Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Future
Writing the Pages of History
Orwellian world we live in at times, isn’t it? Writing the Pages of History by Michael Romani Words come alive from my youth Whispers about the Ministry of Truth We have watched dystopia unfold And we cannot say we were … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 1984, Dystopia, Erasure of Hard Truth, Free, Future, History, Master Key, Ministry of Truth, Orwell, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Tyranny, Us, Word
Leave a comment
The Angst of Generation Z
Our children live in interesting times. It’s a blessing and a curse. As a father, I think it’s my duty to try to teach my daughters to look for the positive and the good and to seek solutions instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angst, Broken, Complexity, Experience, Future, Generation X, Generation Z, Interesting Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sanity, Scandal, Specter, Superficial, System
Leave a comment
Adulting Conversation
Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger. Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”… Adulting Conversation by Michael Romani … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accept, Adult, Adulting, Change, Communication, Construction, Conversation, Danger, Deal, Fascination, Fix, Future, Hope, Insult, Introduction, Keep It Real, Language, Linguist, Live and Learn, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Risk, Rope, Talk, Tic, Turn, Verbal Punch, Words
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: The Best Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Alan Kay, Best Way, Future, Invent, Predict, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
I Am the Ocean
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17 and the challenge is to write a poem from an unusual perspective. What if a drop of water thought it was the ocean itself?… I Am the Ocean by Michael Romani I am the ocean I am … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All, Alpha, Bit, Clear, Cosmic, Devotion, Divinity, Embrace, First, Flow, Forget, Future, God, Head, I, Know, Last, Light, Might, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obstacle, Ocean, Omega, Past, Perspective, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Recall, Respect, Saline, Sea, See, Shape, Signifigence, Smile, Song, Summer's Day, Trace, Truth, Wash, Water, Watery Grave, Wave, Wet, Whole
Leave a comment
Memory Inspires the Future
Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Apology, Atrocity, Better, Consequence, Crimes Against Humity, Cultural Amnesia, Dignity, Dwell, Equa;ity, Evade, Forgive, France, Fratenrity, Free, Freedom, Future, Grievance, Guadaloupe, History, Humanism, Inspire, Isle, Legacy, Les Colons, Memory, Moving Forward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconciliation, Sidestep, Slavery, Slight, Stain, Sugar Factory
Leave a comment
Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
Leave a comment
Tea Leaf Sarabande
A sort of a kitchen sink sort of a poem… or maybe more of a tea cup’s worth of observations…. Tea Leaf Sarabande by Michael Romani Reading future in leaves of tea Broken lines filled with symmetry Trolls they say … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Back, Circle, Dance, Destiny, Dread, Firelight, Forget Me Not, Fork, Future, Ghost Story, Heartache, Heather, Indecision, Lake, Leaf, Magic, Now, Path, Peak, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Promise, Radiance, Resent, Sarabande, Shadow, Silence, Solitary, Storm, Strong Hand, Symmetry, Tea, Troll, Understand, Whisper, Willow, Words
Leave a comment
Revelations No. 2
Based in part on 1 Cor 15:24 : Revelations No. 2 by Michael Romani Caught up in the end days thundering Lost up in speculation and wondering We find ourselves looking for redemption Seeking this out in our stark contemplation … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged 1 Corinthians, Alpha, Contemplation, Death, Defeat, Destination, Divine, End Days, Faith, Final Days, First, Full Circle, Future, Heed, History, Jesus, Keys of the Kingdom, Kingdom, Last, Legacy, Lesson, Lord, Omega, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Redemption, Restore, Revelation, Righteous, Ruin, Salvation, Second Adam, Seeker, Service, Shield, Sorrow, Speculation, Steadfast, Thunder, Tomorrow, Truth, Wonder, Word
Leave a comment
Your Knight and Vagabond
Conversation starter kept on a echo of same things said. Mostly, I suppose cause it’s what’s stuck in my head lately. How does one move beyond square one when to move requires another to have the confidence needed to make … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alone, Belong, Connection, Dance, Drama, Faith, Fear, Find, Future, Good Enough, Hand, Hard, Home, Hope, Knight, Know, Light On, Love, New World, North Star, Pain, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Shadow, Side By Side, Sorrow, Sorry, Special, Step, Story Book, Strength, Strong, Sympathy, Together, Tomorrow, Truth, Vagabond, Wish
Leave a comment
