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In Sacred Witness
In this season of thankfulness and gratitude, poem #2: In Sacred Witness by Michael Romani Then was a time for counting coup But along the way, I grabbed a clue That just maybe we should be less about glory In … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Act, Addict, Aftermath, Back, Begun, Body Bag, Broken, Brutality, Build, Choose, Clue, Co-Create, Commitment, Community, Conflict, Construction, Convince, Coup, Cut, Danger, Destruction, Door, Each, Empower, Fade, Forward, Garden, Global Story, Glory, God's Family, Gratitude, Heal, Hopi, Humility, Immortality, Implication, Inside, Integration, Learn, Legends, Light, Lone Wolf, Lose, Lost, Love, Math, Meant, Nourish, Nurture, Outgrown, Passage, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modernity, Pray, Prepetual, Pth, Right Relationship, Sacred, Security, Separation, Shatter, Stranger, Stumble, Surrender, Survive, Test, Thankfulness, Thrive, Time, Together, Tragedy, Truth, Turn Away, Two Edged Sword, Unity, Victim, Walk, Wall, War, War Paint, Whisper, Win, Witness, Won, World, Youth
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Rose’s Thorn
Halloween Poem #3 Rose’s Thorn by Michael Romani The rose’s thorn bled it’s blood Chosen to drag my soul through the mud Clever thought I in the transparency Lost in its morbid transcendency Condemned to the darkened dust Struggling in … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Blade, Blame, Blood, Blush, Clever, Condemn, Cost, Cruel, Danger, Defile, Drool, Dust, Eyes, Halloween, Lost, Lush, Morbid, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Rose, Shatter, Soul, Still, Stranger, Strong, Struggle, Thorn, Transparent, Tuth, Twist, Unkempt, Vicious, Wheel, World, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Denial, Enough, Feast, Friend, Fullness, Gratitude, Home, House, Life, Meal, Melody Beattie, Order, Stranger, Thought For the Day, Unlock
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Much To Do With Everything
Day 28 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2019… and what’s the goal.. to write a poem about poetry and poets and who is this what is that and does it have any meaning or is it only seeming or.. wait.. that could be … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Friend's Girlfriend, Better, Blowing In the Wind, Brass In Pocket, Casual, Close Exam, Danger, Dust, Employ, Enjoy, Everything, Family, Grew Up, Leather, Long, Much, Music Died, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nights In White Satin, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Pretenders, Rainbow, Simple Rhymes, Song, Space Cowboy, Stranger, Think, Times, Van Gogh, Words
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Scorpion’s Sting
Danger is the stranger that leaves us curious enough to look closer… Scorpion’s Sting by Michael Romani We stain our souls In our house of pain Nothing left to console As we flail against the strain Venom of the scorpion … Continue reading
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Tagged Blunder, Broken, Case, Console, Curious, Danger, Deserve, Embrace, House of Pain, Looking Glass, Observe, Outgun, Outplay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Scorpion, Shatter, Shun, Soul, Spoke, Sting, Strain, Stranger, Trap, Truth of Claws, Vein, Venom, Wonder
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Couple of Couplets To Get It Right
Poem A Day #3 is the rhyming couplet form. From Wikipedia: “A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Meets Girl, Caught, Cleave, Close, Couplet, Dance, Danger, Day, Found, Good, Happiness, Joy, Leap, Life, Light, Lost Time, Lovers, Meter, Moon, Night, Oblivioius, One, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poem A Day #3, Poetry, Ran, Regret, Rhyme, Right, Romeo and Juliet, Smile, Stage, Stranger, Swirl, Tight, Time, Together, Two, Whirl, World
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Broken
It is what it is… Broken by Michael Romani When to myself a danger I’m perhaps better as a stranger Love can be funny that way I have too many dragons to slay Fixed hard to this reality Beginning to … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Believe, Broken, Capable, Child, Conceive, Conception, Connection, Courage, Danger, Deception, Doubt, Dragons, Dream, Eternity, Eventuality, Fly, Free, Greed, Imperfection, Key, Know, Love, Man, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Puzzle, Real, Reality, Reveal, Self-Perception, Sought, Spoken, Stranger, Wisdom, Wish
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Jungled Twist
Another swing at the Jungle Book has been taken. First poem based on that movie is done and posted below. Jungled Twist by Michael Romani There is something in this reality A certain truth about fragility That the jungle twists … Continue reading
Stranger To Myself
Little something picked up on watching a horror show and thinking. I’m often guilty of thinking way too much. 😉 Stranger To Myself by Michael Romani Purest instincts undone A stranger to myself As divorced from me as from anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Adieu, Alone, Annihilation, Cast Down, Crack, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Distant, Doubt, Eternal, Evil, Face, Ghost, Glass, Gone, Goodbye, Hope, Hound of God, Inside, Instinct, Left, Life, Man In the Mirror, Me, Mirror, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Self, Shelf, Strain, Stranger, Time, Whisper
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A Western Noir
Tonight’s short poetry workshop combined the genre’s of cowboy poetry and film noir. I went into it unaware we weren’t supposed to combine both.. soooo.. I did just that anyhow. A Western Noir by Michael Romani I was riding through … Continue reading
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Tagged Black hat, Boot Hil, Cynicism, Danger, Desert, Desperado, Film Noir, High Noon, Horse, Jester, Kiss, Miss Kitty, Murder, Narrative, Optimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Master, Preacher, Samauri, Sheriff, Six Gun, Stranger, Town Drunk, Western
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