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Desire At the End of Days
Halloween Poem #12: Desire At the End of Days by Michael Romani At the end of days When evil walks and dragons slay The fallen angels will have the rule In absolute dominion over fools Drink this down with whiskey … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Appearance, Belief, Believe, Black Death, Breath, Creatures of the Night, Dark One, Day, Deceive, Desire, Discern, Dominion, End, Evil, Fall, Fallen Ange, Fire, Forget, Heart, House, Learn, Lesson, Life, Madman, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Right As Rain, Rip, Risk, Shellly, Slay, Strain, Superstition, Truth, Vain, Verse, Walk, Whiskey, White Chapel
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A Keening of Cause
Halloween Poem #9: A Keening of Cause by Michael Romani Fallen into second sight’s vision I find myself lost in indecision There inside that stinging fog Sawn in half like a totem’s log It’s too late for what will come … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blood, Burn, Cause, Danger, Darkness, Death, Doom, Drum, Eye, Fall, Fog, Gateway, Halloween, Hear, History, Immortal, Keen, Lamentation, Late, Legacy, Lost, Lucifer, Mystery, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Raven, Scar, Second Sight, Shine, Tattoo, Thrill, Totem, Wall, Will
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Happy First Day of Fall 2019: Equinox
Happy First Day of Fall! Let sweater weather begin!! (soonish…) If ever you should be just outside of St. Louis on its eastern border, there is the site of the Mound Building culture that lived in Cahokia. One of the … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Autumn, Cahokia, Equinox, Fall, Mississippean People, Mound Builders, St Louis, Sweater Weather, Thought For the Day, Woodhenge
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Rocky Road To Faith
Based in part on 1 John 1:9: Rocky Road To Faith by Michael Romani There are so many times we scoff in pride Looking at God’s will far from the outside Believing our own path and our will be done … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bend, Choice, Clatter, Consequence, Decision, Depend, Faith, Fall, Father, Forgive, God, God's Will, Grace, Holy, Ignorance, John, Journey, Live, Obey, Obstinance, Opinion, Our Will, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Principle, Road, Rock, Rocky, Satisfy, Scoff, Scripture, Self Importance, Shine, Son, Step By Step, Stubborn, Stumble, Sublime, Time, Told, Trouble, Trust, Unclear, Walk, Way
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Ways of Survival
In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Angry, Arrive, Blessing, Blue, Chill, Cry, Do, Dream, Earth, Empathy, End, Extinction, Fall, Fear, Fire, Forget, Fragile, Frame, Guesstimate, Happen, History, Immortal, Leaves, Life, Love, Mad Tea Party, Mass, Mercy, Moments, Mother Nature, Name, Passing Year, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Push, Rake, Realize, Regret, Resources, Revolve, Ripple, Serial Killer, Skipped Stone, Strife, Struggle, Suicide, Survival, Survive, Think, Way
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First Principles: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.” – Patrick Henry
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Destroy, Divided, Factions, Fall, First Principles, Patrick Henry, Split, Stand, Union, United
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Between Heaven and Earth
A whisper of a prayer… Between Heaven and Earth by Michael Romani Between Heaven and Earth There is a gate Between light and dark There falls a shadow Between faith and sin A whisper speaks a prayer My deepest confession … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Between, Birth, Confession, Dark, Death, Earth, Faith, Fall, Gate, God, Happiness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven, I, Know, Lie, Life, Light, Live, Love, Miracle, Mistake, My, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remorse, Right, Self, Shadow, Sin, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness, Whisper, Wrong
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First Principles: It Is the Influence of Christianity That Has Brought Civil Freedom and Social Happiness Which Mankind Enjoys
“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
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Blessing, Christianity, Civil Freedom, Fall, First Principles, Flow, Government, Happiness, Influence, Jedidiah Morse, Kind, Mankind, Overthrown, Pillars, Republican
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Wolf’s Call Coming
Love and life are becoming increasingly clearer in my mind as part of one and the same. Without love there is no life, without life there is no love. And what of this to a man who has been told … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Call, Choice, Circle, Courage, Death, Drum, Eyes, Faith, Fall, Fear, Fight, Gaze, Ghost, Incendiary, Last Days, Life, Limited Time, Live, Love, Man, Military Man, Mystery, Pass, Persevere, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Reflect, Sanctuary, Sight, Sound, Spectra, Time, Voice, Well, Wise, Wolf, Wonder
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Sunrise Calling
This planet of ours exists in just the right pocket for the life giving waters to be present in all of its necessary forms. Odd how some don’t see the miracle in that… Sunrise Calling by Michael Romani Slippery as … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ascent, Call, Day, Divinity, Dream, Drink, Drip, Drop, Earth, Fall, Form, Frozen, Heat, Ice Face, Life Giving, Melt, Miracle, Newbprm, Nighttime, Ocean's Daughter, Paradise, Photograph, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Rearrange, Shape Shift, Slip, Steam, Stream, Structure, Sunrise, Tomorrow, Waters, World
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