Tag Archives: Join

Tilting Mental Windmills

Posted on February 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On bad days, I awake wondering if maybe Don Quixote wasn’t on to something in his belief of pursuing impossible dreams. Other days, I dare to dream these. Tilting Mental Windmills by Michael Romani Captured frames from your window Map … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Awake, Better, Beyond, Blink, Blur, Bound, Brain Fog, Brave, Brave New World, Cherish, Collaborator, Cornucopia, Corridor, Curious, Cut, Dare, Daze, Deception, Decisions, Don Quixote, Door, Early, Embrace, Everyone, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Feign, Flow, Fragments, Frames, Glory, Grip, Hands, Hope, Humanity, Impossible Dreams, Join, Kung Fu, Last, Late, Learn, Life, Life After Death, Lose, Map, Mental, Mind, Moment, Musician, Pain, Perception, Photograph, Plead, Poems, Poetry, Pose, Preference, Puzzle, Riff, Story, Subject, Surly, Tears, Thrill, Tilt, Time, Together, Too Far, Twenty First Century, Walk, Will, Win, Windmills, Window, Wonder, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: Those Born In Other Countries Have the Right To Join American Society As Long As They Conform To Our Established Rules

Posted on January 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” – Thomas … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acknowledge, Born, Conform, Country, Established Rules, First Principles, Join, Law, Society, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Music of the Night

Posted on October 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #20: Music of the Night by Michael Romani Creatures of the night Make such music don’t they? Listen closely until first light To the things that make the undead happy The vampire lord finds love tragic As it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Change, Choice, Creature, Day, Destiny, Dracula, Fight, First Light, Force, Glow, Halloween, Happy, Howl, Join, Legacy, Listen, Lord, Love, Mad, Magic, Moon, Music, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Savage, Spoke, Tragic, Undead, Vampire, Victory, Voice, Werewolf, Wolf | Leave a comment

Short Form Poetry: In Your Name

Posted on September 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

From the short form poetry workshop last night. It is a form called anaphora. These are the notes from the first notecard explaining the concept: “Anaphora is a poetic technique. From the Free Dictionary The first definition for anaphora is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Always, Anaphora, Better, In, Join, Know, Live, Love, Name, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Short Form, Talk, Technique, There, Together, Walk, Workshop, Your | Leave a comment

First Principles: Legal Immigrants Are Welcome To Join American Society and Conform To Our Established Rules

Posted on May 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acknowledge, Born, Conform, Country, Established Rules, First Principles, Happy, Join, Law, Right, Society, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Nostalgia For Guantanamo

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Legal Immigrants From All Nations Are Welcome As Long As These Conform To American Laws

Posted on January 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Conform, Established Rules, First Principles, Foreign, Join, Law, Legal, Society, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

First Principles: Action Plan – Engagement

Posted on September 1, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

After considerable thought and watching how American principles are again and again being usurped by those who do not have any greater right to a voice in defining the future of America than we Americans who believe in the founding … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Action Plan, America, Bible, Biblically Based, Christian, Citizen, Contact, Engage, Engagement, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Future, History, Join, Participate | Leave a comment