Bond of Carbon

Posted on August 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There  in the center of all life is that bit of stardust that we know as carbon.  From it all that is considered organic is formed.

Tristan & Isolde - Hands Across the Web

Bond of Carbon
by Michael Romani

Carbon ash returns to source
By cremation turns to stardust, of course
In this carbon we find all connection
That is to be found in our inspection

Like the Lego blocks of the universe
It reaches out to reach in and then reverse
Snapped together any way that you might choose
Carbon is the element that no life can refuse

The structure of carbon in all of its array
Is responsible for the formation of DNA
A tiny tangle of threaded complexity
It's responsible for life's consistency

There in the heart of every living cell
Is the carbon that brings life in grand detail
There just waiting to be known and detected
Is the bubble of life that must be protected

(c)  August 20, 2019  Michael Romani
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First Principles: Our Motives To Act In Life Should Be the Relief of the Distressed; the Detection of Frauds; the Defeat of Oppression; and the Diffusion of Happiness

Posted on August 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.” – Nathanael Greene

 

 

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Thought For the Day: I’d Rather See A Sermon Than To Hear One Any Day

Posted on August 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.” – Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959)

 

 

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Like Brothers

Posted on August 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The things done in the military grows most men’s units in whatever force into something like family.  Most of us ended fighting for our brothers and sisters more than ideals or nations.  Some of us carry the memories of our fallen brothers with us.

Brothers In Arms - Bended Knee For Those Still Missing II

Like Brothers
by Michael Romani

It's the price we pay
For doing what we do
I remember having had
Saying this to you

Doing what was needed
As it needed to be done
Caution was seldom heeded
In the battles to be won

Forever faithful was your cry
Mine was quieter you said
Danger was faced with a sigh
No use carrying that weight in our heads

You and I, we went the distance
Having each other's backs naturally
We pushed past the resistance
Some took bets we'd end up in a movie

That is - until the day
You didn't get back up again
You'd have laughed, me having nothing to say
No smile; no joke; just tears for my friend

All these years rolled out
And it's looking like it's my time
I'm having less and less doubt
Giving up you'd say is a crime

So there it is and I don't
Forever faithful has a nice ring to it
Giving up is something I never do and I won't
I have more miles to take and need to do it

Tossed back a beer in your memory
Twin sons of different races and mothers
You had become like family
We'd count on one another like brothers

I got to live a lot longer
Who could have believed those odds
You were always the stronger
As I came to believe in God

And so I toss back another beer
For the man who didn't make it back
And so I shed one more tear
For my brother who didn't make it back

(c) August 19, 2019  Michael Romani
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Memorial Day 2014 - Iraqi War Memorial POW-MIA

 

 

 

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Thought For the Day: If You Live To Be A Hundred, I Want To Live To Be A Hundred Minus One Day

Posted on August 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne

 

 

 

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First Principles: When the Government Violates the People’s Rights, Insurrection Is the Most Sacred of Rights and Most Indispensable of Duties

Posted on August 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.” – Marquis de Lafayette

 

 

 

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Ten Generations Lesson

Posted on August 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

This poem is based in part on Genesis 6:5-14 and the lessons derived from the life of Noah and the ten generation curse that walked us from the Garden of Eden to the great flood.

Burn2 Caravansary - Fairytale Burn Ark

Ten Generations Lesson
by Michael Romani

The world God created is awesome
There in the Garden of Eden it blossomed
But with ten generations, we too took His creation
Turning it into evil's desecration 

Ten generations; four hundred years
Mankind fell from favor causing God's tears
Grieved in His heart beyond mere reprimand
God decided to blot mankind from the land

Noah was found a righteous man and blameless
I wish I could say the same but have been shameless
Turning in fear not trust I have walked with sin
And must find my way back to God's favor again

Feeling certain that I should have listened well
Trusting in His ways and heeding the holy tales
If I had done so before I would have trusted in his ways
And instead of feeling cursed be blessed through my days

I need to return to the ways of sharp obedience
Finding my reliance on God's blessed providence
Pulling myself out of darkness back into light
And that wrongs that I've done, I wish to make right

To my best, I choose to live pure and walk Holy
That these be the things by which people know me
With a new beginning and promise, I close the door
Living the covenant and seeking no more

I look around at how the wickedness is in increase
While for myself, I pray and seek sin's decrease
I find myself motivated in thinking walking destiny
That is how I'll live in bringing a close to my journey

(c) August 18, 2019  Michael Romani
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Dream Chasers -Yasum Holy Cross

 

 

 

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First Principles: Virtue, Morality and Religion Are the Armor That Renders Us Invincible

Posted on August 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.” – Patrick Henry

 

 

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Thought For the Day: Where There is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love

Posted on August 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – Francis of Assisi

 

 

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Further Reaches

Posted on August 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s magic in the stardust that goes beyond the physical world we live in.  This is a bit half inspired by a tale of two worlds and of course blended with thoughts about my recent past…

Fantasy Faire 2019 - Stars that Meet the Eye

Further Reaches
by Michael Romani

Looking up into the furthest reaches
Seen from the shores of moonlit beaches
It makes me feel more human
When I take the moment and can
Gaze up into the twinkle of stars
Into the naked night and away from lights and bars
Wondering if anyone up there
Or, anywhere far or near
Looks down toward me or our planet
A billion light years away almost demands it

There are things that exceed science
And play majestically on my conscience
In that time to time that I think on it
Or on other things as I see fit
My mind always swirling with questions
Your feelings leading you to hesitations
And while I see the world as our played field
You're almost as certain you shouldn't yield
I pity sometimes that you put up with me
With all of my ponderings of philosophy

Some are always pushing further than they should
And I am not certain that that isn't good
Because it is from pushing that too far
That we get from where we were to where we are
As each dream has woke and uncurled
Time wasters like me wave our flags unfurled
Snowdrop kisses are the cost of the seen
There inside the pursuit of our dreams
Turned from cheek to meet desirous lips
Grazed upon softly with our fingertips

Enchanted as we are by our stormhold's chains
We join life's chorus of twisted refrains
It's hard to define the ways of desire
That warm our hearts with their fire
Sometimes it seems words only cause harm
No matter how well meant or how they charm
And so it is that I simply fall silent
Seemingly looking toward the distance so vigilant
Knowing that my true intentions as they were meant
Were to keep true the love that I felt
Before your passion burned so bright it caused...
      … the stars to melt....

(c) August 17, 2019  Michael Romani
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Mimmo - Sometimes Seems A Long Way Back To the Me I Used To Be

 

 

 

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