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Magical Realism
Magical Realismby Michael DoyleArt and thought are productsOf their own serial momentsPop culture and serious artAre both expressions of the heartTugged down into the complex mazeOf primeval strugglesBetween those who naval gazeAnd those who merely bungleMagical realism shines its conceitAs … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Accepted Mystery, Art and Thought, Aspirations, At Home, Bungle, Conceit, Concrete Paths, Conspiracy Theorists, Deceit, Deduction, Devastation, Discarded History, Electric Salon, Ethics, Fantasy of Life, Fascination, Flaky, Flow, Geography, Habitual, Half Shaped, Heart, Housewives, Lack, Landscape, Lives, Magical Realism, Maze, Modernity, Narrative, Naval Gaze, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pop Culture, Primeval, Products, Representation, Romantic, Seduction, Serial Moments, Serious Art, Ships, Show, Spiritual, Story Engine, Tugged Down, Universe
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Thought For the Day: What I Find Offensive Is the Narrative From the Left That Black People Are Not Smart Enough…To Do What Every Other Culture and Race Does In This Country: Get An ID
“What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that black people are not smart enough, not educated enough … to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID.” -Congressman Burgess Owens
Theatrical Dawg Bones Thrown
However much the director whines that he’s only got 2 1/2 hours to present his hip hop distortions of American history and however much he manages to make his errors rhyme and dance match the music’s time, I don’t appreciate … Continue reading
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Tagged 1619 Project, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, America, American History, Anyone, Believe, Blackfaced, BLM, Cancel Culture, Catching Lightning In A Bottle, Come A Time, Complex, Contribution, Create, Cull, Debate, Disguise, Distortion, Elevate, Equality, Errors, Evangelists, Fallacious, Falsehoods, Falsity, Feet, Fight, Flip Side, Founders, Frederick Douglass, From the Beginning, Fundamentals, Glory, Great Story, Hamilton, Heart and Soul, Heritage, Hip Hop, History, Holding True, Image, Immigrants, Immigration, Joy, Justice, Land of Mine, Less of a History, Lies, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxism, Marxist, Mediocrity, Misconceived, Miscreant, Musical, Narrative, Nation, Norm, Notions, NPR, Opposed, Outright Mockery, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Presupposed, Principles, Racist Pride, Rap, Realize, Recall, Reflective, Repercussions, Reserve Racism, Revolution, Rhyme and Dance, Rock the Streets, Ruin, Seen As, Set Loose, Shame, Shine, Society, Speaking In Terms, Spotlight, Study, Stupdendous, Theater, Transform, Trap, Travesty, Truth, Well Rehearsed, Youth
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Holding Hands With the Sun
Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me
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In A Relative Theory of Violin
Happiest National Violin Day! In A Relative Theory of Violin by Michael Romani I know it’s all relative but who’s to argue But to play well one must add in divisions of two At least often, if you happen to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1922, Affinity, Architecture, Audience, Beauty, Beethoven, Ceremony, Choice, Complex, Count, Cry, Daydream, Disparate, Divisions, Encore, Fear, Fragments, Frame, Great Unified Theory of Everything, Influence, Inner Unity, Instrument, Japan, Joy, Kreutzer Sonata, Love, Math, Melody, More, Music, Name, Narrative, National Violin Day, Nobel Prize, Note, Photograph, Physics, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Positive, Relative, Relax, Score, Seams, Smile, Song, Sphere, Stress, Superlative, Tax, Theory, Uncle Albert, Universe, Violin, Voice
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Tradeau
Funny thing about pointing fingers, when you do, for your one finger pointed, three point back at the accuser most often. This truism seems to proven itself this time around. Tradeau by Michael Romani Well, would you look at … Continue reading
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Tagged Accuser, Blame, Brownface, Change, Did, Embrace, Evidence, Fact, Fascism, Finger Pointing, Heresy, Hypocrisy, Hypocritical, Interesting, Justin Tradeu, Lips, Narrative, Onion, Opinion, Past, Peel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Racism, Rearrange, See, Time, Truism, Truth, What, Who, Youth
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A Western Noir
Tonight’s short poetry workshop combined the genre’s of cowboy poetry and film noir. I went into it unaware we weren’t supposed to combine both.. soooo.. I did just that anyhow. A Western Noir by Michael Romani I was riding through … Continue reading
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Tagged Black hat, Boot Hil, Cynicism, Danger, Desert, Desperado, Film Noir, High Noon, Horse, Jester, Kiss, Miss Kitty, Murder, Narrative, Optimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Master, Preacher, Samauri, Sheriff, Six Gun, Stranger, Town Drunk, Western
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Willful Blindness
Willful Blindness by Michael Romani Few in words but reliable Is the life found viable Stated simply in the declarative The crucial moments in our narrative These crucial moments of unsparing poetry Slip the strictures in blurred novelty The courage … Continue reading
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