Tag Archives: Curse

Thought For the Day: Society Cannot Trample On the Weakest and Feeblest of Its Members Without Receiving the Curse In Its Own Soul

Posted on May 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bound Up, Curse, Feeblest, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Humanity, Members, Society, Soul, Thought For the Day, Together, Trample, We, Weak | Leave a comment

An Easter Of Empty Churches

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What an odd sort of Easter wasn’t it? But perhaps a lesson to be learned… An Easter of Empty Churches by Michael Doyle April of 2019, Notre-Dame was burning And in this, we were surprised and learning That there would … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of Us, April 2019, April 2020, Assumption, Bar, Barren, Believe, Believers, Believing, Burn, Capable, Caves, Celebrate, Church, Churches, Comfort, Consensus, Contend, COVID-19, Cross, Curse, Deceiving, Distance, Door, Dread, Easter, Empty, Excommunication, Faith, Faithful, Fate, Faustian Bargain, Fear, God, Government, Grieve, Hearts, Home Church, Homes, Hope, Hues, Infection, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Saves, Know, Learn, Lepers, Loss, Love of Others, Meant, Need, Notre Dame, One, Order, Pain, Pandemic, Pews, Photograph, Plagues, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Pray, Prayer, Presumption, Question, Reality, Realization, Reappear, Resistance, Revelation, Rich, Shape, Shut, Son, Spiritual, Sustain, The Church, the Word, There, Thrive, True, Unease, Wait, War, World | Leave a comment

End of the Frontier

Posted on March 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Between the 1870s to the early 1900s, American society became a vast sea of sea change in matters of all forms of transformation going on at once. End of the Frontier by Michael Doyle The travesty of the Civil War … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Assimilation, Big, Big Business, Blessing, Bold, City, Civilization, Cohesion, Columbus, Commerce, Commodity, Corporation, Curse, Development, End, Exploration, Face, Family Business, Federal, Finance, Foreign Born, Frederick Turner, Frontier, Gains, Grand Review, Hero, History, Immigration, Industrialization, Industry, Infrastructure, JP Morgan, Labor, Losses, Melting Pot, Moderinization, Modern, Money, Moot, Nation, National Power, Nature, Oil, Peril, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Population, Power, Profession, Providence, Railroad, Republican Values, Revitalization, Rockefeller, Salad, Sea Change, Society, Spirit of the West, Town, Transformation, Transportation, Unification, Urban, Virtue, Washington D.C., World Columbian Exposition | Leave a comment

Cursed Fate

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young | Leave a comment

Given To the Fire

Posted on October 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #24: https://flic.kr/p/s4ZNhr Given To the Fire by Michael Romani Gazing on the precious cross Given to the fire with a toss One soul stood itself alone But, oh so, very lost and alone As if her heart were … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Alone, Atone, Aware, Battle, Begun, Best, Breath, Brutal, Candle, Close, Cross, Curse, Damned, Death, Destination, Dies, Embrace, End, End of Days, Eyes, Face, Fatal, Fire, Friend, Friends, Give, God, Goodbye, Halloween, Heart, Humanity, Immortality, Incarnate, Invoke, Kiss, Know, Life, Light, Love, Night, Offering, Pain, Pale, Peace On Earth, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Protection, Remorse, Run, Salvation, Sin, Soul, Squander, Stone, Suffering, Tear, Today, Vain, Wander, Whisper, Wisdom, Wolf, Wolf of God, Won | Leave a comment

Nightbirds Sing In Prophecy

Posted on October 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #11: https://flic.kr/p/nF9hWR Nightbirds Sing In Prophecy by Michael Romani Hiding in the dark of shadow Is that thing which you must know Hold those tears that you might cry Never knowing the passage of goodbye You think you … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bits and Bones, Book of Sin, Claw, Cry, Curse, Dance, Dark, Day, Demonic, Dragon, Forsake, God, Halloween, Hide, History, Invoke, Know, Knowledge, Last, Legacy, Mystery, Nightbird, Nowhere, Passage, Passion, Pestilence, Photograph, Pipe, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Prophecy, Protection, Quiet, Reveal, Second Sight, Shadow, Sing, Tear, Way, Worse | Leave a comment

Like Dominoes Falling

Posted on April 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Anger, Behind, Brave, Brilliance, Brother, Carry, Close, Cry, Curse, Dad, Darkness, Deadly, Death, Die, Domino, Dose, Explode, Fall, Family, Fear, Firefighter 54, Foot, Forget, Friends, Frown, God, God Parents, Grief, Grieve, Hell, Helpless, Implode, Me, Memory, Mom, Next, Pass, Pen to Paper, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Pox, Pray, Prayer, Read, Resilience, Secret, Severe, Sister, Slow, Smile, Stars, Step, Stiff Upper Lip, Talk, There, Thought, Time, Torn, Upside Down, Walk, Weight, Whisper, Wonder, World, Write, Year | Leave a comment

The Fury Gone

Posted on October 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Watching a show about something altogether different, this poem just sort of popped itself out of back of my cranium… The Fury Gone by Michael Romani She was nervous, afraid to ask it About how the Triad wars Had very … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Casket, Chinatown, Comfort, Cry, Curse, Dream, Fish, Fury, Gallant, Glory, Gone, Heirloom, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Simple, Smile, Sorrow, Story, Streets, Struggle, Tomorrow, Triad Wars, Unafraid | Leave a comment

The Inhumanity of It All

Posted on October 6, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

If monsters had their say, what would they? The Inhumanity of It All by Michael Romani If monsters had their say, what would they? What are they but creatures of habit that obey The call of their natures feeding their … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Addiction, Affliction, Bleed, Bloodlust, Born, Creatures, Curse, Daylight, Discern, Dracula, Eden, Focus, Funeral Dirge, Gore, Habit, Halloween, History, Hunters, Inhumanity, Joy, Kindness, League, Lean, Loch Ness Monster, Love, Mark of Cain, Moan, Monsters, Moon Blindness, Mourn, North Star, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Ends, Primal Urge, Self Aflliction, Solitary, Survival, Wolfman, World War | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Ban

Posted on September 28, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Voices of reflected euphoria do what they can To negate the curse I feel knowing of my ban To be fated against my every reasonable expectation I find myself in the throes of my own rejection In all my private … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized | Tagged Anthem, Ban, Curse, Daily Prompt, Discontentment, Door, Emotion, Enchantment, Euphoria, Expectatioin, Hard Line, Heart, Holy War, Punishment, Rejection, Song and Dance, Toccata, Voices | Leave a comment