Tag Archives: Glass

Ode To An Orangutan In My Thoughts

Posted on December 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Friday was the Day of the Monkey. This brought to mind a certain event that happened maybe 12 or more years ago. I could not fact any references to this orangutan on the net so I could not completely flesh … Continue reading →

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Walking In Thankfulness

Posted on November 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem of thankfulness #13: Walking In Thankfulness by Michael Romani There in the goodness that is the God-ness That waltzes right past guilt into innocence With the grammar of faith we talk our talk Knowing that thankfully, we’ll walk … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amaze, Best, Contemplate, Deeds, Defer, Doubt, Dwelling Place, Face to Face, Faith, Forgive, Gammar, Gift, Giver, Glass, God, Good Purpose, Goodness, Gratitude, Guilt, Hand, Help, Humble, Innocence, Love Letter, Man, Mirror, Muddle, Needs, Notion, Pain, Pass, Photograph, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Points of Light, Preference, Prose, Redemption, Reptenance, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Taker, Talk, Thank, Thankfulness, Truth of God, Walk, Waltz, Ways, Woe | Leave a comment

Moved By Authenticity

Posted on November 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In this season of gratitude and humility, it is our prayer that we all be moved more by humility than ego and more toward love, away from hate. Moved by Authenticity by Michael Romani In that container of love we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Active Listening, Alter, Approach, Arrival, Authentic, Authenticity, Away, Bare, Being, Blessing, Build, Catastrophe, Commitment, Community, Container, Crayola, Crisis, Decrease, Diversity, Divine Respect, Ego, Empathy, Empowerment, Empty, Family, Felt, Free, Full, Glass, Gratitude, Grow, Half, Hate, Hues, Humans, Humility, Increase, Inner, Issue, Journey, Learn, Love, Me, Move, Neglect, Opportunity, Passion, Peaceful, Personality, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prayer, Refill, See, Soul, Stand, Step By Step, Strain, Stress, Survival, Together, Touch, Views, World, You | Leave a comment

A Gurnsey Tale

Posted on May 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Watched a movie that I think is bound to become a classic of our times. It was about a complicated and absolutely thought provoking movie that dealt with things as uncomplicated as love and war and what happens when the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Absurd, Balloon, Book, Ceiling, Feeling, Flower, Forsake, Frame, Glass, Gurnsey, Heart, Home, Humor, Kensington Garden, Love, Move, Photograph, Piety, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Question, Read, Shakespeare, Society, Soul, Start, Taking, View, War | Leave a comment

Neon Century

Posted on May 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Neon came and mostly went in the 20th Century. Neon lights and even neon knights have made their mark. But, like some other things in this age of rapid change, their time appears to have come and gone. Neon Century … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Ambition, Artisan, Artistic, Beacon, Blue, Broadway, Candle, Carbon Dioxide, Century, City, Decline, Electric, Elements, Gas, Glass, Glow, Handcraft, History, Illuminate, Krypton, Legacy, Light, Mass Production, Memory, Mercury, Modern Age, Neon, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetic, Poetry, Swagger, Tradition, Tube, White, Xenon | Leave a comment

Broken Sparrow Down

Posted on February 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A few couplets were spotted dancing across the page….Dedicated to those who recognize that suicide is among the top reasons for death in the United States and work so diligently to lower these numbers and give up to the tired, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Body, Borrow, Broken, Clown, Convention, Down, Dreamers, Fly, Glass, Good Intention, Happiness, Hell, Hope, Know, None, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Shatter, Sparrow, Stop, Story, Suicide, Tomorrow, Top, Toss | Leave a comment

Stranger To Myself

Posted on November 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Little something picked up on watching a horror show and thinking. I’m often guilty of thinking way too much. 😉 Stranger To Myself by Michael Romani Purest instincts undone A stranger to myself As divorced from me as from anyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adieu, Alone, Annihilation, Cast Down, Crack, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Distant, Doubt, Eternal, Evil, Face, Ghost, Glass, Gone, Goodbye, Hope, Hound of God, Inside, Instinct, Left, Life, Man In the Mirror, Me, Mirror, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Self, Shelf, Strain, Stranger, Time, Whisper | Leave a comment

A Glass House of Orchids

Posted on February 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

A Glass House of Orchids by Michael Romani If I could, I would start the day over and begin To go with my girls to that artsy green house again That is to say if they would let us back … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Bloom, Daughters, Examination, Feminine Wile, Fragrance, Glass, Greenhouse, Mortality, Orchids, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Smile, Symbolism, Vitality | Leave a comment

Glass Mirrors & Light

Posted on June 6, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Glass Mirrors and Light by Michael Romani Somewhere in the ether There lies a jaded nether The collage confuses As the actor refuses In a mirrored division With odd allusions of precision Joined to create a suspended feeling That leaves … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories, Poetry and Poems | Tagged Chagall, Collage, Creation, Glass, Light, Mirrors, Stained Glass | Leave a comment