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Tag Archives: Mortal
Jesus Wept (Ephphatha)
God took the form of man and lived experiencing all that we do. In so doing, He experienced all of our feelings. Based in part on John 11:38: Jesus Wept (Ephphatha) by Michael Doyle One of the best secrets never … Continue reading
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Tagged Agony, Angst, Beyond, Blood, Brokenness, Cacophony, Childbirth, Circle, Clear, Comfort, Convey, Courage, Deaf, Dealt, Deep, Deeply, Depth, Deserve, Despite, Divinity, Ears, Earth, Eden, Embrace, Ephphatha, Experience, Fallen, Family, Father, Feeling, Felt, Garden, Gethsemane, Glimpse, God, Grief, Groan, Hear, Heaven, Home, Hope, Humanity, Jesus, John, Loss, Lost, Man, Measure, Melody, Memory, Mercy, Mirth, Miss, Moan, Mortal, Move, Mud, Open, Outspokenness, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, Regain, Relief, Remember, Secret, Sin, Sound, Steady, Storm Cloud, Symphony, Teach, Tears, Touch, True North, Truth, Vain, Way, Wept, Within, Words, Worth
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Fragments Beyond Authenticity
In the words of Bob Dylan, the times are indeed a-changin’ Fragments Beyond Authenticity by Michael Doyle In a world less versed in prophecy Caught up in its whirl of hypocrisy The by-word become feigned authenticity And nothing is scarier … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Authenticity, Being, Beyond, Bleed Out, Bob Dylan, Brilliance, By-Word, Candlelit, Cannon, Caw, Change, Choose, Concrete, Crush, Cry, Defeat, Descent, Dream, Exist, Extinguish, Fabric, Fall, Fatal, Feign, Flaw, Flesh, Flight, Fragment, Grace, Heat, Honesty, Humans, Hypocrisy, Indifference, Ineuendo, Insist, Knowledge, Meaning, Mere, Mortal, Night, Particles, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pour, Precious Life, Prophecy, Punctuality, Pure, Raven, Reality, Realize, Resiliance, Restore, Revelation, Scare, Science, Seams, Shift, Solace, Soul, Stained Glass, Sword, Time, Truth, Unified, Vigil, Whirl, World
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Ode To A Mermaid Friend
A new friend who helped me in getting my bearings in the new place I have in SL and encourages me to form a poetry group there is a mermaid. We were talking about the funny quips she has on … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Celestial, Chian, Comb, Control, Dejavu, Depth, Destiny, Dream, Drown, Emotion, Eternity, Fade, First Light, Food, Friend, Gold, Jester, Kingdom, Legend, Long Hair, Lose, Magic, Mahogany, Mer Men, Mermaid, Mood, Mortal, Music, Mystery, Mystical, Nature, Night, Ocean, Ode, Opinion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Shrimp, Sin, Siren, Soul, Spare, Tale, Tempt, Tragic, Wept, Word, Wreck
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Death Under the Moon
Halloween Poem #16: Death Under the Moon by Michael Romani With our demons friended All light has ended We walk in the darkness Keenly aware of our harshness Such is the power and insistence That good gives way without resistance … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Conceit, Creature, Dark, Daylight, Death, Deliver, Demon, End, Feed, Fog, Freed, Friend, Fright, Full Moon, Glory, Good, Halloween, Harshness, Hide, Kiss, Know, Light, London, Miss, Moon, Mortal, Nerve, Night, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Ravage, Resist, Reveal, Satisfy, Shine, Story, Truth, Walk, Wrath, Youth
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A Bleakness of Breath
Continuing on my semi-gothic mood, Halloween Poem #8: A Bleakness of Breath by Michael Romani In a cemetery of bleakness Down from the Devil’s house In a coldness that speaks of this There is a tremble as quiet as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Apparition, Bleak, Breath, Buried, Carried, Caw, Cemetery, Child, Cold, Crawl, Daughter, Dead, Death, Deliver, Devil, Disguise, End, Evil, God, Good, Goth, Guest, Halloween, Lilith, Lost, Morbid, Mortal, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Raven, Resistance, Serene, Sinners, Sixpence, Spite, Striking Distance, Struggle, Tremble, Troubles, Venom, Vision
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Thought For the Day: We Are All Mortal Until the First Kiss and Second Glass of Wine
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” – Eduardo Galeano
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Tagged Eduardo Galeano, First Kiss, Mortal, Second Glass, Thought For the Day, We, Wine
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First Principles: We Must Accept Human Beings As We Find Them Without Expecting Perfection
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – George Washington (1786)
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Tagged Find, First Principles, George Washington, Human Nature, Mortal, Perfection, We
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Price of Pride
Love of power breed ambition and that’s really not what we need in leaders. What we need is those who have vision and come to serve the people. Yet, that’s rarely the way of those interested in politics is it? … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Blade, Bring, Claim, Dark, Dark Secret, Death, Deception, Defile, Denial, Desert, Dust, End, Evil, False, Fatal, Feel, Fend, Fustration, Glory, Greet, Hell, Immortality, Key, King, Knowledge, Left, Madness, Mortal, Mortality, Mystery, Mystic, Nowhere, Oracle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Price, Pride, Reaper, Sanskrit, Secret, Serve, Smile, Soul, Spell, Sun, Think, Trouble
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Even the Gods Die Alone
Sort of a part two. Life is what it is, right? https://flic.kr/p/29k3jFH Even the Gods Die Alone by Michael Romani Even the gods die alone She said with a heart of stone And still I’ll miss her With memories of … Continue reading


