Tag Archives: Children

Power of the Moon

Posted on July 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There is a tidal pull to the moon that is nothing short of miraculous. Power of the Moon by Michael Romani The children must learn The power of the moon Pulled by tides we earn Our keep from the ocean’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Boon, Children, Collide, Depend, Earn, Essential, Full, Human, Ice, Inuit, Learn, Lesson, Life, Listen, Lunar, Moon, Motion, Mussel, Ocean, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pursue, Reason, Ride, Sacred, Spin, Stars, Sun, Survive, Think, Thrive, Tide, Truth, Understand, Wise | Leave a comment

Satan’s Kiss

Posted on July 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Madness knows no mercy. Satan’s Kiss by Michael Romani Loneliness becomes her friend The only one on which to depend In a chosen profession of glory A mild confession is given in story To hold belief in once upon As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belief, Broken, Children, Confession, Courage, Depend, Dream, Fire, Friend, Funeral Pyre, Glory, Key, Kiss, Loneliness, Madness, Mercy, Mist, Noble, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Satan, Sorrow, Sting, Story, Strong, Thought | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Must Take Care To Elevate Our Children’s Minds, Courage and Souls Encouraging Them To Excel In Every Capacity, Faculty and Virtue

Posted on July 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ambition, Capacity, Care, Children, Contempt, Couurage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Industry, Inhumanity, Injustice, John Adams, Meanness, Minds, Virtue | Leave a comment

American Dream

Posted on July 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In this day and age, so many tear at the foundations of America. They do so with an almost willful ignorance of what came before and what’s happened since. There is an insistence that perfection be from the beginning when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, Children, Confuse, Critic, Crumble, Dream, Dystopia, Family, Foundation, Freedom, Gettysburg, God Given, Hues, Human Condition, Humble Beginning, Ignorance, Judge, Mankind, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reparations, Revolution, Shoes, Shoulder, Slavery, Tear, Today, Understanding | Leave a comment

First Principles: Christianity Must Be the Basis of Government Intended To Secure the Rights and Privileges of A Free People

Posted on June 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Basis, Children, Christianity, First Principles, First Thing, Free Government, Free People, Government, Instruct, Noah Webster, Privileges, Rights, Secure, Truth | Leave a comment

What of the Children?

Posted on June 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sins of the fathers? Matter of karma or fate? A lost sense of ethical balance? Children come into this world as blessings and deal with the corruptive influences that are out of their control. Don’t we owe them so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bills, Bless, Body, Born, Children, Contribution, Corruption, Disease, Disruption, Ethical Balance, Fate, Father, Guide, Heart, Karma, Love, Mind, Pharmacology, Pills, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Sin, Sold, Soul, Spill, Spirit, Star, Toxic, World | Leave a comment

Nuzzle and Nudge

Posted on June 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Father’s Day is approaching. Due to lack of funds, I’ve not seen the girls but twice since June 10 of last year. We won’t even really get into the 73 times that the Court ordered telephonic visitation has been interfered … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Altar, Calvary, Children, Chocolate, Comfort, Cradle, Daughters, Embrace, Fairy Dust, Falter, Father's Day, Fort, God, Humanity, Humility, Imagination, Interstellar Sailor, Love, Moments, Moonbeam, Nudge, Nuzzle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redeem, Sacrifice, Serve, Sincre, Space, Time, Tomorrow, Transform, Vanity | Leave a comment

First Principles: Honor, Justice and Humanity Makes It Our Duty To Pass Liberty On To Our Children’s Children

Posted on June 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ancestors, Call, Children, Duty, First Principles, Honor, Humanity, John Dickinson, Justice, Liberty, Posterity, Transmit, Wealth | Leave a comment

Frozen Infinity

Posted on May 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge brought last night was to write a poem about snow, ice, winter, spring and all the things these things bring. Who knew that albatrosses also mate for life? I didn’t know…. and…Here’s my attempt: Frozen Infinity by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Albatross, Alive, Antarctica, Beauty, Blunder, Boom, Children, Cod, Consequence, Consign, Cost, Cub, Cycle, Design, Duty, Early Bird, Earth, Emperor, Feeling, Flood, Frozen, God Willing, Harsh, Hunter, Ice, Icicle, Infinity, Lean Times, Life, Loom, Manna, Melt, Meltwater, Migration, Mother Nature, Mother's Love, Narhal, New Life, Niche, North, Ocean, Peace, Pebble, Penguin, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Polar Bear, Polar Wind, Prey, Remind, Sense, Snow, Spring, Stone, Strife, Sun, Survive, Tapestry, Thaw, Tundra, Tusk, Tuxedo, Unfair, Unicorn, Waterfall, Winter, Wonder | 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