Tag Archives: Tales

Happy Mother’s Day, Too

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Apples, Bad, Best, Better, Blessed, Bliss, Button, Christmas Songs, Click, Company, Conversation, Country Road, Damage, Daughters, Day, Destinations, Done, Drive, Due, Eve, Ex Wife, Family, Fascination, Forever, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgotten, Friends, Girls, Go, God, Good, Grace, Gratitude, Happy Mother's Day, Highway, History, Homeward, I, Inter-State, Joke, Joyful, Laugh, Laughing, Listen, Made, Marvel, Mirror, Near, Pandemic, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Present, Radio, Realize, Return, Reveal, Road, Road Trip, Search, See, Seen, Shine, Short Hike, Sing, Slow Down, Song, Soul, State, Station, Sweet, Tales, Tell, The Girls, Think, Thinking, Together, Told, Tomorrow, Tree, Ugly, Vibrant, Watch, Way Back, Wrong, Youngest | Leave a comment

An Examination of Novels

Posted on May 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When it comes to fiction, there is no greater work of prose than the novel. An Examination of Novels by Michael Doyle A fiction in prose of a certain extent Presented in many ways of palatable content How further might … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allege, Art, Best Voice, Chronology, Circumstance, Classics, Complicate, Content, Define, Demand, Diversion, Division, Double Helix, Dreams, Embrace, Examination, Extent, Extraordinary, Fiction, Forms, Glory, Hamlet, Heroes, Human Beings, Irony, Jourmalism, Journal, Literature, Love, Mankind, Metafiction, Modality, Modes, Moments, Mortality, Mythology, Narrative, Novel, Novels, Ordinary, Palatable, Perspective, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Present, Pretense, Professionalism, Prose, Real Life, Realism, Refine, Romance, Smile, Story, Style, Superlative, Tales, True, Understanding, Words, World | Leave a comment

Rise of the Common Man

Posted on March 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

This next in the series on American history expounds on the events of the rise of Jacksonian Democracy which is seen a pivotal as the era of the common man and precipitating the American Civil War. Rise of the Common … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abolition, Age, Alexis Tocqueville, America, American Civil War, American History, Andrew Jackson, Appeal, Ascend, Attention, Bible, Bindness, Brawl, Breath, Celibacy, Christianity, Clay, Common Man, Common Touch, Community, Comparison, Compulsive, Constitution, Cultural, Culture, Death, Declaration of Independence, Deism, Depravity, Devil, Dignity, Divine Soul, Elitsm, Emerson, Esteem, Europe, Evangelism, Family, Finney, Flame, Forge, Franchise, Frederick Douglas, Freedom, Frontiersman, Grace, Hawthorne, Human Pride, Impulsive, Inaguration, Ink, Intellectual, Jacksonian Democracy, John Quincy Adams, Literary, Mankind, Mass Democracy, Message, Moment, Mormonism, Muse, Nation, North, Nurture, Observation, Open Road, Original Sin, Pace, Paper, Perfection, Photograph, Pivot, Poem, Poetry, Politics of Deference, Populism, Preference, Presidency, Pronounce, Radical Humanism, Reality, Rise, Self Determinism, Self Made, Seminal, Slavery, Social Equality, Social Reform, Soul, Spiritual, Supernatural, Symptom, System, Tales, The American Scholar, The People, Top, Torment, Tragedy, Travel, Trinity, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Unitarianism, Unkindness, Untamed, Utopia, Vanguard, Walt Whitman, Wayside, William Lloyd Garrison, Wirtten, Write | Leave a comment

Letters In the Window

Posted on March 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Typography choices are fascinatingly subtle and yet make all the difference. I struggle with seeing this as art. But, indeed it truly is. Letters In the Window by Michael Doyle Letters blended with sophistication Dependent on the reader’s appreciation … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appreciation, Art, Better, Black Letter, Canvas, Change, Crash, Culture, Design, Display, Ease, Ensnare, Eye, Font, Forward, Four, Geometry, Grip, Hype, Letters, Live, Manicules, Modern, Music, One Trick Pony, Oxygen, Parliment, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Primitive, Puzzle, Rap, Reader, Signature Moment, Smile, Sophistication, Square, Style, Subtle, System, Tales, Tread, Type, Typography, View, Watch Face, Window, Words | Leave a comment

A Return To the Sea

Posted on March 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A pirate’s lot remains on my mind today. To me, like many, there has always been a bit of allure to some of the legendary pirates. Not the least of these is a chapter in a book I aim to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Andrew Jackson, Banditry, Battle of New Orleans, Best, Call, Claim, Earn, End, Fatal, Fate, Final, Footnotes, Forgot, Gallantry, Gold, History, Jean Lafitte, Know, Legacy, Legend, Life, Lot, Me, Monument, Mystery, Photograph, Pirate, Poem, Poetry, Remains, Return, Sea, Sirens, Soul, Storm, Swallow, Tales, Told, Unwanted, Water, Whole, You | Leave a comment

A Writer’s Block

Posted on September 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Writing stories is a particular craft. There are numerous reasons that writers sometimes stop writing. But, when they do…. A Writer’s Block by Michael Romani Writing a story with acuity Is like mental archeology There’s madness in the methodology And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Archeology, Art, Author, Block, Bookend, Bury, Conceal, Contemplate, Craft, Creation, Dream, Fascination, Grow, Heart, Hidden, Interpretation, Know, Light, Literary, Madness, Mangle, Meaning, Mental, Method, New Day, Night, Photograph, Playground, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Snap Judgment, Story, Tales, Tangle, Theology, Truth, Twinkle, Wonder, Write | Leave a comment

Abstractiva

Posted on June 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Abstract art has it’s meanings if you look deep enough. Abstractiva by Michael Romani Chaotic, feathery strokes embrace The tempest that is grief Jagged streaks of rage turn to face The locked out ability to find relief Seeping outward in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Balance, Canvas, Chaos, Color, Crayon Studies, Dance, Devotion, Elegant, Embrace, Emotion, Eye, Grief, Harmony, Jagged, Journey, Kaleidoscope, Lock, Meaning, Morning, Organic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rage, Relevance, Relief, Scribble, Seep, Shards, Sting, Tales, Tempest, Truth, Whisper, Yellow Jacket | Leave a comment

Nostalgia For Guantanamo

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth | Leave a comment

Candle Light

Posted on November 28, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Tis the beginning of Christmas season .. yes, I know I don’t officially start until St Nicholas Day.. but.. well… Candle Light by Michael Romani A match is struck to light the candle And so begins the story on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Advent, Candle Light, Christmas, Craft, Mantle, Match, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, St Nicholas Day, Tales | Leave a comment

American Lion: Speaker of Truth

Posted on November 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Frederick Douglass was a Republican. I love when I read the Left try to work its way around that with lies and pretense and then try to make the case anything but than it was. The Republicans formed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, American History, American Lion, Believer, Chains, Change, Color, Confederacy, Contradiction, Craftwork, Democrats, Derision, Division, Equality, Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Hero, Humanity, Identity, Jim Crow, Liberty, Life, Marxist, Mock, Mortal Sin, Nation, Nuances, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Republican, Reverse Discrimination, Skin Color, Speak, Tales, Tension, Truth | Leave a comment