Tag Archives: Price

Cursed Fate

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Analysis, Battlefields, Been, Best, Better, Bible, Blood, Bloody, Books, Celebration, Children, Choice, Circumstance, Civilization, Cognitive, Complexity, Consent, Context, Criticism, Decision, Deconstruction, Destruction, Direction Observation, Distortion, Enmesh, Examine, Eyes, Fail, Fate, Finest Hours, Fix, Fixed, Forget, Fragile, Freedom, Frontier, Good, Governed, Gun, Happenstance, History, Hope, Howard Zinn, Illustration, Important, Inquiry, Insight, Intellectual Fraud, Judgment, Lesson, Liberty, Light, Long Ago, Loss, Manipulate, Mankind, Moments, Mortal Needs, Muddy, Nation, New World, Observation, Old World, Optimisim, Past, Path, Perspective, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Power, Present, Price, Recall, Reflective, Revolution, Right, Sacrifice, Search, Skew, Snapshot, Social, Soul, Sown, Suffice, Think, Time, Treasure, True, Truth, Twin, Unfold, War, When, Whole, Willing, Wise | Leave a comment

Heirlooms In the Shadows

Posted on March 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Haunted graveyards anyone? Heirlooms In the Shadows by Michael Doyle Where there is wanton violence There is always fear in that place You can feel it in the silence That permeates darkness in that space Standing there with the coffin … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Believable, Bleak, Bury, Chance, Coffin, Crime, Crypt, Dance, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Evil, Family Secret, Fear, Grave, Graveyard, Haunt, Heard, Heirloom, Horror, Ignorant, Inconceivable, Incur, Jewelry, Know, Locked Away, Many, Mausoleum, Moonlight, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretend, Price, Promise, Regret, Respect, Save, Shadow, Silence, Stride, Told, Truth, Unfold, Violence, Welcome | Leave a comment

Lessons Learned As To Revenge

Posted on March 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Living well is the best revenge taken. Forgiveness over anger. Love instead of indifference, pain or extreme dislike. Lessons Learned As To Revenge by Michael Romani Revenge is our undoing A debt that keeps accruing When really best left alone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accrue, Anger, Believe, Blind, Books, Build, Clue, Correction, Debt, Dig, Direction, Embrace, Energy, Eye For An Eye, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgot, Gain, God, Grow, Heart, Hope, Humans, Indifference, Injury, Journey, Kind, Laughter, Learn, Left, Legacy, Lesson, Living Well, Lost, Love, Pause, Peace, Photograph, Poetry, Price, Prove, Revenge, Save, Slights, Strong, Undoing, Value, Weight, Wise | Leave a comment

Passport To Heaven

Posted on December 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based on a dockside sermon: Passport To Heaven by Michael Romani The work of the spirit is to convict us of sin That we might live triumphant yet again This is the message that we must always live And in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Belief, Billion, Blessed Assurance, Convict, Creed, Declaration, Destination, Dockside, Eternal Life, Faith, Forgive, Forgiveness, Hearts, Heaven, Jesus, Judgment, Justification, Kingdom, Know, Live, Message, Passport, Path, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Price, Relief, Salvation, Sermon, Sin, Spirit, Stamp, Suffice, Survive, Throne, Triumph, Trust, Truth, Written, Wrong | Leave a comment

Bearing Our Witness

Posted on November 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Acts 7:55-56: Bearing Our Witness by Michael Romani Here we are to give our witness Showing in our walk out bit of fitness All in all given in strength and humility Testifying in life as part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apostle Steven, Bear, Book of Acts, Breath, Broken, Christian Life, Comfort Zone, Deep, Divinity, Duty, Earnest, Embrace, Examine, Face, Fitness, Forgiveness, God's Family, Grace, Grow, Honesty, Humility, Integrity, Learn, Led, Life, Lord, Love, Mirror, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Road, Sacrifice, See, Show, Sinner, Spirit, St Stephen, Steps, Strength, Talk, Testify, Travel, True, Unravel, Walk, Witness, World, Yoke | Leave a comment

We Who Damn Ourselves

Posted on October 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #19: We Who Damn Ourselves by Michael Romani We damn ourselves To our own private hells Dwelling on all Of the tiniest details In a world grown cold We lose all hope All of our dreams bought and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beg, Bought and Sold, Cling, Cold, Contrary, Damn, Deserve, Desperate, Detail, Dreams, Dwell, Easy, Elusive, End of Day, Evidence, Evil, Eyes, Forgive, Found, Halloween, Hang, Heresy, Hope, Ignore, Implore, Learn, Mercy, Monster, Ourselves, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Private Hell, Reach, Rope, Say, Through, Way, We, Words, World, Worthy | Leave a comment

Like Brothers

Posted on August 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The things done in the military grows most men’s units in whatever force into something like family. Most of us ended fighting for our brothers and sisters more than ideals or nations. Some of us carry the memories of our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back, Battles, Beer, Brothers, Caution, Count On, Crime, Danger, Day, Distance, Do It, Done, Doubt, Fallen, Family, Fight, Forever Faithful, Friend, Giving up, God, Head, Joke, Laugh, Live, Longer, Memory, Miles, Military, Mother, Movie, My Time, Need, Nothing to Say, Odds, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Push Past, Race, Remember, Resistance, Ring, Semper Fi, Sigh, Sisters, Smile, Sonds, Stronger, Tears, Toss, Twin, Weight, Years | Leave a comment

Eulogy For the Profane

Posted on August 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The last few days have been painful. I wonder if that means I’m growing? Isn’t that the saying “no pain, no gain”? Eulogy For the Profane by Michael Romani They say profanity Is the sign of a lazy mind All … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aneurysm, Appreciate, Boss, Charles, Clever, Cry, Days, Death, Decisions, Depend, Disdain, Doubt, Duty, Endeavor, Eulogy, Eyes, Falling Out, Fascination, Find, Friend, Funeral, Glory, Good Man, Goodbye, Grief, Head, Honor, Infer, Insane, Lazy, Light, Listen, Loss, Lost, Love, Mentor, Mess, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points, Price, Profane, Profanity, Reaper, Right, Sage Advice, Sigh, Soldier, Story, Strain, Tell, Train Wreck, Try, Undone, Venity, Whiskey, Whisper | Leave a comment

Listening To God

Posted on August 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There are times I come to find that I wish I had listened more deeply and with much thought before acting instead of always being caught in reacting. It seems a lesson that I continually learn. The mistakes made have … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Choice, Christian, Counsel, Discern, Distinction, Flow, God, Lesson, Listen, Mistake, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Refrain, Strain, Talk, Voice, Walk, Will | Leave a comment