Tag Archives: Control

Making Pictures

Posted on May 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Probably the most important part of photography beyond having a camera and then taking photos as you luck into photos that just innately make sense to you as you click and shoot is how to compose those photos into that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Bread and Butter, Capture, Change, Chaos, Choose, Click and Shoot, Collaboration, Collection, Compose, Conception, Control, Day, Deception, Decision, Details, Difference, Distort, Distraction, Done, Dynamic Tension, Experimentation, Fascination, Focus, Formation, Frame, Game, Good, Image, Images, Information, Interesting, Keeper, Lame, Look, Make, Matter, Mean, Message, Moments, Naturally, Need, Off Center, One, Order, Particular, Pay Off, Perception, Perspective, Photograph, Photographer, Photography, Pictures, Poem, Poertry, Precision, Prod, Quality, Refraction, Rid, Roll of the Drums, Rule of Thirds, See, Shape, Sing, Split Seconds, Story, Subjective, Tale, Tell, Think, Whole, Work, Zing | Leave a comment

An Introduction of Light

Posted on April 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Photography is a trick of light crafted to create the illusion desired. It depends on ambient or found light and that introduced light that we use to reflect how we choose to see what we are viewing. Or, ummm… something … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Add, Attempt, Beauty, Bring, Capture, Control, Craft, Create, Day and Night, Days, Definition, Depend, Depth, Desire, Detail, Diffusion, Experiment, Exposure, Eye, Fill Flash, Flash, Gift, Harshness, Illumination, Illusion, Immensity, Intensity, Introduction, Light, Overhead Light, Party, Photograph, Photography, Photos, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reflect, Reveal, See, Shadow, Show, Shutter Speed, Side, Sight, Softness, Sought, Starkness, Strobe, Thought, Trick of Light, Unusual, World | Leave a comment

The Wolf Knows Its Howl

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Authority, Bitterness, Brave, Call, Censorship, Choke, Civilization, Conscience, Control, Creative Mind, Crevice, Crime Against Humanity, Cry, Culture, Dark, Days, Die, Education, Eradication, Falls, Fight, Free, God, Heart, Howl, Ink, Know, Labor, Light, Live, Mankind, Memorize, Night, Opportunism, Oppression, Paper, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poisoned Tongue, Power, Right, Save, Scrap, Shadow, Sheep, Sleep, Start, Stifle, Surveillance, Truth, Undertaking, Unmask, Watch, Winter, Wolf, Words, World, Writer | Leave a comment

What Color Is A Soul?

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We’re half way through NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 and it’s April 15th. The stated optional objective is to write a poem reflective of the color of any particular brand of our choosing. This brought to mind an argument brewing since the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Again, American Dream, Behind, Belief, Best, Black, Black Price, Blind, Bliss, Blow, Blues, Breakdown, Breath, Cats, Color, Color Barrier, Control, Creole, Crim, Crow Jim, Distinction, Down Side, Extinction, Feeling, Foster, Grief, Heartless, History, Hyphen, Idiom, Inexcusable, Integration, Jazz, Jazzy, Know, Legends, Living, Mistake, Musical, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, New Orleans, Notes, Objectionable, Optimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Correctness, Questionable, Race, Race Consciousness, Racial Preference, Racial Test, Racism, Razz-ma-Tazz, Reality, Reference, Satchmo, Segregation, Sight, Soul, Soulful, South, Stomp, Time, Truth, Uncouth, White, Word of Mouth | Leave a comment

Cross Shaped of An Imperfect Heart

Posted on April 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On the ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, the optional prompt is to “write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Been, Broken Promises, Calling, Comfort, Concrete Poem, Control, Cross, Deny, Despite, Done, Dreadful, Dwell, Dying, Earnest, Easter, Eden, Embrace, Eyes, Faithful, Falling, Forgive, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, His, Holy, Hope, Humbly, Hung, I, Imperfect Heart, Know, Latitude, Live, Lord, Love, Loving, Loyalty, Man, Mistakes, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Prayerfully, Rest, Say, See, Shape, Sin, Sinful, Son, Soul, Stand, Stood, Sunday, Tragic, Ways, Wonder | Leave a comment

Getting Your Shot

Posted on March 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Photography is a bit of a passion of mine. As this pandemic rages on, the decision was made to review a Great Courses program to review the fundamentals as a sort of brush up. Today’s lesson was about equipment. From … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aperture, Best, Brace, Chimping, Choice, Comparison, Confirm, Contribute, Control, Eye, Forgot, Fundamentals, Get, Glimpse, Great Courses, Key, Know, Lesson, Light, Me, Mind, Pandemic, Passion, Photograph, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Seconds, See, Sfot, Shooting, Shot, Shutter Speed, Squeeze, Stroll, Target, Trace, Trajectory, Voice | Leave a comment

Antebellum Blues

Posted on March 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s true that there’s a lot more to the Southern side of the story than I’ll cover in this poem. But, with respect to American history, I would be amiss if I failed to cover this. Antebellum Blues by Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1830s, African, Agrarian, America, American History, Antebellum, Beauty, Bi-Racial, Bitter, Black, Blessed, Blues, Brutality, Canadaa, Cash, Character, Climate, Collision Course, Contrast, Control, Cotton Gin, Cruel, Cry, Dark Clouds, Dash, Disdain, Divide, Division, Domination, Eli Whitney, Enthusiasm, Error, Exodus, Export, Fall, Fear, Fertility, Field Hand, Fundamental, Gather, Ground, Haiti, Hired Hand, History, Horror, Idealism, Industry, Ineqquality, Integrity, Kick of the Can, King Cotton, Lash, Lower South, Master, McHugh, Misery, Moral, Motherless child, Nat Turner, Nation, Nature, Noble, Pecking Order, Peculiar Institution, Perpetuation, Perpetuity, Photograph, Piety, Plantation, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Poverty, Pride, Promised Land, Punditry, Puritan, Puzzle, Racism, Rebellion, Recall, Road, Role, Ruin, Sad, Seal, Sensibility, Slave, Slave Religion, Sobriety, Socialism, Society, Solace, South, Split, System, Terror, Textile, Truth, Ugly, Understand, Upper South, Virginia, Wage Slavery, War, White | Leave a comment

In Dedication To You

Posted on February 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

One day I met a really wonderful elf. As blessings would have it, the person behind that elf was even more wonderfully magical. Our first conversation started simply. We discussed the use of wind-lights in SL photography and one thing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Acceptance, All, All Night, Awake, Beguile, Behind, Blessing, Blind, Breath, Broken Heart, Complete, Connection, Control, Conversation, Death, Dedication, Details, Devotion, Elf, Eyes, Fatality, Fear, Feeling, Find, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Hide, History, Hold, Inspiration, Join, Level, Life, Live, Love, Loving Connection, Meet, Mortality, Ocean, Pain, Past, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reel, Rest, Safe, See, Side, Sincere, Smile, Soul, Still, Storm, Sunrise, Sweet, Take, Talk, Vulnerable, Walk, Warm, Weather, Year | Leave a comment

Valentine Thoughts 2020

Posted on February 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Beautiful weekend spent in part with two little princesses that I adore and a lady who is the queen of my heart. One later for the girls. One for my lady just written: Valentine Thoughts 2020 by Michael Romani To … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Appearance, Beauty, Begin, Blind, Catch, Connection, Control, Core, Deception, Deep, Dream, Everything, Fall, Find, Float, Forget, Grand Slam, Heart, Hours, Intimate, Knee, Life, Love Song, Loved, Mind, Open, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Real, Right, Sight, Smile, Sought, Soul, Space, Start, Talk, Thoughts, True, Truth, Unconditionally, Valentine's Day, Walk, Walls, Weekend, Zen | Leave a comment

Dark Hearted Contemplation

Posted on February 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Gossips can be so harsh in the half truths and complete untruths they attempt to spread and the heartbreak they wish to inflict on those who are innocent in any case. This is a poem in response to the misdeeds … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibis, Animosity, Attack, Authority, Awak, Believe, Cheat, Code of Honor, Contemplation, Control, Dark Heart, Dishonest, Empty, End, Eyes, Faith, False Accusation, Faslity, Feeding Frenzy, Gossip, Hard World, Heartbreak, Innocent, Integrity, Island, Jealous, Left Alone, Liar, Lies, Life, Lost, Love, Peace, Petty, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, Responsible, Right, Rumors, Safety, Sauir, Soul, Stone, Strife, Think, Trouble, True Cause, Truth, Uncertain, Wish, Wonder, Words | Leave a comment