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First Principles: For the Love of Country They Accepted Death, and Thus Resolved All Doubts, and Made Immortal Their Patriotism and Their Virtue
“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” – James A. Garfield In memoriam for this Memorial Day: Please take a moment to say a prayer for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Country, Death, Doubt, First Principles, Immortal, James A. Garfield, Love, Memorial Day, Patriotism, Resolve, Virtue
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First Principles: For Love of Country They Accepted Death, and Thus Resolved All Doubts, and Made Immortal Their Patriotism and Their Virtue
“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” – James Garfield, at the Arlington National Cemetery
First Principles: I Never Doubted, For Instance, the Existence of the Deity; That He Made the World, and Governed It By His Providence
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptable Service, All Crime, Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Deity, Doing Good, Doubt, Existence, First Principles, God, Govern, Here, Hereafter, Immortal, Made, Man, Providence, Punished, Rewarded, Souls, Virtue, World
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Thought For the Day: I Would Rather Be Politically Buried Than To Be Hypocritically Immortalized
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” – Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Beaten, Course, Davy Crockett, Elected, Fearless, Hypocritically, Immortal, Independent, Man, Measures, Never Regret, Not Men, Politically Buried, Principles, Puppy Dog, Support, Thought For the Day
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A Life In Size
The saga of Dracula continues: A Life In Size by Michael Doyle In the dark castle hangs her face A painting of the sunlight he once embraced Hidden within were passages of a maze Guarded from the sun that continues … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Belief, Blame, Blaze, Blessing, Blood, Broken, Castle, Cave, Creatures of the Night, Cryptic, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Dracula, Eat, End, Ending, Evil, Eyes, Face, Faith, Glow, Good, Gory, Guard, Guess, Hang, Hope, Hunger, Immortal, Immortality, Know, Language, Life, Light, Love, Loveless Marriage, Lucifer, Maze, Monster, Mortal, Pain, Painting, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Quest, Roof, Safety, Saga, Save, Secret, Shock, Sight, Size, Sky, Story, Sun, Sung, Sunlight, Taste, Time, Touch, Truth, Understood, Undone, Unspoken, Vampire, Warmth
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A Keening of Cause
Halloween Poem #9: A Keening of Cause by Michael Romani Fallen into second sight’s vision I find myself lost in indecision There inside that stinging fog Sawn in half like a totem’s log It’s too late for what will come … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood, Burn, Cause, Danger, Darkness, Death, Doom, Drum, Eye, Fall, Fog, Gateway, Halloween, Hear, History, Immortal, Keen, Lamentation, Late, Legacy, Lost, Lucifer, Mystery, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Raven, Scar, Second Sight, Shine, Tattoo, Thrill, Totem, Wall, Will
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Ways of Survival
In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Angry, Arrive, Blessing, Blue, Chill, Cry, Do, Dream, Earth, Empathy, End, Extinction, Fall, Fear, Fire, Forget, Fragile, Frame, Guesstimate, Happen, History, Immortal, Leaves, Life, Love, Mad Tea Party, Mass, Mercy, Moments, Mother Nature, Name, Passing Year, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Push, Rake, Realize, Regret, Resources, Revolve, Ripple, Serial Killer, Skipped Stone, Strife, Struggle, Suicide, Survival, Survive, Think, Way
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Human 2.0
Admittedly, two poems on the same topic in the same day isn’t my usual style. That being said, as I was looking at concept of what it means for the human race that money might well buy its way to … Continue reading
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Tagged A-mortal, Anxiety, Biology, Cerebral, Commonplace, Complexity, Console, Cry Wolf, Dignity, Eternity, Ethics, Extend, Faithless, Fear, Fifth Avenue, Funeral, Generation, History, Human 2.0, Human Being, Human Race, Immortal, Infinity, Lean, Legacy, Lifetime, Living, Lordship, Loss, Mistake, Narcissist, Natural Limits, Nature, Nomenclature, Pages, Pain, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rethink, Sad, Science, Service, Soul, Span, Sublime, Superior, Tarnish, Tattoo, Technology, Theology, Tremble, Veneration, Worship
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Constant Flux
Constant Flux by Michael Romani Poetry finds its way to breach distance As two hearts meld into one romance This life is for the living Though often harsh and unforgiving Still, it is only death that makes life immortal As … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Circle, Concrete, Constant, Contradiction, Distance, Dreamers, Flux, Immortal, Living, Obliteration, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Romance, Unforgiving
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