Tag Archives: Facade

Probability and History

Posted on September 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Probability and Historyby Michael DoyleThe past indicates the probability,And the rest, as they say, is history.We learn these things with humility.The passing days become our legacy.The mercantile types take life without any need.The wise take this into account and pay … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blad Luck, Crumble, Facade, Greed, History, Humility, Legacy, Mercantile Types, Need, Neon Signs, Passing Days, Pay Heed, Poetry and Poems, Probability, Read, Stumble, Subway Walls, The Past, The Wise, Warning, Words | Leave a comment

For Our Living Cares

Posted on July 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

For Our Living Caresby Michael DoylePrayer is not even in the least bitTo be prayed like the hypocritesTo preach or to pray; it’s easier to sayWhat it is to put your beliefs in playIt’s not the facade but in keeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidents, Beliefs, Bible, Console, Daily Life, Destination, Difference, Expectations, Expected, Facade, False Desires, Feel, Forgot, Fullness, Gilded Rules, God's Ways, Godly Things, Hearts, Heed, Holy Relationship, Hypocrites, In Play, Instead, Keeping It Real, Lion's Den, Listen, Live, Living Cares, Living the Truth, Need, Neglected, Our Inheritance, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Preach, Private Conversation, Reluctance, Righteous Love, Sough, Souls, Speak, Spoon Fed Fools, Startled Moments, Theology, Treasure, Truth of Love, Wake Up, World's Sin, Worship, Wrong Things | Leave a comment

Woken Facade

Posted on June 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There are times and places filled with spaces when you see there is a lot of darkness behind smiling faces…Sometimes in those places, you make mistakes you wish you could take back and cannot. Woken Façade by Michael Romani As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Bleed, Charm, Dance, Dante's Inferno, Dark, Deception, Devil, Dream, Everyone, Facade, Fail, Fear, God, Harm, Heartbreak, Heresy, Infinite, Mask, Mercy, Mistake, Myself, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relent, Repent, Seem, Soul, Task, Trick, Woke, Wrong | Leave a comment

Echo Chambers of Disbelief

Posted on March 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Beware the monsters under our beds.. but worse still are the monsters just behind the veneer we casually wear…. Echo Chambers of Disbelief by Michael Romani In a thousand seedy places There are monsters behind faces Playing cleverly as saying … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Cancer, Chamber, Chase, Choke, Clever, Commotion, Dancer, Death, Depth, Disaster, Disbelief, Dream, Dreamer, Echo, Emotion, Facade, Face, Friend, Grace, Grief, Illusion, Irony, Know, Life Dream, Monster, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Seedy Place, Shallow, Stillborn | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 23: In A World Without God

Posted on April 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 23 and the challenge is to write something pertinent to the incorporation of spoken word overheard or part of the fabric of surrounding society. In that all language more or less falls under these broad categories, I selected … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cleft, Crumble, Facade, God, Infamy, Lesson, Mention, Outlaw, Poem, Poetry, Shatter, Tyranny, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Dishonest People Are Often So With Straight Faces

Posted on February 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, Conventional, Dishonesty, Eye to Eye, Facade, Face to Face, Known, Thought For the Day, Unknowns | Leave a comment

Calling Out Your Name

Posted on October 1, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Calling Out Your Name by Michael Romani I might be retreating But, my heart’s still beating Calling out your name Tell me, can you feel me? No, I mean, the real me As I call out your name I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Facade, Love, Muse, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Questions, Real Me | Leave a comment

Intimacy of Connection

Posted on July 1, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Intimacy of Connection by Michael Romani There in the camera’s click Is that silent subtle trick It rests in an intimacy That to be put quite delicately Is an intimacy of connection Brought by the artist’s dedication A dedication of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Second Life | Tagged Camera, Connection, Dedication, Duty, Empathy, Facade, Intimacy, Life, Poems, Poetry, Second Life, Truth | Leave a comment