Tag Archives: Struggle

Looking Forward With Clarity

Posted on February 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on a 02022020 Sunday sermon.: Looking Forward With Clarity by Michael Romani If your eye is the light of darkness Not too speak too much in harshness But you won’t see so much with clarity That sometimes … Continue reading →

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To Life (L’Chaim)

Posted on January 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sundays like all other days are best lived with at least a touch of reverence for the divine. To Life (L’Chaim) by Michael Romani Life is long And often filled with questions Too many of which have no answers Only … Continue reading →

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Hole Inside My Gospel

Posted on January 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I know that I’m not the only one who is a believer. Nor am I the only one amazed at the things he does despite believing, right? Still…. Hole Inside My Gospel by Michael Romani Like so many among the … Continue reading →

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Gratitude For A Unified Field of Connection

Posted on November 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A poem in the light of gratitude #20: Gratitude For A Unified Field of Connection by Michael Romani Increasingly one for less and less punctuality While I search for gratitude as my reality I find much of it has to … Continue reading →

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A Bleakness of Breath

Posted on October 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing on my semi-gothic mood, Halloween Poem #8: A Bleakness of Breath by Michael Romani In a cemetery of bleakness Down from the Devil’s house In a coldness that speaks of this There is a tremble as quiet as a … Continue reading →

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Rose’s Thorn

Posted on October 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #3 Rose’s Thorn by Michael Romani The rose’s thorn bled it’s blood Chosen to drag my soul through the mud Clever thought I in the transparency Lost in its morbid transcendency Condemned to the darkened dust Struggling in … Continue reading →

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Ways of Survival

Posted on September 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading →

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To Find Happiness

Posted on August 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I think maybe a bit dour… To Find Happiness by Michael Romani I have been fighting to survive From the day I was born Struggling just to stay alive To find happiness and not be forlorn I have walked each … Continue reading →

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Fades Away

Posted on August 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Life leaves us all, eventually… or, do we really transform into something else? Time will tell. Fades Away by Michael Romani Being somewhat civilized I kept my discontents to myself More probably cause I realized I’d find my better answers … Continue reading →

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Be True

Posted on June 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Bard said and we’ve all felt it. The Bible says it too. Truth shall set us free, right? Be True by Michael Romani There is a secret to life Where we persist through strife That is to always be … Continue reading →

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