Tag Archives: Ocean

Beating the Odds

Posted on September 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Life’s will to survive is a remarkable story. Beating the Odds by Michael Romani Heat of day and cold of night The Great Dying came with a fright Two Hundred Fifty years ago Nearly all life died as you might … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abound, Acidic, Ancestor, Beam, Beat, Challenge, Cold, Deep, Defy, Desert, Diverse, Dry, Explode, Extinction, Few, Fit, Ground, Heat, Karoo, Land, Life, Meerkat, Mother Nature, Normal, Ocean, Odds, Path, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Punch, Revive, Ring, Scrappy, Shake, Shape, Size, Story, Sun, Super Volcanoes, Survive, Take, Teem, The Great Dying, Underground, Variety, Ways | Leave a comment

Angel Falls (Recalls)

Posted on August 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s a lot of power in the water that flows on this planet of ours. Like the sun .. but a lot cooler.. it is a bringer of both life and destruction…. Angel Falls (Recalls) by Michael Romani Angel Falls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel Falls, Backbone, Beauty, Chemistry, Complexity, Consistent, Crumble, Cycle, Death, Destruction, Earth, Echo, Electric, Energy, Ethereal, Flow, Force, Found, Fright, Heat, Hour, Hydrothermal, Island, Kinetic, Ledge, Life, Lightning, Loop, Mystery, Newborn, Ocean, Organic, Peak, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primordial, Rock, Sky, Soul, Soup, Stardust, Storm, Strife, Sun, Surge, Synergy, System, Warm, Water | Leave a comment

No Coincidence

Posted on August 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

An ardent atheist Issac Asimov was so startled by the number of improbables that allow live on the earth to thrive that he wrote a piece on that and the odds he tabulated were astronomical. He couldn’t bring himself to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carbon Dioxide, Chance, Coincidence, Earth, Earth Science, Edge, Extraordinary, Floor, Forgive, Gratitude, Hubble, Improbable, Issac Asimov, Miracle, Moment, Ocean, Odds, Organism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Resilient, River, Sediment, Sun, Survive, Thankful, Thrive, Together | Leave a comment

Strong On Defense

Posted on August 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Sun is one part friend and one part foe. It’s amazing thinking of the ways the Earth protects us from this. https://flic.kr/p/mzC6Hg Strong On Defense by Michael Romani What is the strength of the solar flares To measure this, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Assassin, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Burn, Core, Curtain, Damage, Defense, Earth, Edge, Fissures, Foe, Friend, Heart, Heat, Inferno, Lava, Light, Magnetic Field, Mars, Motion, Night, Ocean, Orbit, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Radioactive, Ravage, Shield, Show, Solar Flare, Space, Strong, Study, Sun, Ultra Violet, Vents, Volcano, Zenith | Leave a comment

Power of the Moon

Posted on July 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There is a tidal pull to the moon that is nothing short of miraculous. Power of the Moon by Michael Romani The children must learn The power of the moon Pulled by tides we earn Our keep from the ocean’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Boon, Children, Collide, Depend, Earn, Essential, Full, Human, Ice, Inuit, Learn, Lesson, Life, Listen, Lunar, Moon, Motion, Mussel, Ocean, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pursue, Reason, Ride, Sacred, Spin, Stars, Sun, Survive, Think, Thrive, Tide, Truth, Understand, Wise | Leave a comment

Essence of Turning

Posted on July 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Life is a continuous cycle from the greatest to the smallest of all levels. It is an exchange that always provides for the greater good even with all the bad along the way. https://flic.kr/p/pM518F Essence of Turning by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barren, Blessing, Care, Cloud, Cosmic Dust, Cycle, Day, Diamond, Diversity, Earth, Emotion, Essence, Exchange, God, Legacy, Life, Lifeless, Love, Lucky Star, Miss, Night, Ocean, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Rain, Refrain, Rock, Rust, Shower, Storm, Swirl, Turn, Water | Leave a comment

All In All Contribution

Posted on July 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Seen from space all of this is one shared place of revolving interconnection. I bet it’s like that in God’s eyes as well. All In All Contribution by Michael Romani An ice face collapses into sea With a familiar popping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Andes, Atmosphere, Balance, Bloom, Blue Line, Blue Sky, Connection, Contribution, Cycle of Life, Delicate, Desert, Flame, Gloom, God, Gravity, Hypoxia, Ice Face, Link, Marine Snow, Melody, Ocean, Oxygen, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Recognize, Sea, Sky Rim, Solution, Song, Space, Spark, Stable, String, Sunshine, Think, Tightrope | Leave a comment

On The Importance of A Diatom

Posted on July 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The world needs a lot of oxygen to breath. We take it for granted. Most of us. Some of us get exposed to toxicity that makes us know just how precious that oxygen is. But, where does it come from? … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amazon, Andes, Breeze, Climate, Cloud, Coincidence, Diatom, Fertile Soil, Floral, History, Importance, Journey, Jungle, Know, Life, Lungs, Mystery, Ocean, Oxygen, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Popular Science, Providence, Rain, Rainforest, River, Sahara, Secret, Sky, Symphonic, Tree, Tropical, Truth, Water, Wind | Leave a comment

A Mother’s Love Remembered 2019

Posted on May 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Comes a time when our mom is no longer with us in physical form but is in our hearts and souls, right? This poem is meant to honor that. A Mother’s Love Remembered 2019 by Michael Romani A mother’s love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2019, Band-Aid, Best, Brought, Child, Compassiona, Faith, Lessons, Love, More, Mother, Mother's Day, Ocean, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remember, Smile, Sore, Strong, Sweet, Taught, Tender Mercy, There, Tide, Tomorrow, Truth, Unselfish, Wide, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Frozen Infinity

Posted on May 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge brought last night was to write a poem about snow, ice, winter, spring and all the things these things bring. Who knew that albatrosses also mate for life? I didn’t know…. and…Here’s my attempt: Frozen Infinity by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Albatross, Alive, Antarctica, Beauty, Blunder, Boom, Children, Cod, Consequence, Consign, Cost, Cub, Cycle, Design, Duty, Early Bird, Earth, Emperor, Feeling, Flood, Frozen, God Willing, Harsh, Hunter, Ice, Icicle, Infinity, Lean Times, Life, Loom, Manna, Melt, Meltwater, Migration, Mother Nature, Mother's Love, Narhal, New Life, Niche, North, Ocean, Peace, Pebble, Penguin, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Polar Bear, Polar Wind, Prey, Remind, Sense, Snow, Spring, Stone, Strife, Sun, Survive, Tapestry, Thaw, Tundra, Tusk, Tuxedo, Unfair, Unicorn, Waterfall, Winter, Wonder | Leave a comment