Tag Archives: Same

A Cowboy Slips Into Easy

Posted on May 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some of my heroes have been cowboys. At least one of them was a cowgirl. My sister. She’s likely riding the North Back 40 in heaven now looking down on us all and encouraging us to ride through this storm … Continue reading →

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Remonstration

Posted on April 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The 28th Day of Na/GloPoWriMo asks for optional prompt of recalling our favorite bedrooms in the manner of our choosing. Mostly what I remember growing up shouldn’t be. Remonstration by Michael Doyle Looking back without much remonstration I recall how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Barren Walls, Beauty, Better, Bookends, Books, Community, Confined, Consistent, Derelction, Destination, Dust, Duty, Enrich, Family, Fill, Forts, Friends, Globe, Grow, Guitar, Human Beings, Imagination, Improve, Inspection, Kids, Lives, Long, Looking Back, Loud, Loved, Marks, Military Brat, Music, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Natural, On-Base Housing, Outside, Photograph, Plain, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quarter, Remonstration, Retreat, Room, Same, Scuffles, Seen, Sentient, Songs, Spartan, Tape, Tidy, Together, Truth, Wall, Way, Week, White Gloves, World, Years | Leave a comment

Mathing the COVID-19 Curve

Posted on April 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1918 Influenza, Absence, Application, Base Reproduction Number, Basic, Breath, Business As Usual, Change, Common Sense, Consistent, Contact, Contact Rate, COVID-19, Crucial, Current Data, Curve, Daily, Death, Decrease, Degrees, Depend, Direction, Doubt, Early Action, Epidemic, Escape, Exponential, Fact, Fate, Feedback Loop, Fire, Flatten, Gasoline, Good Habits, Grave, Heal, Heed, Horror, Hospital Beds, Hour, Humans, Illness, Impact, Increase, Infected, Infection, Keep Calm, Land, Linear, Little, Lives, Logarithmic Scale, Map, Math, Medical Care, Mid-April, Mind, Mitigate, Model, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nations, Nerves, News Article, Non-Linear, Numb, Numbers, Outbreak, Overblown, Overflow, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Population, Potential, Power, Practice, Project, Proportion, Reduce, Remove, Resiliency, Sad, Safe, Same, Sanitation, Save, Seal, See, Seen, Shown, SIR Curve, Social Distancing, Society, Staggering, Steady, Straight Line, Supplication, Susceptible, Tale, Time, Trajectory Rates, Trouble, Understand, Vaccine, Virus | Leave a comment

Connections Made

Posted on February 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In looking out toward what others do and say, sometimes I have moments of introspection. Lately, this has centered and focused on the connections made between a lady I spend hours talking with and feeling so deep. Not that past … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Anticipation, Better, Blessed, Bring, Butterflies, By My Side, Call, Circumstance, Connection, Easy, Feel, Feelings, Final Destination, Find, Flirtation, Girl, Hide, Introspection, Kiss, Know, Life, Name, Other, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Queasy, Reciprocation, Refection, Ring, Same, Song, Spend, Talk, Together, True, Walk, Wife, Yang, Yin | Leave a comment

Virtuosity

Posted on January 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In memory of the passing of Neil Pert, percussionist and lyricist extraordinaire: Not that great of a job on this but.. for the memory of a good man passing, Neil Pert: Virtuosity by Michael Romani Quietly fighting against his demise … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ayn Rand, Blessing, Breath, Change, Closer To the Heart, Complex, Compromise, Contemplation, Corporate, Creativity, Death, Demise, Drumming, Eight Bars, Fight, Godspeed, Gratitude, Home, Humble, Inspiration, Integrity, Live, Lyric, Master, Memory, Neil Pert, Note, Pen, Percussion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Proficiency, Quiet, Rooftop, Rush, Same, Science Fiction, Style, Syncopation, Tears, Virtuousity, Word | Leave a comment

On This St Nicholas Day 2019

Posted on December 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Happiest of St Nicholas’ Days 2019! This is the day that I will forever and a day celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season. Though honestly, I believe the world would be all the better if we kept Christmas in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2019, Beautiful, Believe, Birth, Celebrate, Child, Christmas Season, Creed, Custom, December, Deeds, Door, Doubt, Faith, Faraway, Favor, First Light, Fortune, Gifts, Gladness, Good Deed, Good Name, Good News, Heart, Jesus, Legend, Live, Nicea, Night, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Respect, Same, Santa, Seal, Shiver, Shoe, Sound, St Nicholas Day, Summer, Toys, Truth, Wolf | Leave a comment

Natural Collaboration of Lights

Posted on November 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Okay.. so it’s a stretch. But, since I’m always grateful for art and artistic endeavors, this will be my poem of gratitude #26: Natural Collaboration of Lights by Michael Romani Water falls Like the passage of time The angle calls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Angle, Art, Beauty, Child's Game, Collaborate, Color, Few, Grace, Grateful, Gratitude, Light, Love, Natural, Nature, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Same, Sea, Sight, Space, Spectrum, Sublime, Tale, Thankful, Time, View, Water, Weather | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Success Consists In Never Making the Same Mistake Twice

Posted on October 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Consist, George Bernard Shaw, Make, Mistake, Same, Second, Success, Thought For the Day, Time | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Cannot Solve Our Problems With the Same Thinking We Used When We Created Them

Posted on October 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

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Thought For the Day: Politicians and Diapers Must Be Changed Often

Posted on August 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” – Mark Twain After watching the debates, I could not agree more. Impossible promises on one side. Lack of acknowledgement for failed policies let alone offers of different approaches … Continue reading →

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