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Cultivating Kindness I
When life gets down to the fundamentals, isn’t kindness what we most need? Like so many say, be that change. Cultivating Kindness I by Michael Romani In this world, filled with sin And perhaps too much blindness One clarion thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Biblical, Blind, Christ, Clarion, Compassion, Connection, Cultivate, Depend, Easy Going, Eyes, Fogiving, Follow, Friend, Generous, Gentle, Harshness, Hear, Holy Spirit, Indwell, Kindness, Light, Living, One Another, Outflow, Part, Path, Patient, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Remember, Selfish, Service, Sin, Surprise, Tender, Thought, True, True Friend, Warm Heart, World
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Thoughts On Arlington (Memorial Day 2019)
America has never been so seemingly divided since our Civil War. Thoughts On Arlington by Michael Romani With so many jokes out to rewrite history It really isn’t much of a mystery That our nation barely stands divided With too … Continue reading
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Tagged 1865, All, America, Appomattox, Arliington, Blood, Brother, Cemetery, Civil War, Divided, Eternal Flame, Fall, First Principles, Freedom, George Washington, God's Creation, Greatness, Heroes, Home, Honor, Lesson Learned, Memorial Day 2019, Nation, No Greater Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revisionist History, Rite, Robert E Lee, Sister, Slaughter, Thought, Undivided, War, We The People, Wound
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First Principles: Matters of Belief Are Between A Person’s Soul and God
“Religion is ‘twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.” – Judith Sargent Murray
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Tagged Bound, Control, First Principles, God, Judith Sargent Murray, Religion, Sage, Saint, Soul, Thought
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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
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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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A Vancouverite Current
The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth
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A Pillow’s Talk of Things
The ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo is based on the lists found in Sei Shonagon’ s The Pillow Talk. As the hour has grown later than I had hoped and only just recently finished a show along with a late dinner and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Attention, Attitude, Beast, Beloved, Best, Best Intention, Breeze, Bring, Busy Day, Care, Chase, Chase Circles, Cloud, Confide, Confusion, Conquer, Cry, Delight, Depression, Despise, Difference, Diffidence, Enchantment, Eye to Eye, Face, Fascination, Find, Fruits, Game, God's Daughter, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heart, Heart Sing, Hope, Hour, Imagination, Impression, Intention, Keep, Knowledge, Known, Lady Love, Last, Late, Laughter, Lifetimes, Love, Memory, Mesmerize, Mind, Moon, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Power, Precious, Prove, Pure, Questions, Raindrop, Reason Why, Rendition, Respect, Rule, Save, Sei Shonagon, Share, She, Sigh, Smile, Solitary Power, Soul, Sparkle, Spell Caster, Tantalize, Tear, Tears, Test, The Pillow Talk, Thought, Times, Tree House, Trouble, Upset, Voice, Vow, Way, Word, Words
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Clockwork Integration
Lately, I have been thinking a little on the healing processes. Combined with modern age philosophy, it’s giving me pause and cause to think. Clockwork Integration by Michael Romani A little boy unfairly afflicted Who could have really predicted That … Continue reading
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Tagged Afflction, Anachronistic, Appeal, Belief, Biology, Broke, Child, Clockwork, Commotion, Compassion, Convention, Cure, Emancipation, Emotion, Free, Harmony, Health, Heart, Holistic, Hug, Hurt, Innocent, Integrate, Integration, Intelligent, Intention, Laugh, Law, Love, Mass, Matter, Mechanistic, Mind, Mind Body, Miracle, Modality, Model, Molecule, Open Hand, Peace, Pendulum, Perception, Percision, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predict, Primacy, Quantum, Reconnective Healing, Reduce, Relief, Result, Score, Separation, Smile, Soul, Spirit, Suffer, Thought, Unity
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The Very Best of Something
Out there in the Hundred Acre Woods, there are a lot of tales to be told. Some happy and filled with joy. Some are bittersweet such as the feelings that come at childhood’s end… The Very Best of Something by … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Foot, Best of Me, Bittersweet, Bouncy, Childhood, Childhood's End, Complete, Cry, Daydream, Doing Nothing, Dream, End, Enthusiasm, Family, Family of Choice, Favorite Place, Friend, Gone, Good, Goodbye, Heart, Hello, Hundred Acre Woods, Imaginary, Life, Me and You, Memory, Montage of Images, Nowhere, Optimism, Photograph, Picnic, Poem, Poetry, Pot Full of Honey, Real, Sendoff, Share, Smile, So Long, Something, Sweet, Tackle Life Head On, Talk, Those, Thought, Trouncy, Two, Very Best, Yesteryear
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Fixed Focus
Based in part on 1 John 3: Fixed Focus by Michael Romani Having learned that I cannot serve More than the one that I deserve Defining the character of Christianity Far exceeds any pride or vanity It is the four … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Agape, Bible, Blind, Book of John, Brotherly Love, Character, Cheap, Christian, Close, Close To the Heart, Command, Define, Deserve, Divine Power, Do Right, Doubt, Fix, Focus, Give, God, God's Eyes, Hand, Hour, Love, Love Each Other, Mystic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Pride, Relevance, Sacrifice, Sanctity, Satisfy, Scripture, Serve, Signaled Virtue, Significance, Simple, Thought, Truth, Unkind, Vain, Whirlpool
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