Tag Archives: Beach

The Slow Crawl

Posted on May 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Slow Crawlby Michael DoylePushing past the slow crawl of another dayEdged to darkness and I begin to prayTo a god that I feel unsure ofBut who has a sense of humor disguised as loveDeath is a way out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All I Loved Died, All of My Thoughts, Alone, Another Day, Authentic, Beach, Being, Blessing, Brutality, Change, Contend, Curse, Darkness, Daze, Death, Deeply, Deeply Feel, Disguise, Edge, End, Failed Humanity, Flow, Given heart, God, Grains, Heal, Heart, Honest, Humor, Immortality, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Math, Maze, Mercy, Naught, Need, Path, Pits, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pushing Past, Reach, River, Scars, Seen, Slow Burn, Slow Crawl, Staring Deep, Stone, Straighter Course, Stranger, Twisted, Undeserving, Unsure, Waking Up, Wish, Worse | Leave a comment

Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday 2020)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Day 5 is Palm Sunday! Challenging, really challenging prompt today. 20 separate components: “Our (optional) prompt for today is one that we have used in past years, but which I love to come back to, because it so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, Age, Beach, Beautiful, Beginning, Belief, Bittersweet, Blind, Brutality, Cannibalism, Challenge, Communion, Conform, Cries, Cry, Dealt, Death, Deceiver, Defeat, Degrees of Separation, Die, Donkey, End, Entry, Find, Flight, God, Grace, Hole, Hosana, Hoshiya Na, Human Form, Humanity, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jim Simmerman, King of the Jews, Laugh, Live, Lord, Lost, Me, Metaphor, Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Narrow, Overwhelmning, Palm Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Out, Provide, Redeem, Religious People, Return, Ripped Flesh, Sacral, Sake, Salvation, Save, Seek, Senses, Shudder, Side, Sinner, Smell, Spiritual, Symbolism, Tarzan, Taste, Tears, The Gate, Three Day, Together, Torture, Touch, Triumph, Truth, Twenty Little Poetry Projects, Urbanism, Victory, Wait, World, Wounded | 2 Comments

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… Further Reaches by Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Blend, Bright, Chain, Charm, Cheek, Chorus, Conscience, Desire, Distance, Dream, Dreams, Enchant, Far, Feeling, Felt, Field, Fingertips, Fire, Good, Harm, Hesitation, Human, Intention, Kiss, Light Years, Lips, Love, Mean, Melt, Moment, Night, Passion, Philosophy, Photograph, Pity, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Pursuit, Push, Put Up, Question, Reach, Science, Shore, Silent, Snowdrop, Stardust, Stars, Swirl, Time, Time Waster, True, Twinkle, Woke, Wonder, World, Yield | Leave a comment

Nostalgia For Guantanamo

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth | Leave a comment

Chinook of the North

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

My apologies for falling asleep before writing the poem for yesterday’s challenge. The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 10 is to write a poem that references a local weather term. After some thought and discussion, I have chose a type … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, Arms, Beach, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Canuck, Chinook, City, Cloud, Coastie, Cold, Cold Spell, Color, Companion, Company, Conversation, Dawn, Devotion, Fraser Canyon, Friend, Funny, Gray, Her, Human, Indulgence, Lady, Laughs, Love, Lovely, Lover, Magic, Midnight, Monkey, Moon, Mountain, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, North, Ocean Child, Orographic, Pacific Ocean, Peace, Photograph, Pineapple Breeze, Playful, Poem, Poetry, Rain Shadow, Rainbow, Ramparts, Safe, Shine, Smile, Snow Eater, Snowbird, Snowfall, Spawn, Star, Story, Sweet, Teasure, Term, Tim Horton, Two Nations, United States, Weather, Whisper, Wind, Witness, Worry | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Retrospective

Posted on May 31, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Lately, it seems I’ve been quietly introspective Caught up in a nostalgic, retrospective Thinking back on times that have long since past All those things that didn’t last Long drives out into the desert to see what we might Long … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Beach, California, Daily Prompt, Desert, Happiness, Lifetime, Long Drives, Mirage, Mountains, Nostalgic, Retrospective, Thinking, Wordpress | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Rapids

Posted on May 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Smoothly flowing along the soft run Flowing breathless in the morning sun Along this flowered, sweet dream I take in the view on this silken stream Approaching the whitewater’s froth Drank in like nature’s rapine broth Reveling in the exhilarating … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Aeration, Beach, Cascade, Daily Prompt, Flow, Inspiration, Rapids, Reach, Run, Stream, Sun, Whitewater, Wordpress | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 16: Waves Like Yesterday

Posted on April 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriMo challenge for day 16 is to write a poem about a sport or those who do the sport. I’ve chosen surfing. Big surprise? Probably not…. Waves Like Yesterday by Michael Romani Walking down the grains of sandy beach … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Crash, Dolphins, Palm Trees, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Secret Chill, Shore, Storm Winds, Surf's Up, Surfing, Waves | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Inchoate

Posted on April 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Is it maybe a just little too late To take us back to a time inchoate Where peace reigned in the village And our memories would not pillage The innocence of only just yesterday Before all these troubles came our … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Beach, Daily Prompt, Inchoate, Innocence, Late, Nostalgia, Pillage, Tomorrow, Village, Wordpress, Yesterday | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Radiant

Posted on April 2, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There are few things more radiant than the rising sun I miss those days of the early morning beach runs Afterward, sitting quietly reflecting on the day That had just happened or that was on its way The wave that … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Beach, Daily Prompt, Homesick, Mastery, Memories, Ocean, Photograph, Radiant, Rising Sun, Tapestry, Wordpress | Leave a comment