Tag Archives: Life

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

A Side of Forgiveness

Posted on January 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love, life and laughter all take forgiveness to be best lived. A Side of Forgiveness by Michael Romani She smiles as she whispers Speaking directly as to what occurs To her mind when it listens to her heart About the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Abundance, Acceptance, Beautiful, Being, Best, Better Place, Burden, Certain, Clarity, Constant, Creation, Deep, Dream, Earth, Eyes, Face, Feeling, Felt, Fill, Forgiveness, Gentle, Gossip, Guilt, Hand, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Imagination, Imperfection, Introspection, Judgment, Kiss, Laughter, Life, Live, Living, Lost, Love, Message, Mind, Miss, Moment, Need, Peaceful, People, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Release, Repentance, Seal, Seen, Selfish, Share, Shelter, Sing, Smile, Soul, Speak, Strive, Sweet, Things, Touch, Truth, Whisper, Wonderful, World, Year | Leave a comment

Somewhere In A Hobbit’s Town

Posted on January 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The whole creative process behind the making of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies and the original tales has and have always fascinated me. How about you? Somewhere In A Hobbit’s Town by Michael Romani Somewhere in Switzerland … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Alchemy, Artist, Beautiful, Believe, Bits, Blend, Blessing, Call, Close, Cold, Conceal, Concept, Created, Daydreams, Deep, Detail, Discover, Drawing, Dream, End, Endless, Exist, Fantasy, Fascinate, Feeling, Fragment, Freed, Fusion, Generation, God, Grip, Head, Heart, Hobbit, Hobbiton, Hom, Immersion, Inspire, Journey, Keep, Kept, Layers, Life, Little Garden, Look, Lord of the Rings, Magic, Memory, Mid-Earth, Mirth, Movie, Mystery, Nature, New Zealand, North, Pantheon, Pencil, Penetrate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Read, Real, Regale, Reveal, Road, Ruins, Saga, Sketch, Smile, Soul, Steep, Switzerland, Tale, Tea, Tolkien, Trace, Veil, Veneration, Walk, Weep, Wilds, Wise, Wordless, Words, Worth, Woven | Leave a comment

As Jesus Was Walking (In My Life)

Posted on January 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 4:18-20 and on other things as well.. 😉 As Jesus Was Walking (In My Life) by Michael Romani Coming home to Jesus, taking my love home There at the foot of the cross, not alone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Alone, Atone, Blessed, Commit, Connect, Cross, Empower, Extraordinary, Faith, Father, Follow, Foot, Forgive, Glory, God, Hand, Home, Human Being, Incomplete, Jesus, Life, Listen, Living, Lord, Love, Matthew, Meaning, Meet, Message, Path, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Purpose, Question, Salvation, Satisfaction, Sermon, Serve, Share, Side, Smile, Stone, Tale, Talk, Touch, Tranquility, True, Walk, Ways, Word, Worth, You | Leave a comment

Unpredictable Play

Posted on January 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Play is how children best first learn. Maybe it’s that way throughout all of life? Unpredictable Play by Michael Romani Life, she says, is truly best When it’s lived an unpredictable test Where attention is paid like a guest Requiring … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibis, Alive, Architecture, Attention, Aware, Best, Bit, Brink, Cat, Child, Children, Claw, Curious, Detail, Dream, Dying, Empower, Engagment, Explore, Feel, Fit, Guesst, Heroes, Hide, Important, Insist, Intuition, Learn, Lesson, Life, Live, Mind, Nuts and Bolts, Pattern, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Post-Industrial, Real, Recall, Repitition, Rest, Rise, Rote, Rules, School, See, Shine, Significant, Soul, Survive, Test, Think, Try, Unpredictable, Value, Way, World, Young | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: An Armed Society Is A Polite Society

Posted on January 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“An armed society is a polite society.” – Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acts, Armed, Back Up, Good, Life, manners, Polite, Robert A Heinlein, Society, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

To Life (L’Chaim)

Posted on January 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sundays like all other days are best lived with at least a touch of reverence for the divine. To Life (L’Chaim) by Michael Romani Life is long And often filled with questions Too many of which have no answers Only … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Answer, Assurance, Beam, Beauty, Belong, Blessed, Change, Choice, Connection, Contemplation, Cosmic Dancer, Direction, Divine, Divinity, Dream, Eternal, Final Keys, Free, Gentle, Gift, Given, God, Grace, Grief, Grow, Hand, Harden, Heart, Hesitation, Hope, Humor, Kindness, Kingdom, Know, L'Chaim, Lessen, Life, Lighthouse, Live, Love, Moonbeam, Multiple, Numbers, One, Peace, Photograph, Plurality, Poem, Poetry, Question, Relief, Return, Revelation, Reverence, Sacred, Secret, Smile, Soul, Spiritual, Stone, Struggle, Swan Dive, Touch, Truth, Understand, Union, Unity, Universe, View, Voice, Walk, Whisper, Wisdom, World | Leave a comment

Scorecard

Posted on January 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever wonder how your life is tallying up? Scorecard by Michael Romani Sometimes like an idiot savant I do my best to be your servant Lord, to put things a little oddly I recognize that on earth, I am your … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambassador, Angel, Bad Things, Blessed, Body, Build, Compassion, Create, Cripple, Darkness, Defeat, Despise, Dignity, Divinity, Dwell, Earth, Example, Eyes, Fail, Feet, Fell, Freedom, Good, Hand, Hard, Heartbreak, Heaven, Holy, Humanity, Idiot Savant, Kingdom, Learn, Life, Lord, Love, Mistake, Non-Judgmental, Odd, Offer, Path, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pure, Raise Me Up, Rein, Scorecard, Selfishness, Servant, Serve, Shine, Spirit, Stumble, Surprise, Talk, Tally, Upright, Vacilliate, Vain, Walk, Wonder, Worship, Wrong, Yield | Leave a comment

Afrofuturistic

Posted on January 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Design and empathy feed off each other in telling many tales. One of these is the telling of Black America’s history and a guiding light into the future. Afrofuturistic by Michael Romani Life can be a bit frantic For the … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Accident, Afro, Anoint, Appearance, Beauty, Black America, Boogie, Breath, Color, Dedication, Derogatory, Design, Details, Education, Empathy, Entry, Escape, Everything, Exploitive, Fanatic, Fashion, Frantic, Freedom, Future, God, Harlem, Hip Hop, History, Humanity, Humble, Instill, Intricate, Journey, Kinectic, Liberty, Library, Life, Line, Lost, Mechanistic, Neighborhood, Passion, Perfectionist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Refine, Renaissance, Reveal, Significance, Something, Story, Tell, True, Truth, Whisper | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Life of the Nation Is Secure Only While The Nation Is Honest, Truthful and Virtuous

Posted on January 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” – Frederick Douglass

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Frederick Douglass, Honest, Life, Nation, Secure, Truthful, Virtuous | Leave a comment