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Your Body Is A Metaphor

Your Body Is A Metaphor by Michael Romani There, I said it Your body is a metaphor I’m telling you, sister It’s a real tongue twister One might argue it as intentional And way beyond conventional Problematically slippery when wet … Continue reading

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Super Blue Moon

Super Blue Moon by Michael Romani There’s an extraordinary promise To be found in the super blue moon So she says and in introspection, I compromise Basking in the glow and say we’ll see soon Internally thinking blood moon, blue … Continue reading

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The Man In the Bottle

Continuing with my daughter’s challenge to me, we have a poem based on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 2: The Man In the Bottle by Michael Romani A couple infinitely patient and quite gentle The Castles have lived life … Continue reading

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King Nine Will Not Return

https://flic.kr/p/qGBbJC Continuing in the Series for my eldest daughter Angie, based on original Twilight Zone series, Season 2, Episode 1 King Nine Will Not Return by Michael Romani The place is Africa in 1943 Where war spits out so violently … Continue reading

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Finding Future In the Past

Based on a Sermon centered on The Book of Joshua:4-5 Finding Future In the Past by Michael Romani In the Word of God, for the People of God We remember the past in praise of God Its a matter of … Continue reading

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In A Field of Waco Lilies

In A Field of Waco Lilies by Michael Romani In this world filled with wonders There are time of profound blunders Like putting faith in hucksters of lost souls Who sell joy through lies that make minds blow And a … Continue reading

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Rules of Femininity

Rules of Femininity by Michael There is something best told Directly and with complete clarity Of how the unspoken happens and unfolds With greatest inadvertent transparency That femininity has its own set of rules That which they don’t teach at … Continue reading

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Let It Roll

Isaiah 42 Let It Roll by Michael Romani All these obsessive intentions Play into the one contention That things slip through our hands For a reason that I don’t understand A quiet voice whispers to me Boy, you gotta let … Continue reading

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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

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Splintering Healed

Splintering Healed by Michael Romani From Peter to Paul We take in it all celebrating an Octave Of sacred Christian unity That we might have The linked arms of you and me Leading to Holy Pentecost A holy procession for … Continue reading

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