Tag Archives: Acceptance

Daily Prompt – Existential

Posted on September 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There is something in the existential moment When we realize life consists of daily torment But still it’s the very best deal that is offered Dreams of immortality are not even proffered With a the straightness of anyone’s best face … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Acceptance, Bridge Too Far, Daily, Daily Prompt, Days, Deal, Death, Deny, Dreams, Embrace, Existential, Gaily, Immortality, Moment, Pain, Push, Real, Steal, Straight Face, Torment, Truth | Leave a comment

Role of Repentance

Posted on September 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Psalms 103 Role of Repentance by Michael Romani Positive and ever uplifting Moral ground never shifting Coming to God’s full acceptance And willing to undergo repentance Finding my way away from sin Learning Jesus is indeed my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Admission, Best Days, Blessing, Confession, Contentment, Embrace, Forgiven, Free, Friend, God, God's Love, Grace, Heart, Heartbreak, Jesus, Joy, Lack, Learn, Moral Ground, New Ways, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psalms, Repentance, Resentment, Selfishness, Sin, Truth, Walk Back, Ways, Will | Leave a comment

Redemption Of A Clown

Posted on September 2, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Some things just aren’t funny. Like someone who abuses their power and position to coerce others into things otherwise unimaginable to them. Less funny still is when that same comedian thinks he can excuse away his or her lewd and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Boys, Care, Clown, Comedian, Contemplation, Daughters, Doubt, Lady, Match, Mothers, Neglect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Reconciliation, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Sisters, Talk, Toys, Walk, Watch, Women | Leave a comment

The Squishy Sound of Democracy

Posted on August 15, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The suppression of free speech is a leading indicator of fascism not freedom and certainly not the small r republican values our Founding Fathers advocated in their classical liberalism. I for one refuse to bend to tyranny from any camp… … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Authoritarian, Bridges, Censorship, Classical Liberalism, Communicate, Conflict, Dangers, Democracy, Disagreeable Voices, Diversity, False Morality, Fascism, Founding Fathers, Free Speech, Freedom, Fundamental, Gaffes, Internet, Margin, Messy, Negotiation, New York Times, Objectivity, Opposition, Perversity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Reason, Resolution, Riot, Self Responsibility, Social Control, Society, Strangers, Suppression, Times Square, True, Twitter, Tyranny | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo 4: To Make You Whole

Posted on April 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge for day four is to create a poem making an abstract concept concrete. I was thinking of my brother in law lately anyhow. So, I chose to embody the grief felt by both he and I regarding my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Bargaining, Blackness, Connection, Console, Crater-Sized Hole, Family, Grief, Happiness, Joy, Loneliness, Loss, Na/GloPoWriMo, Pain, Passing Years, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ponded Tears, Sister, To Make You Whole, Whole | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Profuse

Posted on February 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Time bleeds profusely across my lost page Senses felt, sometimes love; others empty rage Dancing on the ends of pierced second hands Pivoting with leaping conclusions that sometimes land You speak to me of patience as time slips away With … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Acceptance, Bleeds, Conclusions, Daily Prompt, Defiance, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Kidney Punches, Page, Profuse, Second Hands, Tears, Time, Wish, Wordpress | Leave a comment

…And the Greatest of These

Posted on January 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

…And the Greatest of These by Michael Romani Ten lords leaped without much of a look To the lessons of love from the Holy Book In a new form of math where ten became two The complexities were broken down … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 12 Days of Christmas, Acceptance, Actions, Agape, Christmastide, God, Greatest Commandments, Humanity, Judgment, Love, Neighbors, Poem, Poetry, Splinter, Ten Commandments, Ten Lords A Leaping, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Consideration of Thought Does Not Mean Its Acceptance

Posted on December 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher Sometimes deep contemplation on the thoughts of others sharpens your own that are contrary. Consider the above. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acceptance, Aristotle, Comprehension, Consideration, Education, Multiple Sides, Non-Acceptance, Understand | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Patina

Posted on December 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Light blasts through the mental accumulation As we get in tuned with the new procrastination The patina grows through the memories of pain Flowing in our lives like moments spent in the rain We laughed so loud in voices meant … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Acceptance, Accumulation, Chance, Company, Daily Prompt, Extended Family, Life, Opportunity, Patina, Procrastination, Rain, Tears, Wordpress, Years | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Do Not Wait For Perfection To Follow Your Heart

Posted on October 9, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.” – Cardinal John Henry Newman One of the concerns faced by many this day is … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acceptance, Cardinal John Henry Newman, Love, Perfectionism, Procrastination, Spirituality, Thought For the Day, Virtue | Leave a comment