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An Educated Mind Cannot Be Enslaved
“What is the one thing [slaves] were not allowed to do?” Learn to read. Learn to write. The punishment would have been severe for that. And the reason for that is simple: It’s because an educated mind cannot be enslaved.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Candace Owens, Cannot Be Ensaved, Educated Mind, Learn, Martin Luther King Jr., Punishment, Read, Reason, Severe, Simple, Slaves, Thought For the Day, Write
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First Principles: The World’s Frowns Are Less Dangerous Than Its Smiles and Flatteries
“The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.” – Phillis Wheatley The world is filled with those who … Continue reading
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Tagged Danger, Difficult, First Principles, Flattery, Frown, Path, Phillis Wheatley, Schoolmaster, Severe, Smile, Task, Wisdom, World
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Like Dominoes Falling
On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abyss, Anger, Behind, Brave, Brilliance, Brother, Carry, Close, Cry, Curse, Dad, Darkness, Deadly, Death, Die, Domino, Dose, Explode, Fall, Family, Fear, Firefighter 54, Foot, Forget, Friends, Frown, God, God Parents, Grief, Grieve, Hell, Helpless, Implode, Me, Memory, Mom, Next, Pass, Pen to Paper, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Pox, Pray, Prayer, Read, Resilience, Secret, Severe, Sister, Slow, Smile, Stars, Step, Stiff Upper Lip, Talk, There, Thought, Time, Torn, Upside Down, Walk, Weight, Whisper, Wonder, World, Write, Year
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Music Like Ideas
Post-Punk was a thing right? 😉 See if you can tell which band this poem alludes to if you can. Might be fun. Music Like Ideas by Michael Romani Coming from a time when Music sounded like ideas It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Architecture, Chill, Cold, Complex, Disintegration, Echo, Fascination, Feel, Fixation, Folk Music, History, Human Beings, Idea, Ilusion, Incantation, Integration, Joy Division, Laurel, Layer, Life, Matter, Maxim, Moment, Music, Night, Otherness, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modern, Post Punk, Post-Industrial, Primeval, Provocation, Ritual, Searing Light, Severe, Shard, Showbiz, Slip, Space, Sun, Time
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