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Tag Archives: Hell
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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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Sometimes Better Than the Memories
Six guns out and blazing was the dream …. maybe a little too much time thinking on the West these days? Sometimes Better Than the Memories by Michael Romani Sometimes I can’t remember The things that I’ve done Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bad Picture Show, Begun, Best, Burn, Chill, Cry, Die, Echoes, Good Boy, Government, Heart, Hell, Hurt, Kill, Know, Man, Meant, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reality, Remember, Six Gun, Soul, Things Done, Time, West, Why
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Non-Binary Paradise Revealed
Have you ever wondered about Satan’s role as God’s prosecutor and role as sinful man’s adversary? John Milton did. At times, I find that interesting to look at as well. Non-Binary Paradise Revealed by Michael Romani Consider if you might … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversary, Beauty, Contrast, Darkness, Degree of Separation, Dissonance, God, Heaven, Hell, Humanity, John Milton, Line, Mankind, Narrow, Noble, Non-Binary, Perception, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Prosecutor, Revelation, Satan, Soul, Story, Strict, Unfold
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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. https://flic.kr/p/q4tKWX 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 … 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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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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