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Living Memories of A Man Taking the Name of Chip Takacs
May you rest in peace, Mr. Michael Robert Taska! Heaven has gained a mischieveous, wonderfully humored, good hearted musician for it’s honor guard band. While you walked among us, you made so many smile with happiness. Always so ready with … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study Tools, Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Beautiful Child, Beloved Family, Bible Study Tools, Chip Takacs, Compare, Convention, End, Flair, Forgive, Friend, God, Gratitude, Heaven, Human Being, Intent, Joke, Learn, Life, Living, Love, Loving, Meet, Memory, Michael Robert Taska, Musician, Original, Prayer, Remember, Sing, Song, View, Well Meaning, Worth
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Thought For the Day: Butterflies Lead You To the Sunny Side of Life
“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.” – Jeffrey Glassberg
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Tagged Approachable, Beauty, Butterflies, Deserve, Enchant, Grace, Jeffrey Glassberg, Life, Small, Sunny Side, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Varied
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Talk Is Cheap Rondel
The Poem A Day form for Day#14 is the Rondel form. The word prompt is ‘sunspot’. Sorry to say. But, I am not going to use the word prompt. It’s only provided here in case there is a reader out … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blues, Broody, Cheap, Dissonance, E, Everyday, France, Harmony, Jump Beat, Key, Life, Lost, Melody, Milkwood, Misery, Modern, Moody, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quick Time, Rondel, Talk
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Parallel Parking Haibun
Poem A Day #5 has the Haibun as it’s form. The word prompt is ‘parallel’. That led to some creative thinking on my part. What does one write about with parallel.. geography or basic driving…. “A Haibun = a prose … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blank Spot, Blind Faith, Experience, Faith, Gratitude, Haibun, Haiku, Islands, Journey, Judgment, Lessons, Life, Mainland, Nail, Parallel, Parallel Park, Poem A Day #5, Poetry, Prose Poem, Seams, Strain, Surf, Teen
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Couple of Couplets To Get It Right
Poem A Day #3 is the rhyming couplet form. From Wikipedia: “A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Boy Meets Girl, Caught, Cleave, Close, Couplet, Dance, Danger, Day, Found, Good, Happiness, Joy, Leap, Life, Light, Lost Time, Lovers, Meter, Moon, Night, Oblivioius, One, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poem A Day #3, Poetry, Ran, Regret, Rhyme, Right, Romeo and Juliet, Smile, Stage, Stranger, Swirl, Tight, Time, Together, Two, Whirl, World
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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Time Well Spent
In this age of global interconnection, we face a modern paradox. At the same time that we are more connected than ever, we are also increasingly polarized and alienated from one another. What might have been and can still be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Algorithm, Alienation, Alternative, Balance, Belong, Biometric Sensor, Common, Communicate, Community, Conception, Connect, Dialog, Disconnect, Dividing Line, Ethics, Facebook, Family, Focus, Fogot, Free Speech, Friends, Gatekeeper, Generation, Global, Global Community, Google, Happy, Humanity, Imperative, Inform, Interconnection, Interface, Internet, Isolate, Learn, Life, Local, Modern, Monologue, Narcissism, Offer, One, Opinion, Paradox, Peel, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Profit, Profit Motive, Reach, Repent, Screen Time, Self, Skin, Social Media, Strand, Time, Transform, Twitter Revolution, Tyranny, Unintended Consequence, Virtual Onion
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Thought For the Day: Murder Is Murder; Every Undocumented Infant Deserves A Chance At the American Dream
“Please stop killing undocumented infants who are trying to cross the border of the birth canal in hopes of a better life. Every undocumented infant deserves a chance at the American dream.” – Matt Walsh Reproductive rights, my tush. If … Continue reading
First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In All Mankind
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Character, Conduct, Endeavor, First Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Good Moral Character, Habit, Indelible, Learn, Life, Mankind, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: A Life Has Value As Long As One Values the Life of Others
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” – Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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Tagged Attribute, Compassion, Friendship, Indignation, Life, Love, Simone de Beauvoir, Thought For the Day, Value
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 