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Thought For the Day: Music Can Make Us Feel Invulnerable and Related to All of Time
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Current, Danger, Early, Fear, Foe, Hear, Henry David Thoreau, Invulnerable, Music, Relate, See, Thought For the Day, Times
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Beauty In A Blade of Grass
It isn’t so long ago that mental illness was seen as the Devil’s work. I was watching a show tonight and it reminded me of this. Beauty In A Blade of Grass by Michael Romani Scratching at the walls Of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anger, Asylum, Beauty, Blade, Claw, Closure, Compromise, Devil, Fear, Grass, Madness, Memory, Mental Illness, Obscene, Outlaw, Pain, Pass, Perception, Photograph, Pinky Swear, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sanity, Satan, Shade, Shame, Soul, Walls, Wicked, Wrath
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Woken Facade
There are times and places filled with spaces when you see there is a lot of darkness behind smiling faces…Sometimes in those places, you make mistakes you wish you could take back and cannot. Woken Façade by Michael Romani As … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Bleed, Charm, Dance, Dante's Inferno, Dark, Deception, Devil, Dream, Everyone, Facade, Fail, Fear, God, Harm, Heartbreak, Heresy, Infinite, Mask, Mercy, Mistake, Myself, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relent, Repent, Seem, Soul, Task, Trick, Woke, Wrong
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Inward Crash
The injuries from the military that are visible only scratch the surface of the totality. Inward Crash by Michael Romani There’s a loneliness in his memory Sitting and looking out to the sea Images explode, implode and won’t go away … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Blade, Blame, Bullet, Choice, Chopper, Claim, Close, Conflict, Crash, Cry, Dark, Decision, Disturb, Duty, Explode, Fear, Finger Point, Friend, Good Solcier, Hades, Hard Decisions, Hell, Images, Implode, Inflict, Injury, Linger, Lonely, Lost, Lucid, Memory, Military, Overwhelm, Pain, Phantoms, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Resent, Sigh, Sniper, Soul, Strong, Tagged, Thunder, Tool, Under, Voice, War, Withdraw
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Cultivating Kindness III
The Lord shows His kindness is His Yes, His No and His Wait. All things that happen, happen with purpose. It’s important in our growing to consider this perspective no matter how personally unsettling things get or are. Cultivating Kindness … Continue reading
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Tagged Atmosphere, Clear, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Cross, Cultivate, Darkness, Discipline, Effort, Experience, Family, Fear, Find, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, God, Integrity, Kind, Kindness, Lesson, Lord, Love, Obedience, One, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Promise, Reflect, Repent, Seek, Sense, Sin, Smile, Sublime, Truth, Walk Back, Warning
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Like Dominoes Falling
On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Anger, Behind, Brave, Brilliance, Brother, Carry, Close, Cry, Curse, Dad, Darkness, Deadly, Death, Die, Domino, Dose, Explode, Fall, Family, Fear, Firefighter 54, Foot, Forget, Friends, Frown, God, God Parents, Grief, Grieve, Hell, Helpless, Implode, Me, Memory, Mom, Next, Pass, Pen to Paper, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Pox, Pray, Prayer, Read, Resilience, Secret, Severe, Sister, Slow, Smile, Stars, Step, Stiff Upper Lip, Talk, There, Thought, Time, Torn, Upside Down, Walk, Weight, Whisper, Wonder, World, Write, Year
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Of Love and Fear
No slackers here for Day 5 of Na/GloPoWriMo. Here are the goals: “(1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Calmness, Choice, Confidence, Devoice, Explore, Fear, Find, Give, Hobson's Choice, Life, Limit, Love, Method of Choice, Na/GloPoWriMo, Patois, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Quatrain, Refine, Refrain, Rejoice, Stanza, Step, Stillness, Strip, Tercet, Villanelle, Voice
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Beginning To Heal
In the 21st century as research into Quantum physics and all that goes on and has become combined with a turn from the mechanical and toward biology. It is a fantastic era to live in. So much promise and so … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Above, Answer, Autoimmune, Biology, Blessing, Chasing Wealth, Chemistry, Choice, Clear, Conscious Soul, Control, Curious, Deepen, Devotion, Diet, Disappear, Embrace, Emotion, Energy, Era, Fear, Fight, Final Hour, Gift, Give, God's Path, Grace, Harsh, Head, Health, Higher Power, Illness, Inside, Intuition, Invisible Force, Kill, Life, Live, Love, Machine, Nature, Newt, Newton, Nurture, Outside, Particle Field, Photograph, Physical, Poem, Poetry, Posion, Positive, Prayer, Pressure, Quantum Physics, Reaction, Reason For Living, Redirect, Redirection, Serious, Side Effect, Spirit, Spiritual Connection, Stress, Strife, Support, Suppressed Emotion, Synthesize, Universe, Walk, Waves, Way, Well, Wellness, World, Wrap Around
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