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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, Design, First Principles, Germ, Prepare, Subservience, Suffocate, Thomas Jefferson, Tool, Virtue
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Blown Away
I guess it’s not much of a confession to say that I love art and the arts, right? Have you ever looked at what it takes to create blown glass art? Years ago, at an amusement park I know of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accident, Art, Attention, Beauty, Blown Glass, Break, Breath, Butterfly, Chice, Clock, Cool, Correct, Cracking, Creativity, Design, Desire, Disaster, Eternity, Face, Finesse, Fire, Flowers, Fragile, Funnels, Furnace, Glory Hole, Gravity, Haunt, Heart, Hollow Pipe, Inspirtation, Intimate, Lesson, Light, Lime, Liquid Glass, Maker, Master, Meditation, Mold, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Punsies, Rendition, Reveal, Roll, Sand, Scuplt, Shakers, Shape, Simple, Snapshot, Soda, Tick, Vase, Vases, Voice, World
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Frozen Infinity
The challenge brought last night was to write a poem about snow, ice, winter, spring and all the things these things bring. Who knew that albatrosses also mate for life? I didn’t know…. and…Here’s my attempt: Frozen Infinity by … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Albatross, Alive, Antarctica, Beauty, Blunder, Boom, Children, Cod, Consequence, Consign, Cost, Cub, Cycle, Design, Duty, Early Bird, Earth, Emperor, Feeling, Flood, Frozen, God Willing, Harsh, Hunter, Ice, Icicle, Infinity, Lean Times, Life, Loom, Manna, Melt, Meltwater, Migration, Mother Nature, Mother's Love, Narhal, New Life, Niche, North, Ocean, Peace, Pebble, Penguin, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Polar Bear, Polar Wind, Prey, Remind, Sense, Snow, Spring, Stone, Strife, Sun, Survive, Tapestry, Thaw, Tundra, Tusk, Tuxedo, Unfair, Unicorn, Waterfall, Winter, Wonder
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Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success
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Samson VIII
Continuing in an effort to put a version of the Samson and Delilah story from the Book of Judges into verse, I present Part VIII. Perhaps, I should have made this shorter? Samson (VIII) by Michael Romani Amidst un-princely questions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Adversary, Appease, Beg, Blame, Book of Judges, Broken, Burn, Consequence, Contest, Daughter, Design, Desire, Dishonor, Driven, Embrace, Enemies, Enemy, Enmity, Family, Fire, Flee, Folly, Forgiven, Gain, God's People, God's Will, Good, Heresy, History, Impure, Jew, King, Knees, Lion, Loss, Love, Nazarite, Peace, Persevere, Philistine, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Pride, Providence, Purity, Rage, Riddle, Samson and Delilah, Sanctuary, Seek, Shame, Sign, Steeple, Strife, Taran, Tears, Tunic, Two Peoples, Vain, Vow, Wager, Wisdom, Wolf, Wood, Worship, Wrath, Zion
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience In the Design of Ambition
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Ambition, Beget, Dependence, Design, First Principles, Germ, Subservience, Thomas Jefferson, Tool, Venality, Virtue
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We Hide
I don’t think it is too controversial to presuppose that each of us has at least a little dark side to us. That seemed like a topic right for this Halloween season. We Hide by Michael Romani The monsters that … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Avoid, Darkness, Demon, Design, Hide, Hurt, Inside, Mischief, Monsters, Overcome, Poem, Poetry, Sheep, Tortured Soul, Weep, Wickedness
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Sense of Place
Sense of Place by Michael Romani You see it in her x-ray eyes There is really no disguise She feels her sense of place She wears it on her smiling face It’s an attachment to things past These that endure … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort, Community, Design, Extraordinary, Family, Home, Love, Photographs, Poetry
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Material Language
Material Language by Michael Romani The things that touch the skin Are the things that we let in Speaking to us in coded language Each giving compelling advantage Brought to life under light Ideally blended just right To assemble in … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories, Poetry and Poems
Tagged Composite, Design, Language, Material, Photograph, Poetry
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