Tag Archives: Compromise

Art and the Box Office

Posted on August 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Is the art of Broadway or a movie measured by box office or by other standards? Art and the Box Office by Michael Romani It may seem a bit of artifice To say that art isn’t measured by the box … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Artifice, Balance, Box Office, Compromise, Corrupt, Doubt, Establishment, Life, Measure, Perfect Jewel, Persuasion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Showmanship, Soul, Tarnish, Wise, Youth | Leave a comment

Nestled

Posted on July 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

History is to learn from. Not to be dwelt on. But to take the lessons learned into today so that we might build a better tomorrow. Nestled by Michael Romani Nestled behind an old chapel Rests with the bite of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Antebellum, Apple, Benighted, Blind, Brutality, Build, Chapel, Compromise, Contrary, False, Family, Freedom, Gentry, History, Learn, Legacy, Lessons, Moonlight and Magnolias, Paradox, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Slavery, Southern Heritage, Tidewater, Tomorrow, Truth | Leave a comment

Beauty In A Blade of Grass

Posted on June 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It isn’t so long ago that mental illness was seen as the Devil’s work. I was watching a show tonight and it reminded me of this. Beauty In A Blade of Grass by Michael Romani Scratching at the walls Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Asylum, Beauty, Blade, Claw, Closure, Compromise, Devil, Fear, Grass, Madness, Memory, Mental Illness, Obscene, Outlaw, Pain, Pass, Perception, Photograph, Pinky Swear, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sanity, Satan, Shade, Shame, Soul, Walls, Wicked, Wrath | Leave a comment

Cultivating Kindness III

Posted on June 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Lord shows His kindness is His Yes, His No and His Wait. All things that happen, happen with purpose. It’s important in our growing to consider this perspective no matter how personally unsettling things get or are. Cultivating Kindness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atmosphere, Clear, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Cross, Cultivate, Darkness, Discipline, Effort, Experience, Family, Fear, Find, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, God, Integrity, Kind, Kindness, Lesson, Lord, Love, Obedience, One, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Promise, Reflect, Repent, Seek, Sense, Sin, Smile, Sublime, Truth, Walk Back, Warning | Leave a comment

Finding Our Way Home

Posted on March 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s no place like home – there before the hearth’s warmth, knowing where we truly belong. There is no deeper or richer feeling than to feel love for love’s sake than to love someone even deeper than that. Finding Our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Agonize, Alientation, Analyze, Antagnozie, Choice, Compromise, Consequence, Dark, Day, Deliver, Demonize, Destination, Devote, Equality, Fate, Find, Forgiver, God Given Right, Ground, Happiness, Heart, Her sdie, Home, Humanity, Humor, Lady, Laughing Eyes, Light, My Place, Our, Patronize, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rationalize, Rumor, Salvation, Struggle, Vanity, Veracity, Walk, Willing | Leave a comment

Little By Little

Posted on January 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A quiet take on understanding life… Little By Little by Michael Romani Today, I came face to face with Neruda’s mean As I contemplated the mortality of this being That if little by little we live as though indentured To … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Adventure, Atonal, Battle, Brilliant, Cherish, Compromise, Contemplate, Daughters, Denial, Dying, Eyes, Face to Face, Fall, Fascination, Fears, Fight, Forgive, Give, Give All, Grin, Improvisation, Indentured, Laugh, Life, Linger, Little, Live, Living, Love, Middle, More, Mortality, Neruda, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ravage, Rhyme, Shade, Smile, Taken, Ventured, Win, Yes | Leave a comment

Globalization and Its Discontents

Posted on October 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There is a struggle going on between those who seek to dominate the world under what started as the seemingly benign polices of globalization and those of us who get the need to foster cooperation but remain patriotic to our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belligerance, Civilization, Compromise, Crux, Deconstruction, Devastation, Dominance, Forced Change, Forced Migration, Freedom, Globalists, Globalization, Ideology, Indoctrination, Infiltration, Invasion, Left, Liberty, Loathe, Marx, Metasize, National Character, Nationalism, Optimism, Paradigm, Patriotism, Pessimism, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Preference, Right, Self Contempt, Society, Theology, Tradition, Tyranny | Leave a comment

Stitch In Time (Bride of Frankenstein)

Posted on October 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

A different sort of look at an old story. Stitch In Time (Bride of Frankenstein) by Michael Romani The things we have as we venture Living life as a grand adventure Sometimes it’s more than pride can take When it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bride of Frankenstein, Challenges, Compromise, Constrain, Corset, Cruelty, Darkness, Death's Kiss, Deception, Decisions, Dragons, Grand Adventure, Journey, Light, Losing Game, Mend, Pain, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Pride, Slay, Smile, Steps, Stitch, Subterfuge, Surprise, Time, Torture, Vain, Venture, Whisper | Leave a comment

Casting Away Our Sins

Posted on May 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Genesis Casting Away Our Sin by Michael Romani The Word of God is for His People All of us who gather in his steeple And so it is that we need again To adhere to remove our sins It doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Casting Away, Children of God, Compromise, Crown, Fulfillment, Grace, Inequity, Living History, Monuments, Pain, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reality, Sins, Steeple, Word of God | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It’s Better to Have Half A Loaf of Bread Than None At all

Posted on May 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“There are some people who would have you so stand on principle that if you don’t get all that you’ve asked for … you jump off the cliff with the flag flying. I have always figured that a half a … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Compromise, Democratic Process, Loaf, None, Principle, Ronald Reagan, Some, Thought For the Day, Uncompromising | Leave a comment