ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

First Principles: The True God Exists As Father, Son and Holy Ghost and the Scriptures Are His Revelation

Posted on March 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

” I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory. That the scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. “

– Roger Sherman, the only person to have signed all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and Constitution

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Thought For the Day: The Goal Is To Die Young As Late As Possible

Posted on March 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The goal is to die young as late as possible.“ – George H.W. Bush

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First Principles: Those Happily Employed At Good Work Are the Most Content

Posted on March 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily.” – Benjamin Franklin (1771)

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Looking At You, Looking At Me

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

More of a song than a poem though it’s missing an effective chorus maybe?

Looking At You, Looking At Me
by Michael Romani

I'm  looking at you
You're looking at me
I'm dreaming of you
And what we might be

I'm touching you
You're touching me
I'm thinking that you
Just might be legendary

You make me want to dream
Stitches across our seams
Until like the comfort that you bring
I listen as your body sings

Slow melting into our place
Your words of love, I embrace
Fallen there in your grace
It's your lips, I long to taste

Shadows dancing
In what have become our walls
There in the true romancing
I answer as you call

I tremble at your gentleness
Soul shaken in your elegance
You touch me deep inside
I've a feeling, I'm a long for the ride

My world
Found in your eyes
Talking for hours
We greet the sunrise

I am blessed
To find you still in my arms
I'd have never guessed
The depths of your charms

When you whisper my name
I lay soul struck; vanity slain
Silly charming question in your game
That I am always willingly playing

If I might yet
Find a way to keep your heart
I know that I'll never regret
The finding of our unforgettable  start

(c) March 7, 2019   Michael Romani
All Rights Reserved

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The Truth of the Present

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

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 and gloom less the things spoken by prophet and more an illusory bit of manipulation meant for profit and consolidation of power over humanity…

The Truth of the Present
by Michael Romani

It seems we live in an age of pessimism
Where actually there is great cause for optimism
Piercing the veil of the web's data mine
We find a beaten back starvation line

That we've all but defeated the armada of pestilence
And while I don't want to be seen as lost in innocence
It would seem at this point in our living history
We are prevailing against many a calamity

Even except for the occasional yet merciless bungle
Mankind is seemingly rising above the law of the jungle
Although war has yet to completely disappear
It and its deaths are becoming rarer every year

Sugar has become more deadly than gunpowder
Here in this resurgent moment of mankind's hour
There is a new peace that resonates like a fantasy
While becoming the fulfillment of peace lovers' legacy

Each the other held firmly accountable
This preference for prosperity rules the nuclear capable
Logic bombs bring a new asymmetry 
As the world turns its pages of history

The new paths of possible destruction
Have stripped the nations of motivation
Preferring instead patterns of engaged construction
Chekhov's law seldom reaches its destination

There is little good in guns fired
When it gains too little to be desired
Its become as though God and the Devil conspired
To find peace for a world whose people grew tired

Oppenheimer has undone all the kings of history
With mutual destruction as his legacy
The laws of kingdom and jungle are broken
As the words of true peace are sown and spoken

This gives great cause for believable optimism
Except for an occasional outburst of terrorism
Coca Cola's expansion of empty obesity
Has harmed more than al-Qeada's tragedy

Goat herding troglodytes hide in a shadowed cave
Like flies in the ears of bulls digging their own grave
The conductor's baton in their final orchestration
Bringing more pain than gain in their manipulation

The point remains for a no longer helpless humanity
Whose challenges continue despite our earnest vanity
Yet, an accurate look back finds our possibility
Not the self defeating pessimism of failed complicity

Here in the first footholds of the 21st Century
It is in our hands to manage much of catastrophe
Forever imprinting changes to pages of history
The power and choice for us no longer a mystery

We cannot stay as chicken littles but must be brave
This is our world that we must boldly save
There in truth of God and finding unity as one
These new pages of history have just begun
(c)  March 6, 2019   Michael Romani
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Thought For the Day: Our Children Require Mindful Cultivation To Grow Best

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)

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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Knowable By All Persons

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)

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Thought For the Day: To Give Dominion of Yourself To Another Is A Wicked Thing

Posted on March 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
― Toni Morrison, “A Mercy”

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First Principles: Never Despair In Rekindling The Patriotic Fire

Posted on March 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.”
— Samuel Adams