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Breathe the Legacy
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day Four challenge is to write a sad poem. That’s easy enough to do this time around. Someone who is increasingly important to me beyond nearly all measure of my meager words recently lost someone. I can … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Born, Brave, Breathe, Dare, Deep, Defense, Family, Footstep, Force, Fragrant, Heart, History, Hurt, Legacy, Liberty, Life, Live, Lost, Lost Child, Love, Modern World, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Right, Sad, Show, Soul, Speak Well, Steep, Step, Tender, Tough, Truth, Vancouver, Win, Woman
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Knowable By All Persons
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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Tagged Aid, Art, Counsel, First Prinicples, Government, Honest, Legible, Pursue, Right, Thomas Jefferson, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Choice Isn’t Left Or Right; It’s Up Or Down
“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down.” – Ronald Reagan My response to Bernie … Continue reading
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Tagged Down, Dream, I, Individual Freedom, Left, Order, Right, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Told, Totalitarianism, Up, You
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Couple of Couplets To Get It Right
Poem A Day #3 is the rhyming couplet form. From Wikipedia: “A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Meets Girl, Caught, Cleave, Close, Couplet, Dance, Danger, Day, Found, Good, Happiness, Joy, Leap, Life, Light, Lost Time, Lovers, Meter, Moon, Night, Oblivioius, One, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poem A Day #3, Poetry, Ran, Regret, Rhyme, Right, Romeo and Juliet, Smile, Stage, Stranger, Swirl, Tight, Time, Together, Two, Whirl, World
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Heartbreaks Forgiven
I wrote this poem just now. Please forgive the typos. It’s sort of a word flow thing…. Heartbreaks Forgiven by Michael Romani I watched you kill your child today I held your hand and did not look away You told … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Answer, Beautiful, Call, Child, Christian, Conspiracy, Cry, Daughter, Despite, Different, Fogive, Forgive, Forsake, Forty Years, Found, God's Plan, Goodbye, Grateful, Halo, Hand, Hard, Heartbreak, Heathen, Hell, Horrible, Hours, Hug, Hurt, Laugh, Left, Life, Live, Looking Out, Love, Man, Mistake, Morning Light, Patience, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Project, Promise, Reason, Regret, Remember, Right, Risk, Satan, Season, Secret, Shake, Shoe, Silent, Smile, Soul, Sparkle, Stay, Taught, Tears, Time, Tonight, Watch, Wild Man, Years, You, Young, Your Way
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First Principles: Justice, Humanity and Christianity Demand the End of All Slavery
“Justice and humanity require it [the end of slavery] – Christianity commands it. Let every benevolent . . . pray for the glorious period when the last slave who fights for freedom shall be restored to the possession of that … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, End, First Principles, Freedom, Humanity, Justice, Noah Webster, Pray, Right, Slavery
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You Can’t Own (A Child of God)
As we stand perched on the edge of a new month, this poem is dedicated to the brave souls who fought together as brothers and sisters in Jones County, Mississippi, dedicated to the proposition that each person is equal before … Continue reading
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Tagged Amen, Brave, Child of God, Complicit, Die, Duplicity, Echo, Equal Before God, Fight, Free, Freedom, God, Head, Heart, History, Jones County, Legacy, Legend, Liberty, Light, Linger, Living History, Mississippi, Odd, Own, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Right, Sacred, Simple, Soul, Tear, Trust, Truth, Try, Twenty First Century
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Samson (XI)
Continuing in a series of poems depicting the story of Samson and Delilah as told in the Book of Judges: Samson (XI) by Michael Romani Staying their course, steady to fight For their land and what is right Even if … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Bind, Book of Judges, Brute, Care, Consequence, Correction, Death, Delilah, Direction, Enemy, Extraordinary, Fail, Feign, Forsake, God, Hebrew, Jew, Lead, Legacy, Lovers, Noble, Philistine, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prince, Promised Land, Right, Romance, Samson, Servant, Snare, Stern, Surrender, Weakness, Will, Zion
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Samson (X)
Continuing in the retelling of the story of Samson and Delilah as told in The Book of Judges: Samson (X) by Michael Romani X It is as it must That God’s wrath is just To watch his people die Or leave … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Judges, Devotion, Dignity, Envy, False Choice, God, Injury, Living God, Lord, Nation, Negotiate, Night, Philistine, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pure, Right, Samson and Delilah, Shame, Sorrow, Starve, Storm, Tomorrow, Truth, Witness, Wonder, Wrath, Wrong, Zion
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