Tag Archives: Down

Thought For the Day: When It Rains On Your Parade, Look Up Rather Than Down. Without the Rain, There Would Be No Rainbow

Posted on June 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“(W)hen it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Down, Gilbert K Chesterton, No Rainbow, Parade, Rain, Thought For the Day, Up, Without Rain | Leave a comment

Something Somehow Selfish Worn

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Cor.10:31: Something Somehow Selfish Worn by Michael Doyle There is something selfish in loving the Lord Because He loves us and we’re looking forward To that fellowship we feel here and up above And know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Always, Ambassador, Astray, Best, Best Days, Best Things, Bittersweet, Blessing, Breath, Call, Chains, Church, Complex, Connect, Crown, Dare, Day, Death, Depth, Despite, Destination, Distraction, Down, Drag, Dreams, Embrace, Escape, Essence, Eternal, Face, Fascination, Father, Feel, Fellowship, First Corinthians, Flow, Foot of the Cross, Forward, Free, Gain, Gather, Get Back Up, Give, Glory, God, God Given, Grace, Grateful, Gratitude, He, Hear, Heaven, His Story, Holy Spirit, Human, Integrity, Light, Listen, Live Right, Living, Lord, Lose, Loss, Love, Name, Never Quit, Obstacles, Passing, Path, Patient, Pattern, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Pressing On, Prodigal Son, Requirement, Return, Right Attitude, See, Selfish, Set Free, Simple, Somehow, Something, Struggle, Tears, Thankful, Things of Life, Total, Truth, Vain, Way, Winning, Wisdom, Wrong Turn, Years, Yoke | Leave a comment

Like Mercury Colliding

Posted on April 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s day 16 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, 2020! What’s the challenge you ask? “…to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Andalusian, Angel, Car, Challenge, Coffee, Coincide, Collide, Compliment, Cream, Cry, Curl, Daily, Days, Desire, Desperate, Divine, Down, Dream, Empty, Eyes, Fate, Fire, Glam, Glammer, Goddess, High, Horse, Love, Mercury, Mine, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noise, One, Over-the-Top, Photograph, Plenty, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reasons, Ride, Sky, Sledge Hammer, Source, Spam, Spammer, Speak, Stage Struck, Stars, Straight Up, Sun, Tears, Tire, Toes, Top of the World, Volumes, Waited, Why, Wire, Wise, Without, Wonder, Word | Leave a comment

Silence Is Our Reply

Posted on April 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What was once thought the end is but the beginning and all the words make no difference when silence is our final reply. Silence Is our Reply by Michael Doyle In the black and white of integration There is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angel, Anger, Backward, Be, Begin, Black, Bosom, Breath, Caculate, Castle, Cheapen, Chi, Collapse, Crown, Crumble, Danger, Death, Devil, Die, Differnce, Down, Dread, Empahsis, End, Energy, Eye, Fail, Fear, Feel, Fickle, Float, Forward, Free Fall, Ghost, God, Good, Hemispheres, Ill, Insinuation, Integration, Left, Living, Look, Museum, Nemesis, Nobility, Norm, One Side, Outcome, Outgun, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Rain Storm, Reality, Reason, Recall, Reply, Right, Run, Season, See, Self, Silence, Stone, Stumble, Thought, Time, Torn, Toward, Tower, Trace, Unafraid, Whirlpool, White, Wonder, Word | Leave a comment

The Veil Falls

Posted on February 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

That first sight. You heart either implodes into the chemistry of it all. Or, you sink into yourself and wonder at the missing spark. Still, what an amazing concept to be resting in words alone and faith that true love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Bended Knee, Bliss, Butterfly, Down, Dreams, Excite, Expect, Fall, Feel, Figure of Speech, First of Show, First Sight, First Time, Happiness, Honest, Invite, Kiss, Knots, Magic, Melt, Neglect, Nervous, Other, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Promises, Reach, Ready, Real, Right, See, Soul, Spiral, Steady, Stir, Touch, True Beauty, Tumble, Veil | Leave a comment

Architectural Abstractions

Posted on December 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Lost my list of days celebrated in December, soooo… I am pitch hitting with this one: Architectural Abstractions by Michael Romani There in the art of geometry The spatial relationship is everything Crystalized rocks bend into symmetry Organizing rugged bits … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Accentuate, Architect, Art, Blend, Breathe, Building, Capability, Capacity, Choice, Conception, Concrete, Design, Down, Dream, Filter, Fully Being, Geometry, Hand In Hand, Masterpiece, Mind, Natural Light, New World, Nothing, Obscure, Overlap, Parabolic, Participate, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Science, Scope, Something, Spatial, Spectator, Symmetry, Understand, Walls | Leave a comment

In the Tall Grass

Posted on October 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #28 In the Tall Grass by Michael Romani It’s there in the tall grass Out in the muck and mire That tall, tall grass That feeds on your desire Never letting you pass Out there in the tall, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Alright, Bluff, Comfort, Crown, Cycle, Desire, Discern, Doubt, Down, Fact, Fear, Feed, Forget, Forgiveness, Found, Give, Giving, Grass, Grief, Ground, Halloween, Hold On, Jester, Keep, Lay, Learn, Lesson, Letting Go, Live, Love, Mire, Muck, Natural, Nothing, Our, Out, Outlive, Pass, Past, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Puzzle, Real Man, Redemption, Regret, Sacred Heart, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Search, Secret, Self, Selfless, Simple, Suffice, Sympathy, Tall, Tight, Token, True, Truth, Unnatural, Want, Youth | Leave a comment

Tears In Misted Eyes

Posted on October 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #21: Tears In Misted Eyes by Michael Romani Tears in his misted eyes A monster cries as his child dies While the mother prays her lullaby It’s all the watcher can do to sigh Life like a twisted … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anguish, Blade, Blind, Breath, Broken Heart, Child, Choice, Confusion, Cross, Crucifix, Cruel, Cry, Deep, Dies, Down, Dying, Echo, Enfold, Eyes, Family, Father, Fear, Feel, Halloween, Hand, Hard, Heaven, Hesitate, Illusion, Keep, Kill, Lies, Life, Lord, Loss, Lullaby, Misstep, Mist, Moment, Monster, Monstrosity, Mother, Night, Perservere, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Pray, Question, Reel, Revere, Sacred, Shown, Sigh, Silence, Sleep, Souls, Suffer, Tear, Temper, Troubled Soul, True, Voice, Weep, World, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

Retribution For Frailty

Posted on July 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sadists like to kick people when they’re down. Turn to multiple forums from Facebook to otherwise and you see people constantly tearing at each other and doing this for the good of the other. Interesting how we convince ourselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Broken, Brutality, Cave, Comfort, Community, Corrupt, Cruelty, Damage Done, Dare, Desire, Desparation, Down, Eyes, Fester, Frailty, Good, Humilation, Kick, Know, Lie, Menace, Pain, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Punish, Refuse, Repressed, Retribution, Sadist, Savage, Save, Sting, Suffer, Torture, Truth, Vain, Vengeance, Vulnerable | Leave a comment

Straight Up, No Chaser

Posted on June 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I am so far down right now that my chin up is just going to have to wait for some other day. Straight Up, No Chaser by Michael Romani Straight up, no chaser I know I can’t replace her I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Beautiful, Beauty, Better Man, Chaser, Down, Dream, Fire, Good Enough, Heart Break, Hide, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Shame, Sorrow, Straight Up | Leave a comment