Tag Archives: River

Na/GloPoWriMo #12: No More Sense Than the Ancient Mariner

Posted on April 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #12: No More Sense Than the Ancient Mariner by Michael Doyle The river grew as it pushed Outward with its rich sediment Yet still, in this modern age, mankind Though too often willfully blind Fancies itself some sort of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: As For Me and My Household, We Will Serve the Lord

Posted on February 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Beyond, Book of Joshua, Choose For Yourselves, First Principles, Forefathers, Gods, Gods of the Amories, Land You Are Living, Me and My Household, River, Serve the Lord, Serving the Lord, Undesirable, We, Whom You Will Serve | Leave a comment

Wounds Let In the Light

Posted on November 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Wounds Let In the Lightby Michael DoyleThey say our wounds let in the lightI don’t know if it’s by experience or second lightBut something about this notion is wound tightAnd from what I have seen, perhaps they’re rightThe worst wound … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bear, Believed, Better Selves, Born, Clear, Comfort, Dead, Deeply Understood, Defend, Enter, Experience, Fatality, Fate, Forced Wrong, Give Almost Anything, Guilt, Immortality, Innately Good, Innocent, Lane, Life, Light, Little Left, Moral Injury, Mortality, Name, No Going Back, Notion, Ourselves, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Right, River, Same, Sear, Second Light, Seen, Self-Confessed, Shame, Sin, Smoke Clears, Soul, Stood, To Return, War's End, Worst Wound, Wound Tight, Wounds | Leave a comment

So Much Sky

Posted on March 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever been out in the middle of wilderness and realized the vastness of the universe and the smallness of humanity? So Much Sky by Michael Doyle So much sky That a person might get lost In a freedom one cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alliance, Brilliance, Buy, Compromise, Cost, Destiny, Empty, Fear, Freedom, Gold, Hidden, Humanity, Infamous, Journey, Lost, Overflown, Overgrown, Perplex, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Promise, Quicksand, Reconnaissance, River, Sky, Small, Universe, Vanity, Vast, Verity, Wilderness | Leave a comment

Taken Path

Posted on October 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #22: Taken Path by Michael Romani Even we who make our own heaven and hell Cannot evade that most singular of details That the chosen Wolf of God is our prophecy A singular enemy that is our owned … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Blood, Bring, Bury, Carry, Cave, Choice, Control, Crimson, Cure, Dark, Destiny, Detail, Dig, Do, Embrace, End, Enemy, Evil, Fable, Fear, Few, Fight, Fog, Forever, Full Moon, Gift, Gods, Grave, Halloween, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Heresy, History, Infusion, Know, Legacy, Light, Man, Mud, Night, Offspring, Path, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poison, Power, Prophecy, River, Run, Save, Shaman, Sin, Single, Singular, Soul, Stand, Strength, Vision, Wolf, Wolf of God, World | Leave a comment

Blood On Our Hands

Posted on October 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween poem #2 – mankind has the worse monsters and is seldom as kind as we might be if only we could. Blood On Our Hands by Michael Romani Our brutalities serve to shape us Though we wish to deny … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Asylum, Atrocity, Belief, Better, Blood, Brother, Brutality, Certain, Creature of the Night, Cure, Dawn, Deny, Dignity, Doctor, Fail, Fatal, Forget, Forgivver, God, Halloween, Hands, Heavy, Heoes, Humane, Humanity, Killers, Laugh, Live, Memory, Monster, Night, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push, Remake, Right, River, Seen, Shadow, Shape, Sister, Sleep, Stir, Toll, Unafraid, Vanity, Watch | Leave a comment

Halloween Is Coming

Posted on October 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

October 1st. It must be a day for many things. But as the night comes to an end, felt like an old friend, I feel Halloween coming on… Halloween Is Coming by Michael Romani In the distance, I hear the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Badlands, Beast, Blame, Blood, Card, Claw, Come, Darkness, Distance, Drum, Embrace, Evil, Guilt, Halloween, Heart, Hello, Hiss, Holiness, Light, Mask, Murder, Necklace, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quench, Repentance, River, Serpent, Shame, Sin, Stay, Stench, Sundown, Tale, Trick, True Face, Unleash, Vain, Venom, Wash, Whisper | Leave a comment

Crossed Paths

Posted on September 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Touch and go for the soul. Crossed Paths by Michael Romani Silent like a river Life continues to flow What is today Will soon be long ago The things we hold onto The things we believe They mean so much … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ago, Appear, Believe, Cross, Deceive, Destiny, Flow, Found, Go, Hold, Journey, Life, Mean, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, River, Secret, Silent, Soul, Tear, Today, Touch | 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

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