Tag Archives: Ocean

Summer, Newport Beach

Posted on April 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 25 and the challenge is to write a poem that incorporates: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bain de Soleil, Balboa Pier, Beach House, Breeze, Brothers, Contact High, Cousin, Crab, Crash, Fire Pit, Growing Up, Huntington Beach, Jetty, Ladies, Na/GloPoWriMo, Newport Beach, Ocean, Older, Paddle, Park, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rock, Saltwater, Season, Sense, Shoreline, St Tropez, Summer, Sunshine, Surf, Talk, Tan, The Zoo, Water, Wave, Young | Leave a comment

I Am the Ocean

Posted on April 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17 and the challenge is to write a poem from an unusual perspective. What if a drop of water thought it was the ocean itself?… I Am the Ocean by Michael Romani I am the ocean I am … Continue reading →

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A Prayer For the Healing

Posted on March 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

No use whining about life’s complications really, right? So let me just encourage everyone to love when they can and cry when you feel it’s needed. Keep your hearts open and find that bit of truth that works to make … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angst, Band-Aid, Believe, Capacity, Complicate, Confluence, Construct, Control, Cry, Dark Night, Desist, Destruction, Devotion, Diet, Emotion, Encourage, Epidemic, Fear, Feeling Good, Frustrate, God's Eyes, Harm, Heal, Hurt, Influence, Intelligence, Joke, Know, Love, Made, More, Mother's Kiss, Ocean, Pain, Past, Photograph, Piece, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Precious, Reveal, Shore, Surrender, Tender, Thoughts, Tortured Soul, Tough, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Western, World | 1 Comment

Siren’s Song

Posted on February 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Maybe it’s the beginning of a sea story… Siren’s Song by Michael Romani My soul fills with longing for the sea All of its stormy secrets coursing through me There in her depth of strength in this ocean Is something … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Calamity, Call, Door, Emotion, End, Family, Listen, Mystery, Ocean, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pottery, Sea, Search, Secret, Shard, Shore, Siren, Soul, Storm, Wave | Leave a comment

From A Flower, A Garden Grows

Posted on January 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today’s Thought For the Day really grabs at my heart and soul. It bears repeating until we all get it. In this world and all virtual worlds, we can be fairly much choose to be most anything we desire. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blind, Correction, Dance, Deliver, Direction, Feed, Find, Fish, Flower, Forever, Garden, God, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Held, Kind, Know, Light, Love, Man, Moment, Night, Now, Ocean, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, River, Shine, Sorrow, Sparkle, Step, Tear, Tomorrow, Whisper, You and I | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Marine

Posted on August 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Looking back, a lifetime ago or so it now seems One of the things that was foremost in my dreams Was the thought of growing up and becoming someone Like Jacques Cousteau, only an American one I would study and … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Daily Prompt, Destruction, Dreams, Humanity, Instruction, Jacquest Cousteau, Lifetime, Marine, Marine Conservation, Ocean, Reply, Seagulls, Shore, Someone, Vanity | Leave a comment

Reflections On Jamaican Memories

Posted on August 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

A lifetime ago, but, still fresh in my memory somehow. Reflections On Jamaican Memories by Michael Romani The sun sets and reflects on the Caribbean sea As I think on all it has meant to me There in all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Caribbean, Clouds, Coconuts, Curry, Island, Jamaica, Jesters, Mangoes, Mermaid, Motifs, Ocean, Oxtail, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflections, Sunset, Themes, Tourists | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Opera

Posted on July 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

If you listen very closely as you take a walk Taking those moments to listen to the park You will find there is an opera in the wild I have known this since a free and ranging child Live these … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Broken, Bull Frog, Canopy, Child, Complexity, Daily Prompt, Forgotten, Heart, Life, Mountain Top, Music, Ocean, Opera, Owl, Park, Trees, Trust, Unspoken, Walk, Wild | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Size

Posted on July 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

A tear drop is painted on the wall It’s the many details behind the fall Telling its secrets to all who will see Of hope lost and grief in travesty Large or small, it’s the size of an ocean A … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Daily Prompt, Daughters, Details, Fall, Grave, Grief, Hope, Loss, Ocean, Overwhelmed, Size, Surf, Tear Drop, Travesty, Wall | Leave a comment

Mirror, Mirror…

Posted on June 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Some people amuse. Others are a muse… by birth. The lady asked me for a poem to match her beautiful photograph. This was the best, I could do. https://flic.kr/p/28h9g1v Mirror, Mirror… by Michael Romani There she was sitting beside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty, Better Man, Capricorn, Emotion, Journey, Muse, Ocean, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Side By Side, Soul, Understanding, Virgo | Leave a comment