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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
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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
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First Principles: Beware of Too Many High Sounding Words Absent Accompanying Actions
“We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.” – Abigail Adams
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Actions, Correspond, Difficutl, Expectation, Few, Fire, First Principles, High Sounding, Hope, Noble, Ouselves, Private Ambition, Public Wellbeing, Quench, Sacrifice, Souls, Task, Undertaking, Words
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Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success
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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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A Pillow’s Talk of Things
The ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo is based on the lists found in Sei Shonagon’ s The Pillow Talk. As the hour has grown later than I had hoped and only just recently finished a show along with a late dinner and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Attention, Attitude, Beast, Beloved, Best, Best Intention, Breeze, Bring, Busy Day, Care, Chase, Chase Circles, Cloud, Confide, Confusion, Conquer, Cry, Delight, Depression, Despise, Difference, Diffidence, Enchantment, Eye to Eye, Face, Fascination, Find, Fruits, Game, God's Daughter, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heart, Heart Sing, Hope, Hour, Imagination, Impression, Intention, Keep, Knowledge, Known, Lady Love, Last, Late, Laughter, Lifetimes, Love, Memory, Mesmerize, Mind, Moon, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Power, Precious, Prove, Pure, Questions, Raindrop, Reason Why, Rendition, Respect, Rule, Save, Sei Shonagon, Share, She, Sigh, Smile, Solitary Power, Soul, Sparkle, Spell Caster, Tantalize, Tear, Tears, Test, The Pillow Talk, Thought, Times, Tree House, Trouble, Upset, Voice, Vow, Way, Word, Words
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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
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A Prairie Sky’s Truth
Sometimes seeing things differently is mental illness; sometimes it’s seeing things differently. A show I was watching at the suggestion of a person who is increasingly important to me portrayed that in an interesting bit that I have attempted to … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Anticipation, Behind, Blind, Blue, Cancer, Candle, Delusion, Different, Disappear, Disturb, Dream, Drown, Expectation, Eyes, Find, Free, Grow, Help, Home, Hope, Illusion, Kid, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Long, Lost, Love, Mediate, Medicate, Melody, Mental Illness, Mind, Night, Numb, Pain, Passing Year, Person, Perspective, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Prairie Sky, Pray, Question, Return, Reverent, Say, Science, Sense, Signs, Silent Scream, Sleep, Society, Strong, Think, Treat, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Words, You and I
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On Outrunning Grief
You cannot outrun grief. On Outrunning Grief by Michael Romani It has been said And I assume it’s true Words from inside my head That same for me; the same for you You hide yours in a diary I keep … Continue reading
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