Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Sin
The Rock
A poem of gratitude #19: The Rock by Michael Romani Steadfast in the rock that is my messiah Sadly, I still fall victim to my worse desires Like Peter, I know that I would have lied If I falsely stated, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angst, Blame, Blasphemy, Broken, Chill, Confidence, Deny, Depth, Desire, Destination, Doubt, Fade, Faith, Garden of Gethsemane, Grace, Gratitude, Hesitation, Kingdom, Lie, Lord, Men, Messiah, Moment, Moon, Obedience, Olive, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rock, Sacrifcice, Self, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Soul, Steadfast, Stray, Strength, Suffice, Temptation, Weak, Wholeness, Wisdom
Leave a comment
Walking In Thankfulness
A poem of thankfulness #13: Walking In Thankfulness by Michael Romani There in the goodness that is the God-ness That waltzes right past guilt into innocence With the grammar of faith we talk our talk Knowing that thankfully, we’ll walk … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Amaze, Best, Contemplate, Deeds, Defer, Doubt, Dwelling Place, Face to Face, Faith, Forgive, Gammar, Gift, Giver, Glass, God, Good Purpose, Goodness, Gratitude, Guilt, Hand, Help, Humble, Innocence, Love Letter, Man, Mirror, Muddle, Needs, Notion, Pain, Pass, Photograph, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Points of Light, Preference, Prose, Redemption, Reptenance, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Taker, Talk, Thank, Thankfulness, Truth of God, Walk, Waltz, Ways, Woe
Leave a comment
The Healing Acceptance of Self
A poem of humility and gratitude # 12: The Healing Acceptance of Self by Michael Romani With gratitude, I accept myself No longer looking for answers from a shelf But, seeking instead to find peace from within Behind that wall … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absolution, Accept, Alone, Answers, Awake, Blade, Burn, Child, Christ, Cobblestone, Comfort, Compulsion, Confusion, Constant, Cut, Discovery, Divine, Drama, Drown, Dysfunction, Eternity, Fade, Family, God, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Heart, History, Humanity, Humility, Illusion, Love, Magic, Memory, Moment, Night, Pain, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Question, Rain, Reality, Recovery, Sand, Scheme, Self, Self Affliction, Serenity, Shadow, Silence, Sin, Soul, Steps, Tears, Time, Trap, Trauma, Unfinished Business, Victim, Wall, Warm, Within
Leave a comment
Given To the Fire
Halloween Poem #24: https://flic.kr/p/s4ZNhr Given To the Fire by Michael Romani Gazing on the precious cross Given to the fire with a toss One soul stood itself alone But, oh so, very lost and alone As if her heart were … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abyss, Alone, Atone, Aware, Battle, Begun, Best, Breath, Brutal, Candle, Close, Cross, Curse, Damned, Death, Destination, Dies, Embrace, End, End of Days, Eyes, Face, Fatal, Fire, Friend, Friends, Give, God, Goodbye, Halloween, Heart, Humanity, Immortality, Incarnate, Invoke, Kiss, Know, Life, Light, Love, Night, Offering, Pain, Pale, Peace On Earth, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Protection, Remorse, Run, Salvation, Sin, Soul, Squander, Stone, Suffering, Tear, Today, Vain, Wander, Whisper, Wisdom, Wolf, Wolf of God, Won
Leave a comment
Let Your World End
Halloween Poem #23: Let Your World End by Michael Romani Mother, can you forgive your son For all of the ungodly things That I have self-righteously done And for all of the pain that it brings As you call me … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Antiquity, Call, Cane, Edgar Allan Poe, End, Floor, Forgive, Halloween, Iniquity, Jade, Mind's Door, Mother, Name, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Rap, Self Righteous, Sin, Sins, Son, Tap, Ungodly, World
Leave a comment
Taken Path
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
Halloween Is Coming
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
The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
Leave a comment
Between Heaven and Earth
A whisper of a prayer… Between Heaven and Earth by Michael Romani Between Heaven and Earth There is a gate Between light and dark There falls a shadow Between faith and sin A whisper speaks a prayer My deepest confession … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Between, Birth, Confession, Dark, Death, Earth, Faith, Fall, Gate, God, Happiness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven, I, Know, Lie, Life, Light, Live, Love, Miracle, Mistake, My, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remorse, Right, Self, Shadow, Sin, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness, Whisper, Wrong
Leave a comment
What Is the Enough?
Of some things, we can never have enough. What Is the Enough? by Michael Romani Of nature, art and poetry All of these things dear to me There is never enough to be enough Nothing in the world can ever … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Art, Beauty, Behind, Being, Best Mark, Bluff, Canopy, Circumstance, Comfort, Enough, Find, Flower, God, Grown, Heavens, Hour, Human Being, Lonely, Meaning, Nature, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remedy, See, Shown, Sin, Solace, Tear, Time, Unhappy, Weep, Wilderness
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 