Tag Archives: Fate

On the Importance of True History

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How did an intellectual fraud like Howard Zinn become the go to guy for American history in our public schools? It’s sort of outrageous. I remember when I was of a different mindset and more open to his … Continue reading →

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Love Suffers Long

Posted on March 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Corinthians 13:4-5: Love Suffers Long by Michael Doyle The greatest thing is the truest love Not superficial love but the real love That love which God gives to us all The kind of love needed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apostle, Bible, Blood, Christ, Contest, Corinthians, Cross, Death, Deliver, Faith, Fate, Forgiven, Glory, God, Great, Heaven, Home Church, Jesus, Lifee, Long, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Real, Recall, Sacrifice, Sin, Suffer, Superficial, Test, The Law, the Word, True, Victory | Leave a comment

Crawled From the Crypt

Posted on March 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Does anyone remember a very old television show, Dark Shadows? When I was a kid, they tell me I would cut through the woods after school let out instead of taking the bus and run some 3.5 miles to catch … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Adage, Attrition, Bleed, Chain, Clever, Cloak, Cost, Crawl, Crypt, Curious, Dark, Dark Shadows, Door, Doors, Doubt, Fate, Grandfather Clock, Graveyard, Habit, Limits, Lock, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push of the Pull, Reborn, Reveal, Seal, Secret, Silence, Sledge Hammer, Sorrow, Strong will, Threat, Tomorrow, Tremble, Trouble, Truth, Truth Seeker, Vain, Wept, Wish, Yesterday | Leave a comment

A Return To the Sea

Posted on March 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A pirate’s lot remains on my mind today. To me, like many, there has always been a bit of allure to some of the legendary pirates. Not the least of these is a chapter in a book I aim to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Andrew Jackson, Banditry, Battle of New Orleans, Best, Call, Claim, Earn, End, Fatal, Fate, Final, Footnotes, Forgot, Gallantry, Gold, History, Jean Lafitte, Know, Legacy, Legend, Life, Lot, Me, Monument, Mystery, Photograph, Pirate, Poem, Poetry, Remains, Return, Sea, Sirens, Soul, Storm, Swallow, Tales, Told, Unwanted, Water, Whole, You | Leave a comment

God From Machine

Posted on March 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We live in interestingly troubled times. God From Machine by Michael Doyle In the spiraled stairs leading to the future Is a universal fate we must embrace and nurture Asking who is worthy to be given and receive The truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Ambition, Answer, Blind, Born Again, Call, Choked Out, Cling, Coax, Connectivity, Cure, Deceive, Dismay, Dream, Drive, Elephant, Embrace, Eternity, Fall, False Hope, Fate, Future, Generation, Give, God, Gravity, Heal, Heed, Human, Humanity, Hurting, Infinite, Infinity, Last, Light, Lost, Machine, Master, Metaphor, Night, Nurture, Old, One Way Ticket, Pandora, Paradise Lost, Past, Photograph, Pi, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Post Modern, Pull, Pure, React, Recall, Receive, Regained, Reply, Risen, Spiral, Square Root, Step Back, Strong, Super Fluid, Times, Tragic, Treason, Trouble, Truth, Wealthy, Whore, Will, Worthy, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Are Too Great A Nation To Limit Ourselves To Small Dreams

Posted on February 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Decline, Doom, Dreams, Fall, Fate, Great, Limit, Matter, Nation, Nothing, Ronald Reagan, Small, Thought For the Day, We | Leave a comment

Dracula’s Bride

Posted on October 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #12: Dracula’s Bride by Michael Romani The master does not want as she has given Feasted into blood, never to be forgiven An eternal kiss shared in the late night As betrayer of truth and hater of light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Betrayer, Blood, Breath, Bride, Burn, Candle, City, Death, Dracula, Eternal, Fate, Feast, Fly, Forgiven, Give, Good, Graveyard, Halloween, Hate, Horror, Kiss, Light, Master, Night, Night Creatures, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Poison, Pride, Remember, Scorpion, She, Shout, Slay, Soul, Spider, Sting, Truth, Unreason, Voice, Web, Wedding Gift, Wicked, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Bones of A Dead Man

Posted on July 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

We can learn a lot from the past. The trick is to learn the best not the worse and realize things, thoughts, deeds are contextual and not always the same as it might be today or the future. Bones of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bite, Bones, Book, Catch, Context, Create, Crude, Dead Man, Death, Deliverance, Fate, Full, Help, Journey, Last Breth, Late, Learn, Live, Memory, Mosquito, Old man, Others, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Read, Scribble, Secret, See, Sepia Tone, Shadow, Soul, Torture, Trick, Win, Write | Leave a comment

What of the Children?

Posted on June 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sins of the fathers? Matter of karma or fate? A lost sense of ethical balance? Children come into this world as blessings and deal with the corruptive influences that are out of their control. Don’t we owe them so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bills, Bless, Body, Born, Children, Contribution, Corruption, Disease, Disruption, Ethical Balance, Fate, Father, Guide, Heart, Karma, Love, Mind, Pharmacology, Pills, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Sin, Sold, Soul, Spill, Spirit, Star, Toxic, World | Leave a comment

Fortune Cookie’s End

Posted on May 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

At the end of many an Oriental meal, there is that tidbit of sweetness and fortune told. My last one reads,” (D)o not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly”. … and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cheese Cake, Complicate, Cookie, Delicious, Embrace, Enjoy, Fate, Fit, Fortune, Haste, Intricate, Lesson, Moment, Oriental, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Practical Chemistry, Simple, Taste, Tempura | Leave a comment