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Webster’s Calling
At one time, Noah Webster called for a unifying national language of American English. On learning that the English were buying his dictionary, he decided instead it was a better thing to recognize that English is English with more in … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Authority, Civility, Clarity, Destruction, Dictionary, Dilect, Dissertation, Effort, Elite, English, Expressive, Independence, Linguist, National Language, Original Construction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Rules, Standard, Unity, Webster, Words
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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth
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When It’s Gone
My Plan B poem for the poetry month event. It wasn’t necessarily meant to be the poem dealing with the passage of time. But then, as the words flowed, it’s exactly about that isn’t it? When It’s Gone by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, Busy Days, Childish, Chin Up, Concentrate, Conform, Costs, Cut, Daughter, Details, Dream, Drive, Fact, Fitting In, God, Gone, Kill, Leave, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Nothing, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rail, Recall, Reunite, Rites, Rules, School, Shine, Snowfall, Teach, Thrill, Time, Understood, Uniform, War, Wood
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Thought For the Day: Pedantry and Mastery Are Opposite Attitudes Toward Rules
“Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry … To apply a rule with natural ease, … Continue reading
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Tagged George Polya, Mastery, Natural Ease, Pedantry, Rigidity, Rules, Thought For the Day
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Children of the Night
Once on a full moon’s howling… Children of the Night by Michael Romani Shackled in darkness and chains Life batters at us while we refrain Toys of love have rules of their own With all the goodbyes that leave us … Continue reading
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Tagged Batter, Blood, Chains, Children of the Night, Consume, Darkness, Deadly, Doom, Drip, Full Moon, Goodbye, Howl, Hunted, Light, Man, Moon, Music, Offense, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rules, Savage Beast, Shackle, Shadow, Skin, Snarl, Toys of Love, Walking Wounded, Wolf
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Thought For the Day: Always Do Today What You Will Wish You Had Done Tomorrow
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.” – John Lubbock (1834-1913)
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Tagged Actions, Choices, Conduct, Consequences, Doubt, John Lubbock, Rules, Thougth For the Day, Today, Tomorrow
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Willful Blindness
Willful Blindness by Michael Romani Few in words but reliable Is the life found viable Stated simply in the declarative The crucial moments in our narrative These crucial moments of unsparing poetry Slip the strictures in blurred novelty The courage … Continue reading
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Enroll
As the hot fire burned in the woodstove just behind Curly found himself yawning, drifting in his mind To his first days there at the old desert school When Pa had taken him for learning his rules It seemed like … Continue reading
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Tagged Boom, Daily Prompt, Enroll, Fall, Lesson, Rules, School, Sleep, Stroll, Woodstove, Wordpress
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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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Tagged Circumstances, Clarity, Empower, Femininity, Gratitude, Helplessness, Observations, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Princes, Princesses, Rules, Towers, Transparency, Violated
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Thought For the Day: Know the Rules, Stake and Time Limits of the Game
“If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” – Chinese proverb
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Tagged Chinese, Play, Quitting Time, Rules, Stakes, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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