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So Much Sky
Ever been out in the middle of wilderness and realized the vastness of the universe and the smallness of humanity? So Much Sky by Michael Doyle So much sky That a person might get lost In a freedom one cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Brilliance, Buy, Compromise, Cost, Destiny, Empty, Fear, Freedom, Gold, Hidden, Humanity, Infamous, Journey, Lost, Overflown, Overgrown, Perplex, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Promise, Quicksand, Reconnaissance, River, Sky, Small, Universe, Vanity, Vast, Verity, Wilderness
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Leaving Yesterdays Behind
What matters profit if it has cost your soul? Leaving Yesterdays Behind by Michael Doyle What it is that seems fit Is often enough a matter Devoted entirely to profit All other arguments shatter The implication is clear That neither … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Argument, Behind, Blame, Call, Capable, Convince, Cost, Cut Quick, Depth, Devote, Empty, Fence, Fit, Full Pocket, Implication, Impossible, Indication, Inevitable, Insanity, Leave, Lost, Love of Money, Made, Matter, Mend, Mind, Mistake, Money, Morality, Mutual, Name, Near, Notoriety, Obstacle, Payment, Photograph, Pirate, Place At the Table, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Purchase, Quality, Reason, Sail, Scratch, Secret Garden, Shade, Shame, Shatter, Soul, Surface, Tend, Vanity, Vindication, Yesterday
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Rules of the Beast I
A sort of start at a poetic retelling of the classic Dracula tale: Rules of the Beast I by Michael Romani As the approach is made to castle There is fear amongst its vassals A crucifix is given in protection … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bats, Beast, Blood, Castle, Chill, Choice, Circumspect, Compare, Contradiction, Count, Creaks, Crucifix, Death, Destination, Dracula, Drop, Embrace, Fear, Groans, heartbeat, Heaven, Home, Humanity, Jonathan Harker, Knock, Known, Labyrinth, Learn, Life, Lives, Lock, Love, Maze, Mirror, Mistake, Numb, Oblige, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Prison, Protect, Pulse, Question, Rules, Shadow, Shown, Snare, Solace, Soul, Startle, Step, Stumble, Turn, Vanity, Vassal, Veins, Voice, Window
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Vision Strikes Its Pose
Always insight be it on stage or on screen, there’s a lot that goes into being a costume designer, right? Vision Strikes Its Pose by Michael Romani To design, to tell a story A costume in all its glory Accents … Continue reading
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Tagged Accent, Actor, Audience, Brilliance, Choice, Chose, Color, Costume, Costume Design, Creation, Detection, Dream, Fabric, Flow, Fluidity, Glory, Heart, Humanity, Illuminate, Imagination, Inventory, Know, Larger Than Life, Laundry, Life, Movie, Need, Painter, Perception, Performing Arts, Photograph, Playwright, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Pose, Read, Reflection, Screen, Script, See, Seen, Stage, Story, Strike, Subtle, Texture, Theater, Vanity, Vision, Wardrobe, Worn
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Blood On Our Hands
Halloween poem #2 – mankind has the worse monsters and is seldom as kind as we might be if only we could. Blood On Our Hands by Michael Romani Our brutalities serve to shape us Though we wish to deny … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Asylum, Atrocity, Belief, Better, Blood, Brother, Brutality, Certain, Creature of the Night, Cure, Dawn, Deny, Dignity, Doctor, Fail, Fatal, Forget, Forgivver, God, Halloween, Hands, Heavy, Heoes, Humane, Humanity, Killers, Laugh, Live, Memory, Monster, Night, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push, Remake, Right, River, Seen, Shadow, Shape, Sister, Sleep, Stir, Toll, Unafraid, Vanity, Watch
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Boy Genius
Inspired by and dedicated to the vexatious life of Erik Satie. Boy Genius by Michael Romani Reeling out of control Unable to console The boy genius fights Taking confront in his nights Sideways bit of swagger Sliced into like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Antagonistic, Blow By Blow, Boy, Capacity, Circumscribed, Confront, Connect, Console, Contrl, Correct, Cruelty, Dignity, Dream, Drink, Ego, Empathy, Erik Satie, Fail, Fame, Fight, Genius, Glory, Harrow, Human, Love, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sanity, Serenity, Shame, Shameless, Show, Slice, Steps, Story, Superior, Swagger, Think, Vanity, Wordless
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Nuzzle and Nudge
Father’s Day is approaching. Due to lack of funds, I’ve not seen the girls but twice since June 10 of last year. We won’t even really get into the 73 times that the Court ordered telephonic visitation has been interfered … Continue reading
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Tagged Altar, Calvary, Children, Chocolate, Comfort, Cradle, Daughters, Embrace, Fairy Dust, Falter, Father's Day, Fort, God, Humanity, Humility, Imagination, Interstellar Sailor, Love, Moments, Moonbeam, Nudge, Nuzzle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redeem, Sacrifice, Serve, Sincre, Space, Time, Tomorrow, Transform, Vanity
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Finding Our Way Home
There’s no place like home – there before the hearth’s warmth, knowing where we truly belong. There is no deeper or richer feeling than to feel love for love’s sake than to love someone even deeper than that. Finding Our … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Agonize, Alientation, Analyze, Antagnozie, Choice, Compromise, Consequence, Dark, Day, Deliver, Demonize, Destination, Devote, Equality, Fate, Find, Forgiver, God Given Right, Ground, Happiness, Heart, Her sdie, Home, Humanity, Humor, Lady, Laughing Eyes, Light, My Place, Our, Patronize, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rationalize, Rumor, Salvation, Struggle, Vanity, Veracity, Walk, Willing
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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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The Truth of the Present
It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World
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