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Valentine Thoughts 2020
Beautiful weekend spent in part with two little princesses that I adore and a lady who is the queen of my heart. One later for the girls. One for my lady just written: Valentine Thoughts 2020 by Michael Romani To … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Appearance, Beauty, Begin, Blind, Catch, Connection, Control, Core, Deception, Deep, Dream, Everything, Fall, Find, Float, Forget, Grand Slam, Heart, Hours, Intimate, Knee, Life, Love Song, Loved, Mind, Open, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Real, Right, Sight, Smile, Sought, Soul, Space, Start, Talk, Thoughts, True, Truth, Unconditionally, Valentine's Day, Walk, Walls, Weekend, Zen
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Thought For the Day: We Are Too Great A Nation To Limit Ourselves To Small Dreams
“We are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Decline, Doom, Dreams, Fall, Fate, Great, Limit, Matter, Nation, Nothing, Ronald Reagan, Small, Thought For the Day, We
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Thought For the Day: Always Keep Your Face Toward the Sunshine – and Shadows Will Fall Behind You
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
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Tagged Behind, Face, Fall, Keep, Shadows, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Toward, Walt Whitman
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To Bring the Stars Closer
There are those who walk into our lives to not simply touch and fadeaway. There are those who from the moment met leave an indelible trace in your heart and soul. It is to this which has left me so … Continue reading
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Tagged Amaze, Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty, Belong, Brave, Bring, Change, Choose, Close, Closer, Compassion, Contentment, Control, Curl, Curled, Dare, Deep, Desire, Detail, Doubt, Dream, Duty, Embrace, End, Essence, Eyes, Fall, Fascination, Feel, Fools, Forgive, Forgotten, Friend, Give Up, God, Good Man, Grace, Gratitude, Harm, Heart, Heaven, Here, Hold, Hope, Illusion, Important, Inner, Inner Fire, Inspire, Latitude, Live, Look, Love, Lover, Lyric, Magic, Magnificence, Man, Mystery, Night, Obligation, Passion, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Purpose, Right, Risk, Serve, Significance, Silence, Sing, Sky, Sleep, Soul, Stars, Tears, Time, Token, Touch, Trace, Treasure, Truth, Violence, Watch, Ways, Weep, Well, Will, Wish, Woman, Wonder, Wonderful, World, Worth
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Forgotten Presents
Let’s call this one for the missed one on December 22nd and Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate this! Forgotten Presents by Michael Romani To all the kids who learned How not to believe All of those who have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Begun, Belief, Believe, Better, Carol, Celebrate, Christmas, Church, Core, Cross, Cure, Dark, Deceive, December 22 2019, Desire, Dream, Drift, Elves, Endure, Eyes, Faith, Fall, Family, Feelings, Float, Forgotten, Found, Full Drill, Full Stop, Ground, Hall, Happy Chanukah, History, Hold, Holy Night, Hope, Hug Out, Humanity, Hurt, Kid, Learn, Lessons, Letters, Life, Loss, Love, Memory, Miracle, Photograph, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prescience, Present, Relief, Santa, Snow, Stranger, Stream, Sum, Together, True Believer, Truth, Turn, Words, Workshop, World
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Ruined Absolution
This poem was meant for December 19, 2019. This is, among other observances, National Emo Day.. So Happy that… In my own confessional, I am struggling a bit these last few days with my upcoming birthday, Christmas almost here and … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Absolution, Afraid, Angst, Bangs, Beautiful, Brithday, Burn, Care, Chemical Romance, Christmas, Compression, Confession, Confessional, Contemplate, Dark, December 19 2019, Die, Do It Or Die, Embrace, Emotional, Escape, Expression, Fall, Fraught, Glance, Hair, Happy, Hollywood, Human Being, Ink, Inspiration, Intropective, Jet Black, Life, Little Girls, Love, National Emo Day, Nothing, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Question, Ruin, Savage, Sigh, Silence, Skinny Jeans, Sleeve, Smile, Something, Sonic Attack, Sorrow, Stride, Structure, Sunday, Taste, Tee Shirt, Tenderness, Thin, Think, Violence, Violin, Want, World, Yesterday
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First Principles: Whenever the Pillars of Christianity Are Overthrown, Our Republican Government and All Blessing From It Will Fall With Them
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness, which mankind now enjoys…Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government – and all blessings which … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Christianity, Civil Freedom, Enjoy, Fall, First Principles, Flow, Government, Happiness, Influence, Jedidiah Morse, Kind, Mankind, Overthrown, Pillars, Political, Republican, Social
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Once Upon A Night In Bethlehem – I
Based in part on Micah 5:2: Once Upon A Night In Bethelhem – I by Michael Romani From Bethlehem will come the king With all the joy that this will bring It’s of His glory that we all will sing … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Bethlehem, Bite, Branch, Bring, Caravan, Cheer, Christian, Context, Crush, Disarray, Faith, Fall, Flow, Glory, His, History, Holy, Holy Star, Holy Ways, Humanity, Humble, Joy, Justice, King, Light, Live, Micah, Morn, News, Night, Nothing, Paradise, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prophecy, Rest, Right, Roots, Satan, Sing, Something, Sordid, Story, Sublime, Troubles, Westward, Witness, World, Year
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banish, Betray, Citizens, Create, Dare, Fall, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Joseph Story, Profligate, Public Councils, Public Spirit, Republic, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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Darkness Quenches Light
Halloween Poem #18 Darkness Quenches Light by Michael Romani Among the demons there is history Some might strangely call it legacy Where troubled hearts are in need of friends And if you’re safe, it just depends Quintessential in the rarified … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter, Bleed, Burn, Conquer, Cracked, Darkness, Demon, Depend, Eden, Electric, End, Fall, Final, Friend, Halloween, Heal, Heart, Hide, History, Intention, Invention, Irony, Legacy, Light, Lost Soul, Love, Mad, Mankind, Melody, Monster, Need, Opposite, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Quench, Rare, Reveal, Sacred, Safe, Sane, Savage, Scar, Science, Soothe, Strange, Summation, Tears, Thunder, Transform, Trouble, Twist, Vain, Vital, Vital Spark, Whiskey, Wind, World, Wound
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