Tag Archives: Surprise

Meanders At the Oxbow

Posted on April 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 29 and the challenge is to write on the after thoughts about a strong emotion and its results. This is my attempt to clarify thoughts I had just yesterday about the days prior and the future that … Continue reading →

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Sonnet For A Modern Love

Posted on April 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

This 27th day of Na/GloPoWriMo raises the bar to writing a sonnet. They, whoever they is, say that sonnets are usually about romantic interests, dark ladies or distant men. Okay! I think I go this one. But, I’m going to … Continue reading →

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Filthy Habits

Posted on April 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It seems to me that most of humans have a little duality in our nature. I could be wrong. I often am. Filthy Habits by Michael Romani The beast seeks the dark The angel seeks the light The physician said … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Beast, Dark, Duality, Eyes, Filthy Habit, Human Nature, Light, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sight, Snark, Surprise, Window | Leave a comment

The Root Cause

Posted on March 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in my series pertinent to things going on with my health, the influences of someone proving to be very special to me and my advocation of the integration of more traditional medical perspectives into the Western Medicine I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Autoimmune, Better End, Body, Cause, Confound, Depend, Devine, Devotion, Drama, Ease, Effect, Embrace, Emotion, Encourage, Endure, Food, God's Law, Hand, Health, Hope, Hurt, Ill, Integration, Know, Lifestyle, Listen, Medicine, Nature's Laws, Negative, Nurse, Nutrition, Optimism, Origin, Pathogen, Photograph, Pill, Poem, Poetry, Profound, Quick Fix, Root, Secret Cure, Shown, Sick Care System, Sign, Simplicity, Skepticism, Smile, Society, Spiral, Still, Surprise, Symptoms, Talk, Temple, Torment, Toxicity, Tradition, Trauma, Unkown, Walk, Wellness | Comments Off

Things I’m Learning From You

Posted on March 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to all those I like and love however imperfectly… Things I’m Learning From You by Michael Romani I’ve long sought my authenticity Pursuing it with great integrity Only to find that in the much I believed I was too … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Begun, Beileve, Calvary, Checkered Past, Cherish, Clarity, Close, Deceived, Fell, Forgive, Gaffe, Gain, Grew, History, Hurt, Ignorance, Imperfect, Indecision, Integrity, Intimacy, Knew, Laugh, Learn, Love, Memory, Mind, Monkey, Morning, Night, One, Pain, Pajama Party, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sincere, Sleepless, Smile, Soul, Sun, Surprise, Twenty Questions, Two, Words, You | Leave a comment

Felt (The Loss of Shangri-la)

Posted on January 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s interesting. This poem started of with the intention of being a lighthearted look at the sort of a person who would look at Shangri-La an think that all it’s missing is a casino. By the time, my pen hit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Blues, Break Up, Breath, Burden, Burn, Cost, Darkness, Dream, Easy, Embrace, Eyes, Face, Feel, Felt, Flow, Forbidden, Forever After, Happiness, Hurt, Kiss, Laugh, Laughter, Lifetime, Light, Lonely, Loss, Lost, Man, Minute, Miss, Moment, Once Upon A Time, Pain, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhyme, Rising Star, Rite of Passage, Shake, Shangri-La, Silent, Sleepless Night, Solitary, Soul, Star-shine, Step, Surprise, Thought, Touch, Treasure, True, Wake, Wonder, Word, World | Leave a comment

The Dreams We Need

Posted on December 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

As a society, we spend too much time trying to stifle the dreams of both children and the inner most child in all of us. We misplace our values, thinking that dreams are merely wants. We dream to dream. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agreed, Awake, Ballet Slippers, Bliss, Care, Child, Child's Heart, Children, Dance, Dreams, Edge, Fabric, Find, Give, Glow, Happy, Kiss, Laugh, Light, Light Show, Love, Memory, Mind, Money, Moonbeam, Music, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Razzle Dazzle, Safe, Serenade, Share, Sleep, Smile, Society, Style, Surprise, Take, Universe, Verse, Vision, Waking Moment, Wish | Leave a comment

As All Moments Measure

Posted on November 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

I firmly agree with the proposition that it’s how we live the moments of our lives and not how many we get that matters most. As All Moments Measure by Michael Romani In each moment we treasure As all moments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Body, Chatter, Desire, Embers, Eyes, Fatal, Fire, Glisten, Guidance, Heaven, Immortal, Life, Listen, Live, Love, Matter, Measure, Moments, Passions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Relent, Shadow, Strength, Surprise, Sweet, Treasure, Trust | Leave a comment

Stitch In Time (Bride of Frankenstein)

Posted on October 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

A different sort of look at an old story. Stitch In Time (Bride of Frankenstein) by Michael Romani The things we have as we venture Living life as a grand adventure Sometimes it’s more than pride can take When it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bride of Frankenstein, Challenges, Compromise, Constrain, Corset, Cruelty, Darkness, Death's Kiss, Deception, Decisions, Dragons, Grand Adventure, Journey, Light, Losing Game, Mend, Pain, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Pride, Slay, Smile, Steps, Stitch, Subterfuge, Surprise, Time, Torture, Vain, Venture, Whisper | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Memories Are Often Built Around the Small Details

Posted on October 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.” – Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Barbara Kingsolver, Details, Memory, Small, Surprise, Thought For the Day, Unnoticed | Leave a comment