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The Healing Acceptance of Self
A poem of humility and gratitude # 12: The Healing Acceptance of Self by Michael Romani With gratitude, I accept myself No longer looking for answers from a shelf But, seeking instead to find peace from within Behind that wall … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Accept, Alone, Answers, Awake, Blade, Burn, Child, Christ, Cobblestone, Comfort, Compulsion, Confusion, Constant, Cut, Discovery, Divine, Drama, Drown, Dysfunction, Eternity, Fade, Family, God, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Heart, History, Humanity, Humility, Illusion, Love, Magic, Memory, Moment, Night, Pain, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Question, Rain, Reality, Recovery, Sand, Scheme, Self, Self Affliction, Serenity, Shadow, Silence, Sin, Soul, Steps, Tears, Time, Trap, Trauma, Unfinished Business, Victim, Wall, Warm, Within
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Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk
A poem of gratitude #11: Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk by Michael Romani With gratitude I share my words While overhead there are flying birds Puzzling along these thoughts contemporary Wondering how much is too temporary Unlike elephants who read … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Being, Better, Birds, Butterfly, Change, Contemporary, Day To Day, Deep, Define, Elephant, Falling Star, Find, Forward, Friend, Gone, Good, Gratititude, Heart, Hold On, Honest, Learn, Light, Lost, Love, Memory, Miracle, Morning, Nature, Night, Pass, Path, Photograph, Picnic, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Puzzle, Read, Realize, Rearrange, Refine, See, Share, Shine, Soul, Star, Sunrise, Surprise, Temporary, Trunk, Truth, Ways, Whole, Wild, Wonder, Words, World
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Thought For the Day: Valor Is Stability of Courage and the Soul
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne
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Tagged Arms, Courage, Legs, Michel de Montaigne, Soul, Stability, Thought For the Day, Valor
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From the Canyon’s Heart
A poem of gratitude #7. This one is from a sense of gratitude toward the music that came to life from the Laurel Canyon scene. I think that though I leaned toward progressive hard rock in my music, my lyrical … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Pages, Bob Dylan, Canyon, Craft, Echo, Feelings, Folk Rock, Generation, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hollywood, Inspire, Joy, Laurel Canyon, Lyre, Melody, Microphone, Music, Orpheum, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Progressive Hard Rock, Reverberation, Rhyme, Rickenbacker, Santa Monica Mountains, Shift, Song, Sorrow, Soul, Speakeasy, Summer, Sunset, The Byrds, Three Part Harmony, Time, Tomorrow, Tone, Wade, Waft
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Ghosts of Bedlam
Halloween Poem #30 (the blog got messed up yesterday and I had to get it fixed by WordPress help – special thank you to the nice person who helped me!!) Ghosts of Bedlam by Michael Romani Sometimes staying the course … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Bedlam, Behind, Bleed, Brave, Burn, Conspire, Contrive, Course, Cure, Dignity, Discover, Doctor, Dollars, Doom, Dose, Dream, Fire, Ghosts, Gone, Halloween, Hallucinate, Hell, Help, Hope, Impure, Leech, Lie, Life, Mad, Medicate, Medicine, Mind, Muddle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Procedures, Recover, Remorse, Sake, Score, Soul, Strong, Survive, Truth, Wish, Wordpress, Wrong
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The Unflinching Eye
Halloween Poem #29: The Unflinching Eye by Michael Romani We drink a toast among us Because it is what’s done and simply because To the unflinching eye of the intellectual soul It is most gratifying to have death under our … Continue reading
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Tagged Breath, Bruise, Conquer, Conscience, Death, Devil, Done, Dream, Electric, Eye, Halloween, Immortality, Intellect, Life, Light, Lucifer, Mystery, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Posion, Possible, Reanimation, Science, Secret, Sorrow, Soul, Sublime, Time, Toast, Unflinching
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Season of Fear
Halloween Poem #26: Season of Fear by Michael Romani Queue the creepy music For the just the right vibe Dare to step inside And then you decide As an indulgent prattle With wicked stories told Bones shake and start to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alarm, Bones, Bump, Cold, Creepy, Dare, Dark, Decide, Delight, Enough, Fear, Goose Bumps, Halloween, Haunt, Horror, Music, Night, Old, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prattle, Rattle, Scary, Season, Shrill, Sold, Soul, Story, Stuff, Thrill, Time, Vibe, Wicked, Witching Hour, Year
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Given To the Fire
Halloween Poem #24: https://flic.kr/p/s4ZNhr Given To the Fire by Michael Romani Gazing on the precious cross Given to the fire with a toss One soul stood itself alone But, oh so, very lost and alone As if her heart were … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Alone, Atone, Aware, Battle, Begun, Best, Breath, Brutal, Candle, Close, Cross, Curse, Damned, Death, Destination, Dies, Embrace, End, End of Days, Eyes, Face, Fatal, Fire, Friend, Friends, Give, God, Goodbye, Halloween, Heart, Humanity, Immortality, Incarnate, Invoke, Kiss, Know, Life, Light, Love, Night, Offering, Pain, Pale, Peace On Earth, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Protection, Remorse, Run, Salvation, Sin, Soul, Squander, Stone, Suffering, Tear, Today, Vain, Wander, Whisper, Wisdom, Wolf, Wolf of God, Won
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