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First Principles: Happiness Comes From Minding Our Own Business Not the Business of Others
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.” – Dolley Madison
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Tagged Business, Desire, Dolley Madison, First Principles, Happiness, Knowledge, Lack of Desire, Other People, Source
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The Price of Magic
Day 26 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2019 is day to write a poem that uses repetition as it’s device. I think maybe that’s something that I don’t do a lot of in my writing. The leaders of this poetry session declare this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Base Need, Cast, Cocktail, Complex, Dash, Desire, Device, Dexterity, Die, Double Handed, Essence, Fancy, Fleet, Governance, Heart, Human, Incantation, Interaction, Kick, Last, Life, Magic, Na/GloPoWriMo, Parlance, Parliment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Recitation, Repeat, Repetition, Satisfication, Seat, Serial, Time, Trite, Trivial, True Romance, Utterance, Word
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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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Catch & Release
Am I alone in seeing that the world has its moments of understated brilliance? Catch and Release by Michael Romani Writing to write, so it seems Is often the child of unknown dreams Miscast, recanted or fully embraced The soul … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Annoucement, Ashes, Blink, Blossom, Brilliance, Catch, Child, Contrast, Crowd, Days, Deadpan, Deoor, Desire, Discipline, Disgrace, Dwell, Element, Embrace, Fire, Fisherman, Freeze Frame, Glory, Human Being, Impossible, Inhumanity, Lessons, Light, Limbo, Loop, Loud, Many, Miscast, Nights, One, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Physics, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Reality, Recant, Reflect, Release, Resemble, Resiliance, Scripture, Shaolin Fighter, Shatter, Silence, Singular, Skies, Soul, Stoop, Story, Super Power, Survivor, Teach, Truth, Typewriter, Unknown Dreams, War, Whisper, Write, Writer
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Thought For the Day: Stoop Low To Rise High
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” – Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849)
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Tagged Capable, Desire, Lady Marguerite Blessington, Low, Person, Rise, Stoop, Thought For the Day, World
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The Beauty of Healing
Learning more about how belief shifts biology in connection between mind and body led to this spilling out on my notepad… The Beauty of Healing by Michael Romani The mind body connection Stimulates the immunity It’s a matter of chemistry … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Answer, Apply, Aspire, Authority, Average, Balance, Beauty, Belief, Believe, Biology, Body, Capable, Chemistry, Consequence, Cure, Dark Seed, Desire, Diagnosis, Die, Diffidence, Direction, Discard, Fortify, Harm, Heal, Healing, Immunity, Impersonal, Increase, Know, Light of Day, Living, Magic, Mind Body Connection, Modality, Negative Thinking, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poety, Possibility, Power, Present, Proactive, Probability, Prognosis, Ratify, Reactive, Recovery, Regard, Say, Shadow, Shift, Soul, Statistics, Stimulate, Trust, Truth, Us, Within, Yield
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Lost In the Sound
Some days, I miss the bad ole days of playing music and thinking that was where my journey would always lead. Lost In the Sound by Michael Romani Taking all All in stride Taken for A wild ride Taken too … Continue reading
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Tagged Aground, Allowed, Around, Ballet, Change, Chase, Desire, Fire, Found, Guns For Hire, Heart, Journey, Lost, Loud, Music, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proud, Ride, Rooftop, Shake, Sing, Song, Sound, Stage, Stage Lights, Straight No Chaser, Stride, Tiptoe, View, Wild, Wire
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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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Samson III
Based in part on the Book of Judges: Samson III by Michael Romani III A judge to this world would arise As deliverer of prophecy advised Vengeance born to be God’s hands And take back the Promised Lands He was … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Judges, Desire, Doubt, Forsake, God's Will, Just, Mytsify, Nazirite, Other, Peace, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promised Land, Prophecy, Release, Samson, Take, Trap, Trip, Vengeance, Vow, Weep, Wire, World
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