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Burn It Down
Burn It Down by Michael Romani Trying to figure out What happens next Life lived with doubt Following dots that no longer connect It’s who I am, they say It will never again be right Swimming upstream just to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Death, Gunfight, Heartbreak, Life, Mean Street, Photograph, Poem, Poetry
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Cloaked
The dark of cloud cloaked the moon Speaking warning of the storm coming soon Isn’t is strange how life has these changes Where everything we know rearranges And even that which might at first seem scary Looks us in the … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Clarity, Cloaked, Clouds, Daily Prompt, Life, Moon, Recovery, Storm, Wordpress
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First Principles: Americans Should Always Remember Our Blessings
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans, Belief, Blessings, First Principles, Guard, Improve, Independence, Inheritance, Joseph Story, Life, Noble, Posterity, Property, Sacrifice
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Whispers of Truth
Whispers of Truth by Michael Romani The whispers said I’d find the truth And I’d been an admirer since my youth First question I admit that I had And yes, I know that it’s a little sad Is does the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absurd, Creativity, Crude, Depravity, Greener Grass, Intention, Isle of Misfit Toys, Lessons, Life, Lost Boys, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poison Ivy, Thinking, Truth, Whispers
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Genius
Out on the playa, they drip coffee intravenous Hoping to sip a spark of that creative genius Playing at a burning man’s sense of games Living love in all of its colors and names There is a lot to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Burning Man, Celebration, Coffee, Creative Spark, Daily Prompt, Desert, Genius, Life, Photograph, Playa, Poem, Wordpress
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In A Void of Grace
In A Void of Grace by Michael Romani There is a constancy to aging with grace While we watch the globe changing its face Names that reveal more about our yesterdays Telling more about our all too human ways Than … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Grace, Humanity, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Vanity, Void
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Thought For the Day: Be You
“If I try to be like him, who will be like me?” – Yiddish proverb There’s an open secret in life. If you listen very closely, you can hear it. Be you, says the wind, the rain, the sun and … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Life, Me, Proverb, Thought For the Day, Universal, Yiddish, You
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Athletic
There is a motion in these waves that is aesthetic Know best by those of us who they call athletic Living in that cosmic instant known as now Lingering and reacting and merging with it somehow As we slide along … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetic, Athletic, Daily Prompt, Fluidity, Learning to Live, Life, Live, Love, Now, Ocean, Ride, Take and Give, Waves, Wipeout, Wordpress
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First Principles: God Governs the Affairs of Man
“I’ve lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Christianity, First Principles, God, Governance, House, Life, Nation, Sparrow
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die – Montaigne
“Que sçay-je?” “What do I know?” – Montaigne, in an Apology for Raymond Sebond Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne lived from February 28, 1533 through September 13, 1592. Considered one of the significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Essais, Harvard Classics, Life, Montaigne, That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die, Truth, Wisdom
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 