Tag Archives: Denial

Sizzle As It Fries

Posted on December 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s hard to get better than today’s celebration! Happy National Bacon Day! Oh sure… some are going to say, hey… you’re supposed to be working hard on your health….. Yes, I know. However, you’ve taken brownies and chocolate chip cookies.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bacon, Bless, Bliss, Brownies, Buy, Care, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Choline, Clinch, Control, Counter Argument, Crispy, Decisively, Decrease, Delicious, Denial, Disapprove, Drizzle, Earth, Ensure, Excuse, Face, Fact, Fish, Fry, Gluten Free, Hair, Happy, Head, Health, Healthy, Heart, Important, Internet, Kitchen, Laugh, Life, Live, Love, Lovingly, Lurch, Mind, Mood, Morning, Move, National Bacon Day, Nose, Numbers, Nutritious, Omega Three, Part, Peace, Perfect Mate, Photograph, Plate, Poem, Poetry, Rude, Sad, Satisfying, Save, Search, Seen, Shake, Share, She, Sizzle, Smile, Soul, Stare, Steal, Stress, Strife, Strip, Sunday, Suspicion, Tease, Tolerate, Trans-Fat, Umami, Vigor, Vim, Vitamin, Wealth, Willing, Wink, Wrinkle, Wrong | Leave a comment

In Defense of Human Reason

Posted on September 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Too many people have forgotten the processes of empirical observation and its accompanying reasoning as the basis for real science. This insistence of substituting in dogma and speculation in the name of a hijacked science and failure to adhere to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandon, Being, Civilization, Concept, Crisis, Cutlure, Defense, Define, Denial, Distinguish, Dumbing Down, Emprical, Essential, Expression, False, Force, Great, Human Reason, Law, Less, Mankind, Matter, Meaning, Modern World, Observation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prophet, Refine, Religion of Science, Sceintific Materialism, Science, Search, Season, Semantics, Truth, Word Games | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life

Posted on July 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acceptance, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Denial, Enough, Feast, Friend, Fullness, Gratitude, Home, House, Life, Meal, Melody Beattie, Order, Stranger, Thought For the Day, Unlock | Leave a comment

Lost Faces of Chernobyl

Posted on May 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Nuclear is one of the safest and cleanest paths to provide energy. The problem is that it takes just one disaster to stir up the worst fear. I can’t say it’s not reasonable that it is that way. Lost Faces … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ash, Chernobyl, Denial, Devour, Disaster, Endurance, Energy, Fallow, Hiroshima, Horror, Life, Nuclear, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Sacrifice, Soviet Russia, Truth, Ugly | Leave a comment

A Response To Naysaying Pill Pushing Slashers and Gassers

Posted on April 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 8’s challenge is to use the slang and jargon of a profession. It sort of runs in opposition of my day to day job’s admonishment to avoid jargon in favor of the familiar.. but who am I to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acute Thespian Syndrome, Arrested Development, Belief, Circling the Drain, Denial, Direction, Discovery, Doctors, England, Envelopement, Gasser, Jargon, Medical, Mind Body Connection, Na/GloPoWriMo, Normal For Norfolk, Patient, Photograph, Pill Push, pnuemoencephalopathy, Poem, Poetry, Recovery, Slasher, Teeth | Leave a comment

Two Shakes

Posted on March 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The warning was felt lingering in the air… Two Shakes by Michael Romani Two shakes Rattle snakes Warning’s in the air Tick tock Says the clock And soon the time’s not there Mirrored wall Cracked in awe Pride takes its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Clock, Congress, Crack, Deep, Denial, Empty, Fool, Imposition, Inquisition, Invitation, Irritation, Mirror, Phobia, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rattlesnake, Ride, School, Shake, Spoke, Style, Tick, Time, Unhappy, Victim, Warning | Leave a comment

Price of Pride

Posted on January 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Love of power breed ambition and that’s really not what we need in leaders. What we need is those who have vision and come to serve the people. Yet, that’s rarely the way of those interested in politics is it? … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambition, Blade, Bring, Claim, Dark, Dark Secret, Death, Deception, Defile, Denial, Desert, Dust, End, Evil, False, Fatal, Feel, Fend, Fustration, Glory, Greet, Hell, Immortality, Key, King, Knowledge, Left, Madness, Mortal, Mortality, Mystery, Mystic, Nowhere, Oracle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Price, Pride, Reaper, Sanskrit, Secret, Serve, Smile, Soul, Spell, Sun, Think, Trouble | 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

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

First Principles: Self Defense Is A Natural Right

Posted on April 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Self-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.” – John Locke (1632-1704)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Community, Denial, First Principles, Government, John Locke, Liberty, Life, Natural Law, Property, Right, Self Defense | Leave a comment