Tag Archives: Lost

Breathe the Legacy

Posted on April 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriMo Day Four challenge is to write a sad poem. That’s easy enough to do this time around. Someone who is increasingly important to me beyond nearly all measure of my meager words recently lost someone. I can … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advocate, Born, Brave, Breathe, Dare, Deep, Defense, Family, Footstep, Force, Fragrant, Heart, History, Hurt, Legacy, Liberty, Life, Live, Lost, Lost Child, Love, Modern World, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Right, Sad, Show, Soul, Speak Well, Steep, Step, Tender, Tough, Truth, Vancouver, Win, Woman | Leave a comment

In A Question of Liberty

Posted on April 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this second day of Na/GloPoWriMo, we are invited to explore writing a poem that avoids closure by providing the open end of the question. I believe that as an invitation to explore a significant question raised by a far … Continue reading →

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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

First Reasons Lost

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

What becomes of our individual worlds when our first reasons are lost? First Reasons Lost by Michael Romani First reasons have been lost And with that loss comes a cost The giving up when it becomes Too much to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusations, Another, Busy Day, Call, Closed Eyes, Cold, Compassion, Conception, Cost, Dare, Demanding, Doubt, Down, Dreams, Drown, Fall, Fear, First Reason, Giving up, Good Lord, Gray, Imagine, Inquisition, Lashing Out, Listen, Lost, Love, Matter, Miraclees, Nightmare, Numb, Other, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Real, Requisition, Reveal, Rope, See, Self Inflict, Shatter, Snare, Snowfall, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Trap, True Light, Understanding, Voyage, Water, Winter, World | Leave a comment

Lost In the Sound

Posted on March 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Some days, I miss the bad ole days of playing music and thinking that was where my journey would always lead. Lost In the Sound by Michael Romani Taking all All in stride Taken for A wild ride Taken too … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aground, Allowed, Around, Ballet, Change, Chase, Desire, Fire, Found, Guns For Hire, Heart, Journey, Lost, Loud, Music, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proud, Ride, Rooftop, Shake, Sing, Song, Sound, Stage, Stage Lights, Straight No Chaser, Stride, Tiptoe, View, Wild, Wire | Leave a comment

Further Destiny

Posted on February 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Who are we to deny who we really are? Further Destiny by Michael Romani In a shivered ship of cold He sang a song remembered from old Ever bitter in its minding Lost without hope of finding That knife blade … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bitter, Breath, Broke, Cast Away, Cold, Crash, Dash, Despair, Destiny, Find, Knife Blade, Legacy, Light, Lost, Matter, Minding, North Star, Old, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rock, Self Deceive, Shatter, Ship, Shiver, Shoal, Song, Splash, Thunder, Wave | Leave a comment

Tattered Hall

Posted on February 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

At times, life is a bittersweet drink and yet still it is what quenches our thirst. Tattered Hall by Michael Romani With the tolling of the bells The poet is announced dead All the mystery and half of the spells … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bell, Books, Cherish, Dark, Dead, Derision, Forget, Friend, Hall, Head, Lost, Mess, Muse, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Song, Soul, Spell, Stroll, Summer Dress, Suspicion, Tatter, Toll, Toss, Verse, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government and Civil Society Ever Pursued Until Liberty Is Lost

Posted on February 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Civil Society, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Pursue | Leave a comment

Talk Is Cheap Rondel

Posted on February 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Poem A Day form for Day#14 is the Rondel form. The word prompt is ‘sunspot’. Sorry to say. But, I am not going to use the word prompt. It’s only provided here in case there is a reader out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blues, Broody, Cheap, Dissonance, E, Everyday, France, Harmony, Jump Beat, Key, Life, Lost, Melody, Milkwood, Misery, Modern, Moody, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quick Time, Rondel, Talk | Leave a comment

Memory of Fireworks Haiku

Posted on February 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I keep stumbling around trying to catch up with this whole Milkwood Poem of a Day event. Mainly, it seems that when bits and pieces are done out of sequence, it confuses me to where to go from there. With … Continue reading →

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