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Gifts From the Heart
Day 20 of Na/GloPoWriMo, 2020! 2/3rds of the way through this year’s event. The optional prompt is to “write a poem about a handmade or homemade gift that you have received“. Gifts From the Heart by Michael Doyle Since divorce … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Always, Angst, Arms, Aware, Bits, Capable, Card, Compel, Complete, Cruel, Curl, Dad, Day, Decision, Division, Divorce, Ear To Ear, Essence, Ex, Family, Father, Father's Daughter, Father's Day, Fear, Friend, Friendship Braclets, Gift, Girls, Golden Rule, Grow, Hand, Happiness, Hear, Heart, Hidden, Hold, Homemade, Hug and Kiss, Hugs, Hunt, Inseparable, Know, Lady Bugs, Love, Mindful, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, Offer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Remind, School, Show, Side, Smile, Something, Start, Sweet, Taught, Tear, Three Musketeers, Trust, Understand, Watch, Way, While, Wish, World, Youngest
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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The Turbulence Begins
American history continues: The Turbulence Begins by Michael Doyle As the post-war alliance fell apart, the United Nations started The start of Cold War began and sustained as peace departed Confrontations began and nuclear weapons were on both sides’ hands … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse of Power, Accommodation, Address, Ailment, Alliance, America, American History, Arab Conflict, Ascendency, Balance, Begin, Bi-Partisan, Border, Champion, China, Citizens, Civil War, Cold War, Command, Common Man, Communists, Confrontation, Consolidation, Containment, Continent, Crystal Ball, Cuba, Danger, Dangers, Deep State Government, Defense, Devastation, Eisenshower, Empire, Expansionism, Fidel Castro, Fiscal Conservatism, Foreign, Forgot, Forward, Free, Free People, Freedom, George Kennan, Global Challenges, Government, Grow, Guard, Hard Times, Harry S Truman, Heritage, History, Hitler, Hostility, Hour, I Like Ike, Ill-Informed, Imperatives, Impulsiveness, Inchon, International Relations, Iron Curtain, Isreal, Issues, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, Legend, Liberty, MacArthur, Mao, Middle East, Military, Military-Industrial Complex, Misplaced Power, Moral Conscience, Mortal Man, Mortgage, New Deal, No Subtitution For Victory, Non-Partisan, Normalization, North, Nuclear, Occupy, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Police Action, Policy, Politics, Post-War, Presidency, Radical Challenges, Rank, Rectification, Reunification, Russian, Salvation, Security, Self Determination, Sentiment, Settle, Sino, Society, Sorrow, South, Soviet, Stabilize, Stalemate, Stalin, Statesmanship, Stettin, Subjugation, Suez Canal, Technocratic State, Tension, Territory, The People, Tomorrow, Trieste, Truman Doctrine, Turbulence, United Nations, Veteran, Vietnam, Vigilance, Vote, Vulnerable Nations, Warn
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Cursed Fate
Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young
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Thought For the Day: We Discover Our Greatness When We Find Ourselves In A Situation Bigger Than We Are and We Manage To Grow and Become Bigger Than the Situation
“We discover our greatness when we find ourselves in a situation bigger than we are and we manage to grow and become bigger than the situation.” – Luigina Sgarro
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Tagged Big, Bigger, Discover, Find, Greatness, Grow, Luigina Sgarro, Manage, Ourselves, Situation, Thought For the Day, We
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First Principles: The Real Man Smiles In Trouble, Smiles In Trouble, Gathers Strength From Distress and Grows Brave By Reflection
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” – Thomas Paine Allowing of the context of the mores of the time and circumstances, please extrapolate this to his real meaning, ‘real people with true … Continue reading
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Tagged Brave, Character, Distress, First Principles, Gather, Grow, People, Real, Reflection, Smile, Strength, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Lessons Learned As To Revenge
Living well is the best revenge taken. Forgiveness over anger. Love instead of indifference, pain or extreme dislike. Lessons Learned As To Revenge by Michael Romani Revenge is our undoing A debt that keeps accruing When really best left alone … Continue reading
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Tagged Accrue, Anger, Believe, Blind, Books, Build, Clue, Correction, Debt, Dig, Direction, Embrace, Energy, Eye For An Eye, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgot, Gain, God, Grow, Heart, Hope, Humans, Indifference, Injury, Journey, Kind, Laughter, Learn, Left, Legacy, Lesson, Living Well, Lost, Love, Pause, Peace, Photograph, Poetry, Price, Prove, Revenge, Save, Slights, Strong, Undoing, Value, Weight, Wise
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Moments Spent
Spending time with my girls was an awesome experience as always. Moments Spent by Michael Romani Spending time with these two All of our moments are too few Dreams shaping in their minds Gifts of smiles of which I’ve been … Continue reading
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 