Tag Archives: Cost

In A Question of Liberty

Posted on April 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this second day of Na/GloPoWriMo, we are invited to explore writing a poem that avoids closure by providing the open end of the question. I believe that as an invitation to explore a significant question raised by a far … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Broken, Carry On, Chose, Clever, Colonist, Conviction, Cost, Depiction, Derision, Destination, Embed, Endeavor, Extraordinary, Fall, Freedom, Gift, God, Greatness, Heresy, History, Keep, Liberty, Loss, Lost, Mankind, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Ordinary, Origin, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Risen, Secure, Society, Spoken, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Truth, Vision, World | Leave a comment

First Reasons Lost

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

What becomes of our individual worlds when our first reasons are lost? First Reasons Lost by Michael Romani First reasons have been lost And with that loss comes a cost The giving up when it becomes Too much to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusations, Another, Busy Day, Call, Closed Eyes, Cold, Compassion, Conception, Cost, Dare, Demanding, Doubt, Down, Dreams, Drown, Fall, Fear, First Reason, Giving up, Good Lord, Gray, Imagine, Inquisition, Lashing Out, Listen, Lost, Love, Matter, Miraclees, Nightmare, Numb, Other, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Real, Requisition, Reveal, Rope, See, Self Inflict, Shatter, Snare, Snowfall, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Trap, True Light, Understanding, Voyage, Water, Winter, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: Remember To Make Good Use of Our Heritage of Freedom

Posted on March 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.” – John Adams

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Cost, First Principles, Freedom, Generation, Good Use, John Adams, Posterity, Preserve | Leave a comment

Felt (The Loss of Shangri-la)

Posted on January 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s interesting. This poem started of with the intention of being a lighthearted look at the sort of a person who would look at Shangri-La an think that all it’s missing is a casino. By the time, my pen hit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Blues, Break Up, Breath, Burden, Burn, Cost, Darkness, Dream, Easy, Embrace, Eyes, Face, Feel, Felt, Flow, Forbidden, Forever After, Happiness, Hurt, Kiss, Laugh, Laughter, Lifetime, Light, Lonely, Loss, Lost, Man, Minute, Miss, Moment, Once Upon A Time, Pain, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhyme, Rising Star, Rite of Passage, Shake, Shangri-La, Silent, Sleepless Night, Solitary, Soul, Star-shine, Step, Surprise, Thought, Touch, Treasure, True, Wake, Wonder, Word, World | Leave a comment

Ruin and Salvation

Posted on January 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes we find our strengths are our weaknesses and our weaknesses our strength. Who is to say which is which? Only in the blackest points of our lives do we ever really know. Ruin and Salvation by Michael Romani Out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Brew, Cost, Depth, Disgrace, Embrace, Fight, Forgive, Ghost, Hell Driven, Help, Honor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Ruin, Salvation, Storm, Strong, Truth, Weak, Wish | Leave a comment

Stubbed Toe Pride

Posted on November 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Pride and stubbed toes often go together in the most unlikely but problematic combinations. Stubbed Toe Pride by Michael Romani With all the stubbed toes aside It’s hard to run when filled with pride Strong words said as accusations fly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusations, Challenge, Correction, Cost, Detail, Direction, Discern, Dust, Eternity, Hope, Invitation, Learn, Levity, Lost, Murmur, Parse, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reveal, Share, Stumbed Toe | Leave a comment

Shoreline Conditions

Posted on November 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Part IV of the story of the fall of legendary Troy: Shoreline Conditions by Michael Romani All the terms and conditions In even the earliest renditions Speak of two lovers washed on a shoreline Hand in hand, impervious to their … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artemis, Cherish, Command, Cost, Crimes, Daugther, Elopment, Fight, Forgot, Gold, Greece, Helen, Heresy, Honor, Legend, Lesson, Lost, Love, Lovers, Mercy, Paris, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possession, Price, Priest, Sacrifice, Savage, Shoreline, Slaughter, Sparta, Troy, Umbrage, United, War, Winds | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Grimace

Posted on September 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The chains that bind us to our dark embrace Are the chains that make me stop and grimace Is there even a ghost of a chance at second glance Bringing all of this back into some balance? Tell me now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized | Tagged Balance, Chains, Chance, Children, Cost, Daily Prompt, Dark, First Duty, Grimace, Innocent, Let Them Be, Lost, Love, Protect, Second Glance, Tug of War, Wrath | Leave a comment

Eichmann’s Finale

Posted on September 2, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

For some crimes there is never enough justice. That Eichmann attempted to make the case that simply following orders somehow exonerated his deeds has always struck me as horrific. Eichmann’s Finale by Michael Romani Shattered echoes fill the mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Banality, Blowback, Butcher's Knife, Cost, Crimes Against Humanity, Death, Denial, Echoes, Eichmann, Evil, Exoneration, Finale, Hatred, History, Identity, Inhumanity, Justice, Karma, Lessons, Lost, Orders, Payback, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Restitution, Retribution, Sanity, Simplicity, Trauma, Trial, Truth | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Thin

Posted on August 9, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Shooting from the far side I feeling it thin Lost my pride Looking in; looking in All those things that I done Got this rabbit on the run Praying from near side Reeling it in Talking ’bout my pride Looking … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Cost, Daily Prompt, Debt, Far Side, Guilt, Introspection, Loss, Lost, Poetry, Pride, Rabbit, Run, Thin, Wish | Leave a comment