe In the Power of the Imagination
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Believe, Death, Hold Back, Imagination, JG Ballard, Night, Power, Remake, Thought For the Day, Trascend, Truth, World
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Thought For the Day: To Be Gentle and Yielding Is the Disciple of Life
“A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Born, Death, Disciple of Death, Disciple of Life, Gentle, Hard, Lao Tzu, Mankind, Stiff, Thought For the Day, Weak
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The Last Days of Death
Regard well the moments of your life and never disregard a chance given to tell someone you care about or who needs an encouraging word those things that you might say to make their world better. You never know when … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Biology, Breath, Buy, Capable, Constraint, Day, Death, Disease, Dream, Ease, Encourage, Equality, Escape, Expiration Date, Fight, Frailty, Good fight, Google, Grim Reaper, Hand, Immortality, Iron Clad, Life, Mantra, Mortality, Nap, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Realign, Rush, Science, Sensible, Tap, Technicality, Time, Truth, Value, View, World, Young
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Echo Chambers of Disbelief
Beware the monsters under our beds.. but worse still are the monsters just behind the veneer we casually wear…. Echo Chambers of Disbelief by Michael Romani In a thousand seedy places There are monsters behind faces Playing cleverly as saying … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged After, Cancer, Chamber, Chase, Choke, Clever, Commotion, Dancer, Death, Depth, Disaster, Disbelief, Dream, Dreamer, Echo, Emotion, Facade, Face, Friend, Grace, Grief, Illusion, Irony, Know, Life Dream, Monster, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Seedy Place, Shallow, Stillborn
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Revelations No. 2
Based in part on 1 Cor 15:24 : Revelations No. 2 by Michael Romani Caught up in the end days thundering Lost up in speculation and wondering We find ourselves looking for redemption Seeking this out in our stark contemplation … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged 1 Corinthians, Alpha, Contemplation, Death, Defeat, Destination, Divine, End Days, Faith, Final Days, First, Full Circle, Future, Heed, History, Jesus, Keys of the Kingdom, Kingdom, Last, Legacy, Lesson, Lord, Omega, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Redemption, Restore, Revelation, Righteous, Ruin, Salvation, Second Adam, Seeker, Service, Shield, Sorrow, Speculation, Steadfast, Thunder, Tomorrow, Truth, Wonder, Word
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