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Notions of Landscaping
Continuing in the series on one of my favorite hobbies, photography: Notions of Landscaping by Michael Doyle Still life perfected in the land Just you, the light and what you understand Arriving early, just to stay late Apply your imagination … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerial, Animation, Cake, City Lifee, Complexity, Dance of Life, Day, Define, Devious, Devise, Drama, Early, East, Extra, Fade, Fascination, Feel, Flair, Forget, Frame, Gentle, Good, Hobby, Icing, Imagination, Land, Landscaping, Late, Layer, Less, Light, Look, Meaning, More, Movement, Night, Notions, Obvious, On the Fly, Photograph, Photography, Players, Poem, Poetry, Prefect, Quietness, Red, Reflection, Regret, Rooster, Rural, Seen, Shadow, Stage, Still Life, Stormy, Story, Sunset, Thirds, Trick of Light, Understand, Understood, Visualization, World, You, Zest
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The Way of Swords
A warrior knows the ways of war. It’s that fighting soul so often missing in these times. The Way of Swords by Michael Doyle The way of swords Knows its own destiny Like an apple sliced and cored It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Battlefield, Bone, Brave, Brief, Chance, Death, Destiny, Doubt, Fear, Fight, Forget, Forsaken, God's Will, History, King, Legendary, Live, Moment, Own, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pull, Regret, Savage, Soul, Swords, Tale, Thrall, Victory, Warrior, Way, Ways of War, Whittle
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It Came As It Did
First Friday and third day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020. Today’s prompt is to create a word bank based on 10 key words and then not necessarily using all but keeping in mind an effort to echo the rhymes for these until … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic, Act, Allegory, Allow, Anomaly, Avoid, Badly, Behave, Beset, Bight, Biochemical, Bite, Brave, Bright, Bright Side, Bungalow, Came, Cave, Cold Sweat, Come What May, Community, Compare, Dance, Depression, Destination, Did, Dog Day, Domino, Elf, Epidemic, Even So, Everything, Fair, Family, Fight, Find, Finite, Foreheads, Gave, Government, Hand, Here, Hesitation, Hold, Home, Hope, I, Immunity, Impression, Impunity, Interest, Isolated, Isolation, Laugh, Library, Light, Love, Mandatory, Mask, Matters, Meaning, Memory, Middle, Might, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo 20/20, Nation, Night, Noewhere, Noose, Old Play, Opportunity, Origins, Outline, Pair, Pandemic, Perfected, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Poor Me, Pour Me, Prayer, Promise, Psession, Question, Really, Recession, Regret, Roll, Rolling Wave, Rumor, Save, Science, Sew, Share, Shatters, Somewhere, Spread, Stare, Startle, Story, Stubbed Toe, Survive, Systemic, Tell, There, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transparency, Travel Ban, Trite, Understand, Unity, Watch, Weaponize, Window, Woe, Word Bank, World, You
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Heirlooms In the Shadows
Haunted graveyards anyone? Heirlooms In the Shadows by Michael Doyle Where there is wanton violence There is always fear in that place You can feel it in the silence That permeates darkness in that space Standing there with the coffin … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Believable, Bleak, Bury, Chance, Coffin, Crime, Crypt, Dance, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Evil, Family Secret, Fear, Grave, Graveyard, Haunt, Heard, Heirloom, Horror, Ignorant, Inconceivable, Incur, Jewelry, Know, Locked Away, Many, Mausoleum, Moonlight, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretend, Price, Promise, Regret, Respect, Save, Shadow, Silence, Stride, Told, Truth, Unfold, Violence, Welcome
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More Forgiveness Than I Deserve
The part of the sermon that I caught today had to do with forgiveness. Really I suppose it’s a matter of perception, correct? And it’s not about deserving. We all deserve ‘justice’. What we get is God’s mercy and love … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind, Blessed, Check, Christ, Conscience, Cross, Deserve, Embrace, Flow, Forget, Forgive, Forgiveness, Gift, Glad, God, Grace, Grateful, Happiness, His, Hope, Justice, Letting Go, Live, Lord, Love, Mercy, Mind, More, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Presence, Regret, Self, Sermon, Slight, Stress, Strife, Surrender, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Wrongs
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Thought For the Day: When One Door Closes, Another Opens
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
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Tagged Alexander Graham Bell, Close, Closed Door, Door, Long, Look, Often, One, Open, Regret, See, Thought For the Day
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Shelf Life
Today Is National Fruit Cake Day!! (run….) Shelf Life by Michael Romani Raise a glass of eggnog in good cheer Blessed by this holiday time of year But what do we do about this one gift One that creates sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Bless, Brandy, Cheer, Christmas Time, Crime, Cup, Fill, Food, Fruit, Gift, Grandma, Guilty Pleasure, Holiday, Improve, Mayhem, National Fruit Cake Day, Nuts, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poke, Pretend, Regret, Reject, Revile, Rib, Rift, Roman, Rubber, Sages, Sculpture, Sentence, Shelf Life, Shudder, Sight, Smile, Sweet, Taste, Treasure, Treat, Unique, Waste
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In the Tall Grass
Halloween Poem #28 In the Tall Grass by Michael Romani It’s there in the tall grass Out in the muck and mire That tall, tall grass That feeds on your desire Never letting you pass Out there in the tall, … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Alright, Bluff, Comfort, Crown, Cycle, Desire, Discern, Doubt, Down, Fact, Fear, Feed, Forget, Forgiveness, Found, Give, Giving, Grass, Grief, Ground, Halloween, Hold On, Jester, Keep, Lay, Learn, Lesson, Letting Go, Live, Love, Mire, Muck, Natural, Nothing, Our, Out, Outlive, Pass, Past, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Puzzle, Real Man, Redemption, Regret, Sacred Heart, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Search, Secret, Self, Selfless, Simple, Suffice, Sympathy, Tall, Tight, Token, True, Truth, Unnatural, Want, Youth
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Resurrection (The Monster’s Lament)
Halloween Poem #10: Resurrection (The Monster’s Lament) by Michael Romani I cannot speak in denial Though my very soul is on trial Looking back on all of my days Sometimes unspeakable in my ways There are so many things I … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Alone, Anew, Beauty, Believe, Bound, Broken, Cast, Conceive, Cost, Cruell, Darkness, Day, Deniall, Depllorable, Detail, Devil, Different, Done, Duty, Find, Forget, Frail, Harshness, Hell, Home, Honor, Human Being, Imperfect, Inside, Lament, Lost, Love, Man, Meaning, Monster, Never, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pride, Rage, Regret, Resurrection, Scar, Soul, Spoken, Time, Trial, Turn, Wak, Wander, Ways
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Secret Melody
There is a secret melody that plays in the heart of all who love. Secret Melody by Michael Romani A memory caught in a secret song Swell of timbre that seems to strong Music has its way with those Whose … Continue reading
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Tagged Apart, Beating, Day, Deep, Destiny, Dream, Ear, Faith, Family, Follow, Forever, Heart, History, Know, Legacy, Lesson, Life, Love, Melancholy, Melody, Memory, Mind, Music, Mystery, Near, Pain, Photograph, Play, Plaza, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Regret, Secret, Sing, Smile, Song, Sun, Teach, Timbre, Treasure, Whisper, You
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