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Broken Sparrow Down
A few couplets were spotted dancing across the page….Dedicated to those who recognize that suicide is among the top reasons for death in the United States and work so diligently to lower these numbers and give up to the tired, … Continue reading
Heartbreaks Forgiven
I wrote this poem just now. Please forgive the typos. It’s sort of a word flow thing…. Heartbreaks Forgiven by Michael Romani I watched you kill your child today I held your hand and did not look away You told … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Answer, Beautiful, Call, Child, Christian, Conspiracy, Cry, Daughter, Despite, Different, Fogive, Forgive, Forsake, Forty Years, Found, God's Plan, Goodbye, Grateful, Halo, Hand, Hard, Heartbreak, Heathen, Hell, Horrible, Hours, Hug, Hurt, Laugh, Left, Life, Live, Looking Out, Love, Man, Mistake, Morning Light, Patience, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Project, Promise, Reason, Regret, Remember, Right, Risk, Satan, Season, Secret, Shake, Shoe, Silent, Smile, Soul, Sparkle, Stay, Taught, Tears, Time, Tonight, Watch, Wild Man, Years, You, Young, Your Way
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Price of Pride
Love of power breed ambition and that’s really not what we need in leaders. What we need is those who have vision and come to serve the people. Yet, that’s rarely the way of those interested in politics is it? … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Blade, Bring, Claim, Dark, Dark Secret, Death, Deception, Defile, Denial, Desert, Dust, End, Evil, False, Fatal, Feel, Fend, Fustration, Glory, Greet, Hell, Immortality, Key, King, Knowledge, Left, Madness, Mortal, Mortality, Mystery, Mystic, Nowhere, Oracle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Price, Pride, Reaper, Sanskrit, Secret, Serve, Smile, Soul, Spell, Sun, Think, Trouble
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The Faith of the Grail
Knight means servant. In today’s mockery of history, that’s overlooked. It’s in my heritage. Certainly, I am flawed as well. Let’s hope that in the end the things I struggle for are remembered with greater fondness? The Faith of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Blame, Courage, Darkest Hours, Defense, Faith, Faithfulness, False Rock, Grail, Grief, He, Hell, His Name, History, Holy, Jesus, Knight, Known, Love, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Safe, Scared, Servant, Shown, Talk, Temple, True Believer, Truth, Walk, Worldly Power
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Still the Monkey Grins
The world has a monkey on its back. It’s the darkness inside us all. Still the Monkey Grins by Michael Romani Born innocent Victims to the sins The sins of the father Eden’s fall set the precedent Banished, cast before … Continue reading
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Tagged Amorality, Bitten, Blame, Bled, Born, Cast, Children, Collateral Damage, Crime, Cut, Darkness, Eden, Evil, Exile, Father, Fault, Flesh, Grin, Hell, Innocent, Inside, Life, Lightening, Mephisto's Waltz, Monkey, Monster, Paid, Pawns, Peace, Photograph, Plans, Poem, Poetry, Question, Science, Scream, Selfish, Sin, Societal Stress, Strife, Tombstone, Truth, Victim, Voices, Wisdom, World, Wrong
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No Heaven Without You
The other day, some one thinking they were oh so wise, chose to tell me that I should not love who I do. To that person and others like her, I say it’s a simple matter of truth. Addressed to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Above, Angel, Belief, Clear, Conviction, Cost, Cross, Folly, God, Heaven, Hell, Humanity, Hyprocrisy, Integrity, Joined As One, Judas, Judgment, Keep, Lost, Love, Mercy, One, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Pure, Sacrifice, Sanctify, Sincere, Son, Trust, Truth, Undone, Unequally Yoked, United, Vain, Vow, Wisdom
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Daily Prompt – Curtain
Drawn deep from the pits of hell Is the watcher behind the half veil Blown in the night air like a curtain Never knowing his prey for certain Older than house he haunts More wicked than those he taunts The … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Afraid, Beasts, Children, Curtain, Daily Prompt, Drawn, Haunt, Hell, Horror, House, Imagination, Light Switch, Night, Prey, Taunt, Torment, Veil, Watcher, Wicked
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First Principles: The Harder the Conflict, The More Glorious the Triumph
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine in “American Crisis” (1776)
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Tagged American Crisis, Conquer, Consolation, First Principles, Glorious, Hard Conflict, Hell, Thomas Paine, Triumph, Tyranny
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First Principles: The Harder the Conflict With Tyranny, The More Glorious Is the Triumph
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine, American Crisis, No. 1, 1776
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Tagged American Crisis, Conflict, Conquered, Consolation, First Principles, Glory, Hell, Thomas Paine, Triumph, Tyranny
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 15: Dental Plan
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 15’s challenge is to attempt to take the perspective of a bad or evil character from a positive spin. I’ve never really thought of something like that as a subject for a poem. But, hey, why not, right? … Continue reading
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Tagged Dental Plan, Evil, Hell, Hell-Being, Lucifer, Minions, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primeval, Sign On Bonus, Spell
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