Tag Archives: Depravity

Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight

Posted on April 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word | Leave a comment

Rise of the Common Man

Posted on March 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

This next in the series on American history expounds on the events of the rise of Jacksonian Democracy which is seen a pivotal as the era of the common man and precipitating the American Civil War. Rise of the Common … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abolition, Age, Alexis Tocqueville, America, American Civil War, American History, Andrew Jackson, Appeal, Ascend, Attention, Bible, Bindness, Brawl, Breath, Celibacy, Christianity, Clay, Common Man, Common Touch, Community, Comparison, Compulsive, Constitution, Cultural, Culture, Death, Declaration of Independence, Deism, Depravity, Devil, Dignity, Divine Soul, Elitsm, Emerson, Esteem, Europe, Evangelism, Family, Finney, Flame, Forge, Franchise, Frederick Douglas, Freedom, Frontiersman, Grace, Hawthorne, Human Pride, Impulsive, Inaguration, Ink, Intellectual, Jacksonian Democracy, John Quincy Adams, Literary, Mankind, Mass Democracy, Message, Moment, Mormonism, Muse, Nation, North, Nurture, Observation, Open Road, Original Sin, Pace, Paper, Perfection, Photograph, Pivot, Poem, Poetry, Politics of Deference, Populism, Preference, Presidency, Pronounce, Radical Humanism, Reality, Rise, Self Determinism, Self Made, Seminal, Slavery, Social Equality, Social Reform, Soul, Spiritual, Supernatural, Symptom, System, Tales, The American Scholar, The People, Top, Torment, Tragedy, Travel, Trinity, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Unitarianism, Unkindness, Untamed, Utopia, Vanguard, Walt Whitman, Wayside, William Lloyd Garrison, Wirtten, Write | Leave a comment

Change of View

Posted on October 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem# 13 – Ageless evil rejects the revolution fomented by his creature wishing instead to mold her into his image and not allow her own beast to be victorious. Change of View by Michael Romani The wild eyes of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ageless, Army, Bloodstin, Bore, Bread, Byzantine, Call, Catastrophe, Change, Clue, Crowd, Dark, Decadence, Depravity, Devil, Disappoint, Evil, Evolution, Fever, Guillotine, Halloween, Imp, Key, Know, Mastery, Mold, Nightmare, Noise, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revolution, Scream, Siren, Slice, Soul, Spoiled Child, Super-Man, Superior, Thrill, View, Wild Eyes, You | Leave a comment

Master of Lies

Posted on November 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There is one master of lies, though is ways and means are many. Master of Lies by Michael Romani The master of lies Speaks in his duplicity With seductive eyes He offers joyous depravity He is alluring in his sentiment … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agreement, Assent, Bargain, Consent, Contentment, Deception, Defense, Defer, Deliver, Depravity, Duplicity, Fool's Gold, Gain, Lies, Master, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Price, Redemption, Seduce, Sensation, Sentiment, Shining Stars, Shiver, Smile, Sold, Soul, Temptation | Leave a comment

A Dark Waltz

Posted on October 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Returning to the Halloween theme once again: A Dark Waltz by Michael Romani It seems that humans have always craved The horror and taste of the darkly depraved Massacre and slaughter in emboldened red Play on the hunger that riots … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Bloodlust, Crave, Dance, Death, Depravity, Echoes of the Past, Guilt, Hunger, Insane, Last Breath, Light, Master, Music, Pain, Photogrph, Poem, Poetry, Respectable, Spectacle, Sublime, Travesty, Truth, Tuth, Waltz | Leave a comment

First Principles: Falseness of Tongue Leads To Falseness of Heart

Posted on September 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Depravity, Disposition, Falsehood, First Principles, Heart, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue | Leave a comment

First Principles: Falseness of Tongue Leads To Falseness of Heart

Posted on July 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Contempt, Depravity, First Principles, Habit, Heart, Importance, Lies, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Truth, Untruth, Vice | 1 Comment

First Principles: Falseness of the Tongue Leads To Falseness of the Heart

Posted on June 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“He tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785) … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Depravity, Falsehood, First Principles, Honesty, Integrity, Liar, Thomas Jeferson, Wiisdom | Leave a comment

First Principles: Be Unshakeable In Telling the Truth

Posted on May 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Depravity, First Principles, Habit, Heart, Integrity, Lie, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Truth | Leave a comment

Jump On In

Posted on May 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Based on John 3:14-15 Jump On In by Michael Romani Jump on in, the water’s fine It purifies you with every line Whosoever lives as a believer Stands firm against the deceiver Living life fully and ever lasting Redeemed we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belief, Believer, Book of John, Cross, Deceiver, Depravity, God's Face, Human Race, Jesus, Narrow Gates, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Purity, Redemption, Understanding | Leave a comment

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Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight

Change of View

A Dark Waltz

First Principles: Falseness of Tongue Leads To Falseness of Heart

First Principles: Falseness of Tongue Leads To Falseness of Heart

First Principles: Falseness of the Tongue Leads To Falseness of the Heart

First Principles: Be Unshakeable In Telling the Truth

Jump On In

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