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Breathe the Legacy
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day Four challenge is to write a sad poem. That’s easy enough to do this time around. Someone who is increasingly important to me beyond nearly all measure of my meager words recently lost someone. I can … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Born, Brave, Breathe, Dare, Deep, Defense, Family, Footstep, Force, Fragrant, Heart, History, Hurt, Legacy, Liberty, Life, Live, Lost, Lost Child, Love, Modern World, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Right, Sad, Show, Soul, Speak Well, Steep, Step, Tender, Tough, Truth, Vancouver, Win, Woman
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Memory Inspires the Future
Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apology, Atrocity, Better, Consequence, Crimes Against Humity, Cultural Amnesia, Dignity, Dwell, Equa;ity, Evade, Forgive, France, Fratenrity, Free, Freedom, Future, Grievance, Guadaloupe, History, Humanism, Inspire, Isle, Legacy, Les Colons, Memory, Moving Forward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconciliation, Sidestep, Slavery, Slight, Stain, Sugar Factory
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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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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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Window Shopping
Life – it’s a flash, a bit of dash, and then maybe it’s over before we even know it’s begun… Window Shopping by Michael Romani It’s strange all those little things That make up our memory All the flashes and … Continue reading
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Tagged All Hallow's Eve, Apart, Branch, Charm, City Street, Country Lane, Dash, Different, Dream, Dust, Excavation, Expectation, Family Tree, Flash, Friends, Game, Happy, Heart, Highland, Legacy, Life, Living History, Meet, Memory, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Ruin, Same, Samhain, Shop, Song of Life, Strangers, Will, Window, You
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A Study On Passover
Some have accused me of being a fool for God…. To them, I reply. Why yes, thank you, I am… but I am your fool. Dedicated to God and to serving my fellow humanity. It matters not how little … Continue reading
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Tagged Day, Destination, Donkey, Egypt, Evening, Family, Feast, God, History, Hosanna, King of Kings, Legacy, Memory, Messiah, Mount Olive, Pages, Palm Leaves, Palm Sunday, Passover, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prophecy, Proverb, Sacred, Sermon on the Mount, Slavery, Study, Talk, Tribulation, Unfold, Unleavened Bread, Walk
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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
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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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To Harvest the Wind: School Daze
Part I in a series under development: To Harvest the Wind: School Daze by Michael Romani I. A breeze touches the savanna grass As the tribesmen dance in a pass Harvesting corn; some barely living This harsh life can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Africa, Brutal, Corn, Daze, Decision, Democracy, Dream, Education, Engrave, Fire, Fruit, Government, Harsh Life, Harvest, Headmaster, High Stakes, Jungle, Kindness, Know, Kuefesa, Legacy, Life, Morn, Opportunity, Peace, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Prayer, Price, Rain, Savanna, School, School Clothes, Seeds, Sky, Sow, Struggle, Take, Tobacco, Tribe, Village, Water, Wind
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Further Destiny
Who are we to deny who we really are? Further Destiny by Michael Romani In a shivered ship of cold He sang a song remembered from old Ever bitter in its minding Lost without hope of finding That knife blade … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter, Breath, Broke, Cast Away, Cold, Crash, Dash, Despair, Destiny, Find, Knife Blade, Legacy, Light, Lost, Matter, Minding, North Star, Old, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rock, Self Deceive, Shatter, Ship, Shiver, Shoal, Song, Splash, Thunder, Wave
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Revelations No. 2
Based in part on 1 Cor 15:24 : Revelations No. 2 by Michael Romani Caught up in the end days thundering Lost up in speculation and wondering We find ourselves looking for redemption Seeking this out in our stark contemplation … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged 1 Corinthians, Alpha, Contemplation, Death, Defeat, Destination, Divine, End Days, Faith, Final Days, First, Full Circle, Future, Heed, History, Jesus, Keys of the Kingdom, Kingdom, Last, Legacy, Lesson, Lord, Omega, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Redemption, Restore, Revelation, Righteous, Ruin, Salvation, Second Adam, Seeker, Service, Shield, Sorrow, Speculation, Steadfast, Thunder, Tomorrow, Truth, Wonder, Word
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