Tag Archives: Moments

Dead Letter

Posted on March 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some folks like to call history a dead letter. I really don’t understand this. Dead Letter by Michael Romani The past is never a dead letter But something we should study together Every generation rewrites the past And from … Continue reading →

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On the Importance of True History

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How did an intellectual fraud like Howard Zinn become the go to guy for American history in our public schools? It’s sort of outrageous. I remember when I was of a different mindset and more open to his … Continue reading →

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Pandemic 2020

Posted on March 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The days are dark but we will get through this. Pandemic 2020 by Michael Doyle Mass graves mark the passing through Of the last major outbreak of flu There are not moments relegated to history But a devastating part of … Continue reading →

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Finding Joy In the Tears

Posted on March 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Ecclesiastes 3:4: https://flic.kr/p/gsQDkz Finding Joy In the Tears by Michael Doyle In looking back on my many years I am finding joy in the tears There in the sweet music for my ears Is the finding … Continue reading →

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New Day Begun

Posted on February 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A trend in the 21st century is finding ever increasing value in team and cohesion working in collaboration to finding needed solutions. While I’ll never devalue the power of one, I think there is also much merit in working together. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Affirmation, Begun, Belong, Choice, Co-Creator, Cohesion, Collaboration, Connection, Conversation, Direction, Everyone, Faces, Find, Fragments, Gentle, God Flow, Imagination, Incantation, Integration, Know, Lace, Merit, Mingle, Mix Tape, Moments, Multi-Verse, New, New Day, Notes, Participate, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power of One, Random, Ring, Roots, Safe, Small Talk, Solution, Song, Strength, Tingle, Together, Universe, Value, Vibration, Voice, Yes | Leave a comment

Flickring Twitters of Instagram Moments

Posted on February 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Social media.. boon or bane? It’s hard to say. At this present moment, it seems that the greater the tools to meet and greet our fellow humanity embraced in our chosen moments, conversely we are losing some of sense of … Continue reading →

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Things Learned In Harvest

Posted on January 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Winter comes seeming like and end… Things Learned In Harvest by Michael Romani I’m never one for seeming alarmist But I have learned this about harvest The lessons learned from the garden I tend Is that Winter only seems like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begin, Days, Death, End, Garden, Harvest, Horizon, Kingdom, Learn, Lesson, Moments, New Year, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resurrect, Season, Second, Skeleton, T.S. Eliot, Time, Winter, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Standing On the Ledge

Posted on December 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today, dear readers, is New Year’s Eve. I do hope each and every one of you has a truly beautiful, safe and wonderful New Year’s Eve! May your night and new morn be filled with the 20/20 of recalling nothing … Continue reading →

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In The Fullness of Time

Posted on December 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem for this, the day celebrated as symbolizing Christ’s birth. Merry Christmas! Christmas… Christ Mass… A mass for Christ. Then then does that or might it actually mean? Is it really only about the birth of Christ? Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Belief, Birth, Bless, Christ, Contemplation, Essence, Exact, Full, God, God In Christ, Grasp, Greeting Card, Heir, Holy, Hymn, Man, Mass, Meaning, Merry Christmas, Moments, Mystery, Nativity Play, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reconcile, Redemption, Reflect, Sin, Sublime, Time, Toast, Told, Transcend, Truth, Woman | Leave a comment

Ways of Survival

Posted on September 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading →

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