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Retribution For Frailty
Sadists like to kick people when they’re down. Turn to multiple forums from Facebook to otherwise and you see people constantly tearing at each other and doing this for the good of the other. Interesting how we convince ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Broken, Brutality, Cave, Comfort, Community, Corrupt, Cruelty, Damage Done, Dare, Desire, Desparation, Down, Eyes, Fester, Frailty, Good, Humilation, Kick, Know, Lie, Menace, Pain, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Punish, Refuse, Repressed, Retribution, Sadist, Savage, Save, Sting, Suffer, Torture, Truth, Vain, Vengeance, Vulnerable
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Pig Faced Penelope
Inspired by a movie shared with someone very special to me as a movie that is very special to her… Pig Faced Penelope by Michael Romani A slap on the face to high society Trapped on trappings of notoriety The … Continue reading
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Tagged Audacity, Care, City, Distraction, Embrace, Escape, Expose, Faces, False, First Edition, Hate, High Society, Indignity, Integrity, Life, Lights, Missed Point, Night, Notoriety, Penelope, Photograph, Pig Faced, Plastic Veneer, Playroom, Poem, Poetry, Pretty, Priceless, Run, Secret, Self-Love, Shallow, Shame, Slap, Surface, Tale, Test, Trap, Truth, Vain, Youth
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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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Samson VIII
Continuing in an effort to put a version of the Samson and Delilah story from the Book of Judges into verse, I present Part VIII. Perhaps, I should have made this shorter? Samson (VIII) by Michael Romani Amidst un-princely questions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Adversary, Appease, Beg, Blame, Book of Judges, Broken, Burn, Consequence, Contest, Daughter, Design, Desire, Dishonor, Driven, Embrace, Enemies, Enemy, Enmity, Family, Fire, Flee, Folly, Forgiven, Gain, God's People, God's Will, Good, Heresy, History, Impure, Jew, King, Knees, Lion, Loss, Love, Nazarite, Peace, Persevere, Philistine, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Pride, Providence, Purity, Rage, Riddle, Samson and Delilah, Sanctuary, Seek, Shame, Sign, Steeple, Strife, Taran, Tears, Tunic, Two Peoples, Vain, Vow, Wager, Wisdom, Wolf, Wood, Worship, Wrath, Zion
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A Gentle Heart At Christmas
The message of Christmas is one that is amply brought to mind by the life lived by the Nikolas who became a bishop and the touted as saint watched the stories of his saintly life turn into the legendary Santa … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Blind, Broken Heart, Candy Store, Christmas, Church, Dream, Eyes, Family, Forgive, Form, Give, God's Love, Hear, Heart, Jeus, Lights, Love, Lullaby, Magic, Mass, Mercy, Midnight Moon, Moments, Photorgraph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Priest, See, Shelter, Snow, Transform, Truth, Vain, Vanity, Warm
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Thought For the Day: The Mountains of Truth Are Never Climbed In Vain
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Climb, Friedrich W Nietzche, Higher, Increase, Mountains, Strength, Thought For the Day, Tomorrow, Truth, Vain
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Stitch In Time (Bride of Frankenstein)
A different sort of look at an old story. Stitch In Time (Bride of Frankenstein) by Michael Romani The things we have as we venture Living life as a grand adventure Sometimes it’s more than pride can take When it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bride of Frankenstein, Challenges, Compromise, Constrain, Corset, Cruelty, Darkness, Death's Kiss, Deception, Decisions, Dragons, Grand Adventure, Journey, Light, Losing Game, Mend, Pain, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Pride, Slay, Smile, Steps, Stitch, Subterfuge, Surprise, Time, Torture, Vain, Venture, Whisper
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First Principles: When the Ambitious Come To Power, Only True Patriots Can Save Our Nation
“If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams, revolutionary (27 Sep 1722-1803) … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiring, First Principles, Government, Patriots, Prevent, Ruin, Samuel Adams, Time, Vain
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Thought For the Day: The Finest Words Are In Vain If Not Understood
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.” – Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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Tagged Anatole France, Fine Words, Sounds, Understand, Vain
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