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Mathing the COVID-19 Curve
Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918 Influenza, Absence, Application, Base Reproduction Number, Basic, Breath, Business As Usual, Change, Common Sense, Consistent, Contact, Contact Rate, COVID-19, Crucial, Current Data, Curve, Daily, Death, Decrease, Degrees, Depend, Direction, Doubt, Early Action, Epidemic, Escape, Exponential, Fact, Fate, Feedback Loop, Fire, Flatten, Gasoline, Good Habits, Grave, Heal, Heed, Horror, Hospital Beds, Hour, Humans, Illness, Impact, Increase, Infected, Infection, Keep Calm, Land, Linear, Little, Lives, Logarithmic Scale, Map, Math, Medical Care, Mid-April, Mind, Mitigate, Model, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nations, Nerves, News Article, Non-Linear, Numb, Numbers, Outbreak, Overblown, Overflow, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Population, Potential, Power, Practice, Project, Proportion, Reduce, Remove, Resiliency, Sad, Safe, Same, Sanitation, Save, Seal, See, Seen, Shown, SIR Curve, Social Distancing, Society, Staggering, Steady, Straight Line, Supplication, Susceptible, Tale, Time, Trajectory Rates, Trouble, Understand, Vaccine, Virus
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An Indictment of the 20th Century
We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two
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Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary
Based in part on Psalms 37:4: Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary by Michael Romani Finding happiness in the Lord to find our desires Keeping our sights on the inspiration of our fire Gathering the cornerstones of our days of … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Bright, Building, Chase, Commandment, Commitment, Commune, Cornerstone, Days, Deep, Delight, Devotion, Divinity, Done, Embrace, Emotion, Eternity, Father, Fire, Forgiven, Forward, Frame, Fruit, Given, Grace, His, Home, Immortality, Inspiration, Kingdom, Know, Laughter, Life, Light, Lives, Lord, Love, Magic, Meaning, Mind, Need, Observe, Path, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Power, Process, Promise, Psalms, Read, Real, Reason, Relationship, Right, Righteousness, Sanctuary, Season, Servant, Serve, Shine, Sight, Steps, Toward, Tragice, Trigger, Truth, Why, Worship, Yoke
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Rules of the Beast I
A sort of start at a poetic retelling of the classic Dracula tale: Rules of the Beast I by Michael Romani As the approach is made to castle There is fear amongst its vassals A crucifix is given in protection … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bats, Beast, Blood, Castle, Chill, Choice, Circumspect, Compare, Contradiction, Count, Creaks, Crucifix, Death, Destination, Dracula, Drop, Embrace, Fear, Groans, heartbeat, Heaven, Home, Humanity, Jonathan Harker, Knock, Known, Labyrinth, Learn, Life, Lives, Lock, Love, Maze, Mirror, Mistake, Numb, Oblige, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Prison, Protect, Pulse, Question, Rules, Shadow, Shown, Snare, Solace, Soul, Startle, Step, Stumble, Turn, Vanity, Vassal, Veins, Voice, Window
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