Tag Archives: Fall

Sometimes It Seems

Posted on July 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes it seems… https://flic.kr/p/2gtuETX Sometimes It Seems by Michael Romani Sometimes it seems It’s a life of broken dreams Falling apart at the seams Dams busted, flooding streams I just can’t find my way Back to our yesterday That I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Breath, Broken Dreams, Call, Castle, Conceive, Dark, Deep, Do, Fall, Fall Apart, False Reason, Heaert, Hurtt, Light, Moon, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Pray, Real, Seams, Seems, Sinner, Sometimes, Sorrow, Stay, Sunshine, Tease, Tomorrow, True, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Fallen Through Time

Posted on June 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Life continues its lessons, it seems. Fallen Through Time by Michael Romani Sometimes it’s an alien world In which my flag is unfurled Bravely proclaiming my stance Feeling the sting of each lost chance Beckoned into the 21st century I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Alien, Apology, Bother, Burn, Confession, Destination, Fall, Heartbreak, History, Hurt, Learn, Lesson, Life, Out of Control, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Soul, Soul Shake, Stance, Sting, Sublime, Time, Train, Whisper | Leave a comment

Falling Up

Posted on May 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

They say that opposites, often attract. Maybe that’s so? Falling Up by Michael Romani Two souls separated at birth Filled with hope well worth Falling up to rise down Love leaves both feet on the ground Secrets passed down in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Betters, Birth, Cloud Line, Collide, Different, Down, Dream, Fall, Find, Gravity, Hold, Image, Laughter, Love, One, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reverent, Rise, Secrets, Soul, Together, True Desire, Two, Up, Worse, Worth | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Arlington (Memorial Day 2019)

Posted on May 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

America has never been so seemingly divided since our Civil War. Thoughts On Arlington by Michael Romani With so many jokes out to rewrite history It really isn’t much of a mystery That our nation barely stands divided With too … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1865, All, America, Appomattox, Arliington, Blood, Brother, Cemetery, Civil War, Divided, Eternal Flame, Fall, First Principles, Freedom, George Washington, God's Creation, Greatness, Heroes, Home, Honor, Lesson Learned, Memorial Day 2019, Nation, No Greater Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revisionist History, Rite, Robert E Lee, Sister, Slaughter, Thought, Undivided, War, We The People, Wound | 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

In A Question of Liberty

Posted on April 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this second day of Na/GloPoWriMo, we are invited to explore writing a poem that avoids closure by providing the open end of the question. I believe that as an invitation to explore a significant question raised by a far … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Broken, Carry On, Chose, Clever, Colonist, Conviction, Cost, Depiction, Derision, Destination, Embed, Endeavor, Extraordinary, Fall, Freedom, Gift, God, Greatness, Heresy, History, Keep, Liberty, Loss, Lost, Mankind, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Ordinary, Origin, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Risen, Secure, Society, Spoken, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Truth, Vision, World | Leave a comment

First Reasons Lost

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

What becomes of our individual worlds when our first reasons are lost? First Reasons Lost by Michael Romani First reasons have been lost And with that loss comes a cost The giving up when it becomes Too much to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusations, Another, Busy Day, Call, Closed Eyes, Cold, Compassion, Conception, Cost, Dare, Demanding, Doubt, Down, Dreams, Drown, Fall, Fear, First Reason, Giving up, Good Lord, Gray, Imagine, Inquisition, Lashing Out, Listen, Lost, Love, Matter, Miraclees, Nightmare, Numb, Other, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Real, Requisition, Reveal, Rope, See, Self Inflict, Shatter, Snare, Snowfall, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Trap, True Light, Understanding, Voyage, Water, Winter, World | Leave a comment

Walk Alone

Posted on February 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

When Satan fell to the Earth, he did not fall alone. It takes that one brave enough to stand against these forces of evil… Walk Alone by Michael Romani When Satan fell from heaven He did not fall alone In … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Alone, Darkness, Embrace, Fall, Fallacy, Fold or Stand, Free, Hand, Heart of Stone, Heartbreak, Heaven, Hope, Kind, Light, Mistake, Photograph, Plain, Poetry, Possible, Satan, See, Silly, Throne, Tragedy, Truth, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Way of Truth and Love Has Always Won

Posted on February 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Despair, End, Fall, History, Invincible, Love, Mohandas Gandhi, Murderer, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth, Tyrant, Won | Leave a comment

Who Do You Say That I am?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 15:16: Who Do You Say That I Am? by Michael Romani Sometimes stigmatized by the visual Here in this age of consuming digital I see what my eyes choose to see Wondering if it’s with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acuity, Alone, Apart, Approval, Blind, Book of Matthew, Broken, Certainty, Clear, Confidence, Crack, Creativity, Deflection, Digital, Disguise, Distraction, Eye, Eyes, Fall, False Assumption, Foolishness, God, Gravity, Heart, Hide, Imperfection, Impression, Jacked Up, Jesus, Kindness, Knee Jerk Reaction, Levitate, Lost, Love, Measure, Mind, Mirror, Negativity, One Half, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presumption, Promise, Recall, Renew, Rust, Soul, Stigma, Stone, Strong, Toss, Treasure, Trouble, Trust, Visual, Warrior, Weak, Wisdom | Leave a comment