Tag Archives: Reflection

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Branch

There is beauty in so many surprising things Unexpected joy that makes the heart sing Everywhere it is there waiting to be found If we’d only look for it as it surrounds An exposure of gnarled branches in a ravine … Continue reading

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Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room

Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room by Michael Romani Jackie Rhoades stumbles into age thirty four Like a blemished dot behind the cheap hotel’s door While some men leave a mark of fragmentary existence All Jackie has are traces … Continue reading

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Puzzled

With a lift of my glass, sometimes sipped sometimes guzzled I give you a look that tells you that I’m quietly puzzled The proposition is that it’s from the puzzles of the past That we find the answers that raise … Continue reading

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First Principles: It Is Better To Die Free Than Live As Slaves

“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our … Continue reading

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WordPress – #Weekly Photo Challenge – Structure

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Prayerful Contemplation

Based on Matthew 26:40 Prayerful Contemplation by Michael Romani Hard to imagine, Father How you suffered For your sons and daughters There in the garden When the anguish hardened No holiness buffered The pain felt inside From which He could … Continue reading

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