Tag Archives: History

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 →

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Memory Inspires the Future

Posted on March 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apology, Atrocity, Better, Consequence, Crimes Against Humity, Cultural Amnesia, Dignity, Dwell, Equa;ity, Evade, Forgive, France, Fratenrity, Free, Freedom, Future, Grievance, Guadaloupe, History, Humanism, Inspire, Isle, Legacy, Les Colons, Memory, Moving Forward, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconciliation, Sidestep, Slavery, Slight, Stain, Sugar Factory | Leave a comment

Human 2.0

Posted on March 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Admittedly, two poems on the same topic in the same day isn’t my usual style. That being said, as I was looking at concept of what it means for the human race that money might well buy its way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A-mortal, Anxiety, Biology, Cerebral, Commonplace, Complexity, Console, Cry Wolf, Dignity, Eternity, Ethics, Extend, Faithless, Fear, Fifth Avenue, Funeral, Generation, History, Human 2.0, Human Being, Human Race, Immortal, Infinity, Lean, Legacy, Lifetime, Living, Lordship, Loss, Mistake, Narcissist, Natural Limits, Nature, Nomenclature, Pages, Pain, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rethink, Sad, Science, Service, Soul, Span, Sublime, Superior, Tarnish, Tattoo, Technology, Theology, Tremble, Veneration, Worship | Leave a comment

Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai | Leave a comment

Things I’m Learning From You

Posted on March 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to all those I like and love however imperfectly… Things I’m Learning From You by Michael Romani I’ve long sought my authenticity Pursuing it with great integrity Only to find that in the much I believed I was too … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Begun, Beileve, Calvary, Checkered Past, Cherish, Clarity, Close, Deceived, Fell, Forgive, Gaffe, Gain, Grew, History, Hurt, Ignorance, Imperfect, Indecision, Integrity, Intimacy, Knew, Laugh, Learn, Love, Memory, Mind, Monkey, Morning, Night, One, Pain, Pajama Party, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sincere, Sleepless, Smile, Soul, Sun, Surprise, Twenty Questions, Two, Words, You | Leave a comment

A Study On Passover

Posted on March 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Some have accused me of being a fool for God…. To them, I reply. Why yes, thank you, I am… but I am your fool. Dedicated to God and to serving my fellow humanity. It matters not how little … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Day, Destination, Donkey, Egypt, Evening, Family, Feast, God, History, Hosanna, King of Kings, Legacy, Memory, Messiah, Mount Olive, Pages, Palm Leaves, Palm Sunday, Passover, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prophecy, Proverb, Sacred, Sermon on the Mount, Slavery, Study, Talk, Tribulation, Unfold, Unleavened Bread, Walk | Leave a comment

The Truth of the Present

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World | Leave a comment

Secular Ideal

Posted on February 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

To hear the communists and socialists tell it the 20th Century must have been the advent of civilization as they and the secularists strove to drive God out of the public square and it was sheer coincidence that it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Believers, Chord, Deaf, Deceivers, Dogma, Doom, Doubt, Gloom, God Is Dead, Godless, History, Human Being, Ideal, Ignorance, Illusion, Lovers of Truth, Mankind, Meaning, Misery, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Risk, Rule, Santification, Secular, Self Deception, Self-Inflicted, Unintentional, Victims, Wisdom | Leave a comment

First Principles: Democracies Are Short Lived Before These Waste, Exhaust and Die By Their Own Hands

Posted on February 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” – John Adams Incidentally, the US is not a Democracy. It’s become that both major parties keep misstating this case over and over again. The plain and very … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Demcoracy, Exhaust, First Principles, History, John Adams, Long, Murder, Waste | Leave a comment

Revelations No. 2

Posted on February 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Cor 15:24 : Revelations No. 2 by Michael Romani Caught up in the end days thundering Lost up in speculation and wondering We find ourselves looking for redemption Seeking this out in our stark contemplation … Continue reading →

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