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In Remembrance of Notre Dame
In memory of the burning of Notre Dame 04/2019 and as originally posted on my Flickr account: In Remembrance of Notre Dame by Michael Romani Standing there in the center of the ancient cityGloriously symbolic in its early beloved pietyThe … Continue reading
Finding Our Way Home
There’s no place like home – there before the hearth’s warmth, knowing where we truly belong. There is no deeper or richer feeling than to feel love for love’s sake than to love someone even deeper than that. Finding Our … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Agonize, Alientation, Analyze, Antagnozie, Choice, Compromise, Consequence, Dark, Day, Deliver, Demonize, Destination, Devote, Equality, Fate, Find, Forgiver, God Given Right, Ground, Happiness, Heart, Her sdie, Home, Humanity, Humor, Lady, Laughing Eyes, Light, My Place, Our, Patronize, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rationalize, Rumor, Salvation, Struggle, Vanity, Veracity, Walk, Willing
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The Truth of the Present
It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World
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Thought For the Day: Our Children Require Mindful Cultivation To Grow Best
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Attention, Children, Humanity, Jungle, Luther Burbank, Paid, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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In the Suffering of Christ
Based on 1 Peter 2:21-25 In the Suffering of Christ by Michael Romani Suffered for the cause of Holy Christ It is the role that we my bear and live Living to our best and to our finest We suffer … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged 1st Peter, Accept, Atone, Bear, Best, Bow, Cause, Chain Breaker, Christ, Clear, Commands, Confidence, Disobey, Elect, Embrace, Eternal, Faith, Father, Fed, Forgive, Glory, Grace, Gracious, Great Comission, Hands, Head, Heart, Holy, Humanity, Humility, Introspection, Jacob's Ladder, Jesus, Lions, Live, Lord, Perfect Man, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reject, Respond, Role, Salvation, Shepherd, Story, Submission, Suffer, The Way, Troubled Days, Truth, Uncomplaining, Vanity, Walk, Willing
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Skeletons In Our Closet
In biology, we are taught that there is an almost linear path of the forms of mankind. Reality is it was a bit messier. Six species of man existed probably concurrently or at least overlapping. One still stands…. Is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alone, Anthropology, Back, Biology, Book, City, Clean Line, Closet, Cousins, Descent, Die Out, Explanation, Eyes, Fallacy, Family, Fossil, Fratricide, Homo Sapiens, Humanity, Incrimination, Invent, Linear Path, Memory, Neanderthal Man, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretentious, Pride, Rise, Sibliings, Singular, Skeleton, Species, Supress, Test, Tests, Think, Tree, Vanity, Whisper, Wish
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Kyrielle of Empowerment
The Milkwood Poem A Day #10 is the Kyrielle. The word prompt for day 10 is ‘element’. “Kyrielle is a French form inspired by a Christian devotional tradition, the Kyrie.” “Like that call-and-response liturgical form, the kyrielle poem has a … Continue reading
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Tagged Calamity, Coup, Desparation, Effort, Element, Empower, Famine, Finest Hour, Four Horsemen, France, God's Plan, God's Will, Grumble, Humanity, Hunger, Kyrie, Kyrielle, Liturgical, Malnourishment, New Life, Overcome, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Quatrain, Rebuild, Rubble, Starve, Trouble, War
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Thought For the Day: We Have A Moral Responsibility To Protect God’s Creation For Generations To come
“We have a moral responsibility to protect God’s creation for generations to come.“ – Nancy Pelosi Precisely, Ms. Pelosi.. stop right at that juncture and you couldn’t be more right. Which is why Nicki Haley responded what immediately came to … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Generations, God's Creation, Humanity, Moral, Nancy Pelosi, Nicki Haley, Protect, Reponsibility, Thought For the Day, Touche, We
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Hunting Himmler – A Found Poem
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #6 is the Found Poem form and has as its word prompt “gravity”. A found poem is quite literally that. Scanning through the written material of others a little snatch of verbiage here and there catch’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allies, Chaos, Checkpoint, Collaborate, Conspiracy, Cruel, Cyanide, Defeat, Destruction, Devil, Disguise, Dr. Wells, Due, Elbe, Escape, Found Poem, German, Henrich Himmler, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Humanity, Identity, Industrial, Justice, Legacy, Mercedes Benz, Mistake, Nazi Germany, Newsreel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prisoner of War, Prussic Acid, Refugees, Reich, Served, Sinister, Society, Villans
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We Who Would Be Gods
Some folks believe that we stand on the verge of a merger between man, machine and artificial intelligence. They espouse this prerogative as a next step in the evolution of mankind. Intriguing isn’t it? Some easily evident pluses. A … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bequest, Certain, Children, Defeat, Destiny, Discipline, Evolution, Force of Nature, Gods, History, Humanity, Inferior, Integrity, Kill, Lame, Legacy, Machine, Man, Merge, Name, Natural Cause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Revolution, Sin, Superior, Third Millenium, Unseat, We
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