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The Tale Behind the Tail
The Tale Behind the Tailby Michael DoyleSometimes, behind the nucleus and its tail,There is a deeper meaning, a tale within a tale.There is a pervasive feeling in the cosmic trackOf an object that continuously makes its way back.Some see this … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbitrator, Atmosphere, Bringer of Life, Change, Comet Tail, Cosmic Track, Damaged and Broken, Deep Meaning, Fear, Feeling, Fleeting Stars, Harmoize, Hear, Hope, Millennia, Nighttime Skies, Nucleus, Object, Outspoken, Passage of Time, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Poets, Shooting Stars, Strife, Tale, Transformation, Universe, Unspoken Verse, Verbal Collectibles, Words
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First Principles: Falling Down Is Not A Failure. Failure Comes When You Stay Where You Have Fallen
“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” – Socrates I cannot help but like Socrates, who is quoted as saying that poets are the interpreters of the gods. We are not, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Challenge, Come, Dust Ourselves Off, Encounters, Failure, Fallen, Falling Down, First Principles, Giving up, Gods, Grow, Growth Mindset, Humor, Interpreters, Lamp Filament, Learn, Life, Life's Journey, Mistakes, Motivation, Obstacles, Opportunity, Overcome, Perseverance, Personal Growth, Poets, React and Respond, Resilience, Rethinking, Setbacks, Significant Error, Socrates, Stay, Stepping Stones, Success, Suitable Approaches, Surrender, Think, Thomas Edison, Time To Time, Vain, Wise
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Thought For the Day: God Used Beautiful Mathematics To Create the World
“God used beautiful mathematics to create the world.” – Paul Dirac Though Dirac seems to have been an atheist with far too much trust in humanity, he was certainly correct in his premise that the universe is beautifully profound and … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheist, Beautiful, Create, Empirical Observation, God, Humanity, Mathematics, Paul Dirac, Poets, Profound, Sound, Thought For the Day, Trust, Universe, World
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Thought For the Day: Nobody Has Ever Measured, Not Even Poets, How Much the Human Heart Can Hold
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist (24 Jul 1900-1948)
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Tagged Hold, Human Heart, Measure, Much, Nobody, Poets, Thought For the Day, Zelda Fitzgerald
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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While You Named the Stars For Me
It’s the eighth day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020! Today’s optional prompt is to take bits of Twitter bot generated poets and run with it to make it our own. I have no idea what others did, but, it seemed the thing … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Anything, Bot, Brings, Broken, Calculation, Contain, Decliine, Deep Valley, Deities, Dependable, Desire, Despite, Disguise, Dreamless Sleep, Faithful, Frailty, Grandmother, Happen, Happiness, Hold, Install, Know, Life, Light Thing, Loudly, Lovers, Masters of Reality, Me, Moments, Monuments, Moon, Muse, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Oracles, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Rest, Sense, Shatter, Silver, Sorrow, Speak, Stall, Stars, Sun, Swans, Treats, Twitter, What To Do, Wise Men, Words, You
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Much To Do With Everything
Day 28 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2019… and what’s the goal.. to write a poem about poetry and poets and who is this what is that and does it have any meaning or is it only seeming or.. wait.. that could be … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Friend's Girlfriend, Better, Blowing In the Wind, Brass In Pocket, Casual, Close Exam, Danger, Dust, Employ, Enjoy, Everything, Family, Grew Up, Leather, Long, Much, Music Died, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nights In White Satin, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Pretenders, Rainbow, Simple Rhymes, Song, Space Cowboy, Stranger, Think, Times, Van Gogh, Words
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National Poetry Writing Month/Global Poetry Writing Month
It is that time of the year again!! Poets across America and indeed the world unfurl their writing flags and prepare to engage in mental combat with the esteemed challenge to write a poem a day for a month. Not … Continue reading
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