Tag Archives: Accept

The Healing Acceptance of Self

Posted on November 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem of humility and gratitude # 12: The Healing Acceptance of Self by Michael Romani With gratitude, I accept myself No longer looking for answers from a shelf But, seeking instead to find peace from within Behind that wall … Continue reading →

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Collect Call

Posted on November 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In humble gratitude, I offer this poem for those moments we feel most challenged in trying to understand the necessary balance of things as a poem of thankfulness #10: Collect Call by Michael Romani It’s moments like these When I’m … Continue reading →

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Moved By Authenticity

Posted on November 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In this season of gratitude and humility, it is our prayer that we all be moved more by humility than ego and more toward love, away from hate. Moved by Authenticity by Michael Romani In that container of love we … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Difficulty Is the Excuse History Never Accepts

Posted on September 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Difficulty Is the Excuse History Never Accepts.” – Edward R Murrow

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accept, Difficulty, Edward R. Murrow, Excuse, History, Never, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Adulting Conversation

Posted on May 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger. Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”… Adulting Conversation by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Adult, Adulting, Change, Communication, Construction, Conversation, Danger, Deal, Fascination, Fix, Future, Hope, Insult, Introduction, Keep It Real, Language, Linguist, Live and Learn, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Risk, Rope, Talk, Tic, Turn, Verbal Punch, Words | Leave a comment

In the Suffering of Christ

Posted on February 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based on 1 Peter 2:21-25 In the Suffering of Christ by Michael Romani Suffered for the cause of Holy Christ It is the role that we my bear and live Living to our best and to our finest We suffer … Continue reading →

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Home On Phone, the Homophones Echo

Posted on February 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Poem A Day for Day #13 is to be prepared in the Echo Poem form. The word prompt if needed is ‘dense’. From https://www.britannica.com/art/echo-verse: “Echo verse, a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Advice, Advise, Affect, All Ready, All Right, Already, Alright, Dense, Echo Poem, Effect, Except, Homophones, Lead, Led, Loose, Lose, Milkwood, Mind, Mined, Poem A Day, Repetition, Seams, Seems, Too, Two, Weather, Were, Whether | 2 Comments

Polemics and Passion

Posted on December 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons are learned about injustice and how love can reach past those injustices. Where there is love, it will always find its way. Polemics and Passion by Michael Romani Polemics and passion Caught in moonlight Tropes that fashion But never … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Bars, Being, Believe, Brutal, Circumspect, Clinical, Community, Conceive, Connection, Correction, Cynical, Dehumanization, Deny, Despair, Detect, False Accusation, Family, Fashion, Hope, Human, Introduction, Miracle, Moonlight, Nation, Neighbor, Passion, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polemic, Present, Prison, Right, Seduction, Silence, Stare, Structure, Swoon, Urgent | Leave a comment

On Coming Home Again

Posted on November 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Is death just returning home again? Some say so. I don’t know. On Coming Home Again by Michael Romani It’s a matter of fact There’s no going back Only moving ever forward Hoping this moment takes us toward The new … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Accumulation, Aground, Alone, Atone, Aybss, Day, Death, Die, Edge, Eternity, Fact, Family, Forward, Future, Gentle, Going Back, Happiness, Home, Loss, Mercy, Midnight, New World, Night, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sorrow, Still, Surrender, Terms, Tombstone, Tomorrow, Toss, Toward, Twilight, Worms | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Innocence Lost

Posted on October 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Seems like a theme this year so far for this coming Halloween doesn’t it? I guess it’s been on mind lately that some of our worse horrors are self inflicted by mankind. On Innocence Lost (In War) by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

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