Tag Archives: Hope

Thought For the Day: Rest, Nature, Books, Music and Love For One’s Neighbor Bring Happiness

Posted on June 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Books, Country, Do Good, Family Happiness, Happiness, Hope, Leo Tolstoy, Life, Love, Music, Nature, Neighbor, Quiet, Rest, Thought For the Day, Usefulness, Work | Leave a comment

Put Quite Simply

Posted on June 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes mistakes, even huge mistakes happen. I think this has lately become a sticking point to and for me. I will never be perfect and sometimes am in need of forgiveness. Doesn’t mean I don’t regret my errors. It means … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Avalanche, Believe, Ben Franklin, Consistency, Correct, Credibility, Deep, Discern, Dumb, Forgive, Heal, Heartbreak, Hope, Humor, Hurt, Imperfect, Intention, Keep, Know, Learn, Love, Misstep, Mistake, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Promise, Rising Sun, See, Show, Simple, Sorrow, Talk, Time, Tomorrow, True, Turn, Twist, Wisdom, Yesterday | Leave a comment

In the Middle of…

Posted on June 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Life is what happens when you’re making plans about plans you’ve been making while others unravel and well.. ummm Life Happens! Flow with it and grow! In the Middle of… Michael Romani Life.. is as beautiful Sometimes.. even wonderful Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Beautiful, Believe, Blessing, Breath of Life, Capability, Choice, Connection, Cry, Dream, Dying, Faith, Fear, Flow, Focus, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, Gratitude, Grow, Happen, Healing, Hope, Infinite, Joy, Laugh, Life, Live, Living, Love, Mission, Moment, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Remission, Sigh, Strive, True, Voice, Wonderful, You | Leave a comment

Disintegration Apology

Posted on June 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

As God reminds me often, I am indeed a work in progress. I do my best to be a good or at least decent man. But, I am fairly flawed, right? Disintegration Apology by Michael Romani In the midst of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apology, Candy Store, Disintegration, Fail, Flaw, Hope, Integration, Jester, Kid, King, Lack, Lost, Love, Love Song, Make Up, Mystery, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Tear Drops, True, Void, Want, Work In Progress | Leave a comment

Even To This Day

Posted on May 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on a life lived between worlds and still finding hope and dreaming dreams… Even To This Day by Michael Romani It was a dark night The darkest night And you were crying And I was crying And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bills, Blindness, Bottle, Box, Chain, Change, Choice, Compel, Complain, Cross, Cry, Dark Night, Day, Different Hand, Dreaming, Driven, Drunk, Dying, Eye, Fire, Forgiven, Free Will, Friend, Glisten, God, Holy, Hope, Kindness, Knees, Lean On, Life, Listen, Lord, Love, Madness, Man Must Do, Mercy, Numb, Overwhelm, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push On Through, Rain, Seek, Smoke, Soul, Stay, Thirst, Understand, Voice, Wish | Leave a comment

Some Would Be Heroes

Posted on May 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Some are scared of their own shadows. Others would be heroes. Which are you? Some Would Be Heroes by Michael Romani Some think darkness Is the absence of light Seen in the starkness It is not the absence of light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Brightness, Cost, Darkness, Happiness, Hero, Hope, Light, Lost, Need, New, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rightness, Scare, Seed, Shadow, Sorrow, Stark, Tomorrow, True, Truth | Leave a comment

Adulting Conversation

Posted on May 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger. Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”… Adulting Conversation by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Adult, Adulting, Change, Communication, Construction, Conversation, Danger, Deal, Fascination, Fix, Future, Hope, Insult, Introduction, Keep It Real, Language, Linguist, Live and Learn, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Risk, Rope, Talk, Tic, Turn, Verbal Punch, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: Beware of Too Many High Sounding Words Absent Accompanying Actions

Posted on April 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.” – Abigail Adams

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abigail Adams, Actions, Correspond, Difficutl, Expectation, Few, Fire, First Principles, High Sounding, Hope, Noble, Ouselves, Private Ambition, Public Wellbeing, Quench, Sacrifice, Souls, Task, Undertaking, Words | Leave a comment

Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield

Posted on April 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success | Leave a comment

A Vancouverite Current

Posted on April 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth | Leave a comment