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Tender Conspiracy
Thanksgiving, St. Nicholas Day, Christmas, New Year’s Eve… all of these times bring our families together don’t they? Tender Conspiracy by Michael Romani Joined together in tender conspiracy These are the truths found in family Little secrets and jokes that … Continue reading →
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Tagged Cheer, Conspiracy, Days, Dear, Double Take, Dragons, Eyes, Family, Firecrackers, Ghosts, Grandma, Happy, Heartache, Jokes, Life, Light, Lotto, Memory, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pride, Rumble, Secrets, Slay, Smile, Stories, Sugar Coat, Sunset, Tender, Tight Lipped, Treasure, Year
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What makes a writer write? Even When Fractured Endlessly by Michael Romani Motifs of wilderness and isolation Provide the origin’s ragged narration These are the stories that keep company Even when fractured endlessly Repapered randomness may seem inane But in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Drunkard, Explanation, Fool, Fracture, Impression, Intervention, Irony, Isolation, Motif, Narration, Overlap, Poem, Poetry, Random, Sanity, Stories, Urge, Wilderness, Writers, Writing
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Portion Control
Stuffing my face at yet another late night dinner, I started thinking just now about portion control… Portion Control by Michael Romani The city we live in Is full of bustle and vim It’s every corner offer toxicity With stories … Continue reading →
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Tagged City, Control, Conversation, Dalliance, Distractions, Fit, Kiss, Moments, Morsel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Portion, Puzzle Piece, Stories, Sweet Love
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Na/GloPoWriMo 9: In the Big of the Small
The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 9 poetry challenge, the goal is to write a poem that either joins the big with the small or the small with the big. I propose to do both using the bringing of comic books to the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Big Screen, CGI, Comic Books, Golden Age, Graphic Novels, Heoes, In the Big of the Small, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Stories, Video Games, Zeroes
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Thought For the Day: Stories Read and/or Told Alter Our Worlds
“Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” – Ben Okri, poet and novelist (b. 15 Mar 1959)
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Tagged Alter, Ben Okri, Caution, Read, Stories, Subconcious, Thought For the Day, Told, World
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: 1001 Nights – The Story Told By the Tailor
When I was a child, my mother had taught me how to read even before I went to kindergarten. She did so through telling my sister and I stories from a variety of sources and embarrassingly perhaps by allowing me … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arab, Couplets, Havard Classics, Indian, One Thousand and One Nights, Pahlavi, Persian, Quatrains, Scheherazade, Shahryar, Stories, The Arabian Nights
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 