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Just A Little Broken
Based in part on… life…. and Psalm 34:18: Just A Little Broken by Michael Romani Down at the church, I heard it spoken That all of us are just a little broken You know, I couldn’t deny it I wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Book of Psalm, Born Again, Broke, Buy It, Chruch, Contraction, Contrite, Crush, Cure, Dark, David, Deny, Despair, Destruction, Disrepair, Doubt, Fear, Habit, Hear, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Lord, Neglect, Pastor, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Pure, Pursue, Reject, Save, Scare, Self Will, Sense, Separation, Sin, Sold Out, Spoke, Symptoms, Thrill, Try, Vanity, Wanton, Wonder, World
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A Family
There is family by biology. Then there is family by choice. In many instances who is to say which is the deepest tie. Biology and kinship are interesting in their perspectives, aren’t they? A Family by Michael Romani When life … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Build, Build Again, Burn, Celebrate, Choice, Deep, Dig, Dignity, Dreams, Enough, Family, Humanity, Inch, Large, Live, Love, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Raging Fire, Seems, Tear Down, Tough, Turn, Vanity, Win
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Caged In Differences
Another poem inspired by Mowgli came about as Mowgli seeks to reintegrate into the man village. It seems that many of us cage ourselves by definition dwelling on the things that separate us rather than sharing in the commonalities. None … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Believe, Beware, Cage, Closed, Curosity, Dare, Degrees of Separation, Deny, Desperation, Devotion, Difference, Emotion, Fear, Forget, God, Hate, Learn, Lost, Love, Mowgli, Nothing, One Name, Pages, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Reverence, Sate, Scare, Tear, Tomorrow, Vanity, Village, Wisdom
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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The Practice of Kindness
Based in part on the Gospel according to Luke: The Practice of Kindness by Michael Romani In this world of madness Inundated with sadness What happened to kindness In this world of blindness A moment’s thought for others All of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blind, Cheek, Covenant, Doubt, Find, Forgive, Frailty, Gifts, God, God's Whisper, Good, Gospel, Grace, Heal, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Kindness, Lose, Love One Another, Loyal, Luke, Madness, Other-Centered, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praxis, Protect, Reliable, Sad, Servants, Serve, Stable, Steadfast, Sword, Tender Mercy, Turn, Vanity, Word
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First Principles: Pride Is Among The Hardest of Our Passions To Subdue
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Contempt, First Principles, Natural Passion, Pride, Subdue, Vanity
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A Spilling of Dreams
Sometimes dreams, especially dreams of children and other deeply imaginative persons spill over into something so vivid that it’s hard to believe these are not true. This is a play on that idea. A Spilling of Dreams by Michael Romani … Continue reading
Daily Prompt – Marine
Looking back, a lifetime ago or so it now seems One of the things that was foremost in my dreams Was the thought of growing up and becoming someone Like Jacques Cousteau, only an American one I would study and … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Daily Prompt, Destruction, Dreams, Humanity, Instruction, Jacquest Cousteau, Lifetime, Marine, Marine Conservation, Ocean, Reply, Seagulls, Shore, Someone, Vanity
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Daily Prompt – Iron
The whispered rumor says the ways of humanity Rest on gold, silver, iron and a heated vanity Doing onto others has become the golden rule Serving takes strength, not the rage of fools This sense of sacred teases in its … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Appellation, Cain, Commision, Daily Prompt, Darwin, Goats, Gold, Humanity, Insanity, Iron, Mankind, Might Makes Right, Misguided, Nations, Omission, Path, Rage, Rumor, Service, Silver, Tarnish, Vanity, Whisper
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