Tag Archives: Hope

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

A Pillow’s Talk of Things

Posted on April 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The ninth day of Na/GloPoWriMo is based on the lists found in Sei Shonagon’ s The Pillow Talk. As the hour has grown later than I had hoped and only just recently finished a show along with a late dinner and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adore, Attention, Attitude, Beast, Beloved, Best, Best Intention, Breeze, Bring, Busy Day, Care, Chase, Chase Circles, Cloud, Confide, Confusion, Conquer, Cry, Delight, Depression, Despise, Difference, Diffidence, Enchantment, Eye to Eye, Face, Fascination, Find, Fruits, Game, God's Daughter, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heart, Heart Sing, Hope, Hour, Imagination, Impression, Intention, Keep, Knowledge, Known, Lady Love, Last, Late, Laughter, Lifetimes, Love, Memory, Mesmerize, Mind, Moon, Na/GloPoWriMo, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Power, Precious, Prove, Pure, Questions, Raindrop, Reason Why, Rendition, Respect, Rule, Save, Sei Shonagon, Share, She, Sigh, Smile, Solitary Power, Soul, Sparkle, Spell Caster, Tantalize, Tear, Tears, Test, The Pillow Talk, Thought, Times, Tree House, Trouble, Upset, Voice, Vow, Way, Word, Words | Leave a comment

Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down | Leave a comment

A Prairie Sky’s Truth

Posted on April 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes seeing things differently is mental illness; sometimes it’s seeing things differently. A show I was watching at the suggestion of a person who is increasingly important to me portrayed that in an interesting bit that I have attempted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Anticipation, Behind, Blind, Blue, Cancer, Candle, Delusion, Different, Disappear, Disturb, Dream, Drown, Expectation, Eyes, Find, Free, Grow, Help, Home, Hope, Illusion, Kid, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Long, Lost, Love, Mediate, Medicate, Melody, Mental Illness, Mind, Night, Numb, Pain, Passing Year, Person, Perspective, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Prairie Sky, Pray, Question, Return, Reverent, Say, Science, Sense, Signs, Silent Scream, Sleep, Society, Strong, Think, Treat, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Words, You and I | Leave a comment