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Fortune Cookie’s End
At the end of many an Oriental meal, there is that tidbit of sweetness and fortune told. My last one reads,” (D)o not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly”. … and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Cheese Cake, Complicate, Cookie, Delicious, Embrace, Enjoy, Fate, Fit, Fortune, Haste, Intricate, Lesson, Moment, Oriental, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Practical Chemistry, Simple, Taste, Tempura
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A Vancouverite Current
The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth
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First Principles: Act Worthy Of Yourselves
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Act, America, Country, Danger, Despair, Enemies, First Principles, Fortune, Free, Joseph Warren, Worthy
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The Mission of Paris
In the continuing saga of the fall of Troy: The Mission of Paris by Michael Romani Cheering Trojans party like no tomorrow Whispered rumors bring their sorrow A maiden finds her lips are sealed While coming darkness through a mirror … Continue reading
Daily Prompt – Candle
A flicker of candles whispers in the night Offering their cordial, guiding light The breeze whispers its sad prayer Holy death makes us all too aware That our days here are numbered Cautiously counted among the slumbered All the colors … Continue reading
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Tagged Candle, Daily Prompt, Days, Death, Flicker, Focal, Fortune, Night, Prayer, Remembrance, Visualization, Whisper
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Thought For the Day: The Truly Good and Wise Seek To Always Act Nobly
“The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.” – Aristotle, in Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Aristotle, Circumstances, Ethics, Fortune, Good, Nicomachean Ethics, Nobility, Wise
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At the Temple of Good Fortune
I sit here late night/early morning and a day late again but running as fast as I can to keep up with the poem a day challenge of April’s poetry month observation. The challenge today is to write a poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Brass Ring, Contemplation, Fiddler on the Roof, Fortune, Random Acts of Kindness, Wisdom
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 