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This Is Not True Victory
This Is Not True Victoryby Michael DoyleIn memory of Queen Lili‘uokalani I declare this is not a true victoryWhen back in the year of 1893The United States overthrew her monarchyDespite the wrongness of things doneShe did not choose the white … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 1893, A People and A Nation, Apology, Authority, Battle, Cleansing Way, Constitutional Sovereignty, Dennis Kanahele, Dignity, Federal Recognition, Free Hawai'i, Freedom, Guns, Homes, Hope, Hour, Islands, Kanaka Maoli, Legislation, Live, Manifest Destiny, Milatancy, Monarchy, Native Community, Notion, Overthrow, Person's Station, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Power, President McKinley, Queen Lili‘uokalani, Rerservation, Self-Determinatoin, Sins of Man, Survive, The People, Tourist Destination, Tribe, True Heart, True Victory, United States, Voices, Voices of God, Wrongness
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Thought of the Day: This Grand Show Is Eternal. It Is Always Sunrise Somewhere.
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Always, Continents, Dawn, Dew, Dry, Earth, Eternal, Falling, Gloam, Grand Show, Islands, John Muir, Rise, Roll, Sea, Shower, Sunrise, Sunset, Thought For the Day, Turn, Vapor
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Parallel Parking Haibun
Poem A Day #5 has the Haibun as it’s form. The word prompt is ‘parallel’. That led to some creative thinking on my part. What does one write about with parallel.. geography or basic driving…. “A Haibun = a prose … Continue reading
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Tagged Blank Spot, Blind Faith, Experience, Faith, Gratitude, Haibun, Haiku, Islands, Journey, Judgment, Lessons, Life, Mainland, Nail, Parallel, Parallel Park, Poem A Day #5, Poetry, Prose Poem, Seams, Strain, Surf, Teen
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Tropical Escape
A look at the modern world’s return toward tiki culture: Tropical Escape by Michael Romani A masquerade of loosened ties Relaxes into forgetting the rat race The escapism of tropical alibis Whispers acceptable excuses for feeling out of place A … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Chronic Stress, Counterpoint, Escape, Escapism, Existential Threat, Islands, Masquerade, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polynesian, Simplify, Smugglers, Tales of the South Pacific, Test, Tiki, Trader Vic, Tropical, Tropical Drink
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Mohala Tutu Pele
Mohala Tutu Pele by Michael Romani With great and sudden power Pele arrives announcing Like a blossoming flower Passionately pronouncing That as mother of her family She breathes within her fragility Creation as one within destination Freely taking while giving … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acacia Koa, Ancestor, Deity, Eruption, Geology, Hawai'i, Hula, Islands, Laka, Lehua Tree, Lineage, Mohala, Myth, Ocean, Paradise, Pele, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Regeneration, Sacred, Tutu, Volcano
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Scribble and A Scratch
Scribble and A Scratch by Michael Romani With a scribble and a scratch My words flow together Sometimes in prose; sometimes in verse Hopefully, for the better Always filled with hope That I might have something to say Just keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Daughters, Dim, Education, Faded, Flow, Home, Hope, Islands, Jaded, Legacy, Love, Meaning, Perfect Wave, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prose, Scribble and A Scratch, Sunrise, University, Verse, Words
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 