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Long Knife
I watched part of a Western tonight after not having watched one for years. So far two poems from it and over an hour more to go. Isn’t it interesting how there is a poem in just about everything. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Bleeding Heart, Burn, Cure, Death, Distress, Drink, Felt, Hesitation, Hours, Long Knife, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Storied Life, Think, Western
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Daily Prompt – Bell
The wheel of life keeps turning around Always revealing, never concealing What waits for us all to be found When we face the truth, God be willing There it is just beyond that veil Striking true, clear as a ringing … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bell, Belladonna, Blindness, Daily Prompt, Fallen Pride, Lady, Pain, Revealing, Right, Truth, Turn, Veil, Wheel of Life
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Casting Away Our Sins
Genesis Casting Away Our Sin by Michael Romani The Word of God is for His People All of us who gather in his steeple And so it is that we need again To adhere to remove our sins It doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Casting Away, Children of God, Compromise, Crown, Fulfillment, Grace, Inequity, Living History, Monuments, Pain, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reality, Sins, Steeple, Word of God
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Mentor
There is, I think, a splinter in my eye I said as I did my best John Wayne And pretended I would not cry She would not, I think, like my pain Yoshiko had been my mentor and my friend … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daily Prompt, Grandmother, Hero, John Wayne, Learned, Lessons, Mentor, Pain, Preaching, Sensei, Soul, Splinter, Teaching, Wordpress, Yoshiko
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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
War Drums Beating
War Drums Beating by Michael Romani The war drums are beating There is no more retreating But for you, the battle is over You will be buried in clover Your fight is over my friend Your path has come to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Battle, Cared, Company, Death, End, Friend, God, Great Beyond, Missed, Other Side, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reliance, Tears, True Born, War Drums, Warrior
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First Principles: It Is Paramount To Distinguish Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Criticism, Distinguish, First Prinicples, Free Market of Ideas, Free Speech, Free Thought, Government, Hate, Liberality, Overcoming, Pain, Personality, Positions
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Pain Is To Love In Vain
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Abraham Crowley, English, Love, Pain, Poet, Thought For the Day, Unrequitted
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 