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Always Thankful
A poem of gratitude #27: Always Thankful by Michael Romani You pour another drink Taking time to think Seems we all pay our dues Too often singing the blues Dark side, downside Talking about wounded pride Staring at the shadow … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Appreciation, Beautiful, Blessed, Blind, Blues, Color, Deepness, Depth, Downside, Dream, Drink, Dues, Feel, Find, Graceful, Gratitude, Haze, Heart, Invitation, Know, Layer, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push, Reaize, Real, Run, Scared, Shadow Play, Shove, Soul, Sweet, Thankful, Think, Time, Wounded Pride
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Thankful For God’s Love and Mercy
Based in part on 1st Samuel: Thankful For God’s Love and Mercy by Michael Romani Giving thanks for all at all times Expressed in my thousand rhymes Always seeking wisdom in my prayers Walking this world without false airs Surely … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st Samuel, Adoration, Air, Better, Blessed, Brave, Children of God, Conquer, Constant, Courage, Cross, Depth, Dignity, Divinity, Embrace, Every Day, Face, Faith, Find, Forgiven, Forward, Given, God, Goodness, Gratitude, Heaven, Hesitate, Holy, House, Humanity, Humility, Inventory, Lord, Love, Mercy, Ministry, Offer, Pause, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prevail, Problems, Pure, Purity, Puzzle, Rhyme, Sequence, Show, Sin, Small, Song, Soul, Spirit, Steadfast, Step, Still, Strength, Tale, Teach, Thanks, Time, Together, Toward, Walk, Way, Ways, Win, Wisdom, Wonder, Wrongs
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Thankful For That Yellow Brick Road
A poem of gratitude # 23 for the songs of my life that feel deeply in my heart: Thankful For That Yellow Brick Road by Michael Romani A pre-winter’s chill is felt to the bone As I sit here thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Belong, Castaway, Celebrity, Change, Chill, Chord, Dogs of Society, Drift, Echo, Eyes, Flow, Gratitude, Heart, Howl, Humble, Influence, Integrity, Keys, Land, Live, Lyric, Melody, Memory, Moment, Notes, Passage, Pet Sounds, Photograph, Please, Pockets, Poem, Poetry, Record, Sense, Song, Soul, Stumble, Thankful, Truth, When, Wonder, Yellow Brick Road, Youth
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Thankful In Collaboration
Thinking on art and design, a poem of gratitude for its immersive collaboration. A poem in gratitude #21: Thankful In Collaboration by Michael Romani Designs of light In abstraction Just might Be created in collaboration Subtle changes Create the color … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Ah-Ha, Art, Blue, Breadth, Breath, Change, Collaboration, Color, Create, Design, Drawn, Embrace, Experience, Exude, Feeling, Foundation, Gratitude, Heart, Immersive, Latitude, Light, Link, Mood, Observer, Photograph, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Rearrange, Red, Reeling, Relax, Room, Saturation, Soul, Space, Step, Thankful, Wake, Wow, Yellow
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The Rock
A poem of gratitude #19: The Rock by Michael Romani Steadfast in the rock that is my messiah Sadly, I still fall victim to my worse desires Like Peter, I know that I would have lied If I falsely stated, … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Blame, Blasphemy, Broken, Chill, Confidence, Deny, Depth, Desire, Destination, Doubt, Fade, Faith, Garden of Gethsemane, Grace, Gratitude, Hesitation, Kingdom, Lie, Lord, Men, Messiah, Moment, Moon, Obedience, Olive, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rock, Sacrifcice, Self, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Soul, Steadfast, Stray, Strength, Suffice, Temptation, Weak, Wholeness, Wisdom
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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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