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First Principles: Pursue Your Principles To Your Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Conduct, Conscience, Cowardice, Death, Firmness of Heart, First Principles, Man, Principles, Shrink, Small Minds, Smile, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Daily Prompt – Candle
A flicker of candles whispers in the night Offering their cordial, guiding light The breeze whispers its sad prayer Holy death makes us all too aware That our days here are numbered Cautiously counted among the slumbered All the colors … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Candle, Daily Prompt, Days, Death, Flicker, Focal, Fortune, Night, Prayer, Remembrance, Visualization, Whisper
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Daily Prompt – Angel
Somewhere in the eternal an angel silently shrieks There in the infinite loss of which we seldom speak The horror of it all is probably worse than thought When we’ve forgotten what really should be sought I’ll hold you close … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: It’s Older Men That Send Younger Men To Fight Wars
“I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Older Men, Pride, Purpose, Thought For the Day, War, Younger Men
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First Principles: Stay Strong Even In Distress
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brave, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, Firmness, First Principles, Little Minds, Love, Principles, Reflection, Shrink, Smile, Stout Heart, Strength, Thomas Paine, Troubles
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A Prophecy Begun…
To begin a series on the fall of Troy: A Prophecy Begun… by Michael Romani A mother’s cry pierces the palace night The black blood runs signally something is not right A baby boy is delivered into this wretched world … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Aprohdite, Death, Goddesses, Gods, Golden Apple, Helen, Herdsman, Paris, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prize, Prophecy, Trojan War, Troy, Zeus
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Thought For the Day: There Is Little To Gain In Worrying About Our Birth Or Our Death
“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.” – Federico García Lorca, poet, playwright, and painter (5 Jun 1898-1936)
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Tagged Birth, Burden, Death, Federico Garcia Lorca, Life, Thought For the Day, Worry
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Taken Breath
A poem based on a Memorial Day dance and a reality for far too many: Taken Breath by Michael Romani Whisper has it that it took away your breath The day they called to inform you of my death Seems … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Airman, Coastie, Comfort, Confession, Death, Death's Embrace, Freedom, Love of Family, Marine, Memorial Day, Memory, Patriotism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Sacred Ground, Sailor, Service, Soldier, Taken Breath, Tombstone, Whisper
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 26: Fisherman’s Wharf
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 26 challenge is to write a poem “that includes images that engage all five senses. Try to be as concrete and exact as possible with the “feel” of what the poem invites the reader to see, smell, touch, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcatrazz, Chocolate, Cioppino, Death, Ferry, Fisherman's Wharf, Hyde Street, Love, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Pier 39, Poem, Poetry, San Francisco, Sausalito, Sea Food, Sea Lions
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