Tag Archives: Talk

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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Summer, Newport Beach

Posted on April 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, Day 25 and the challenge is to write a poem that incorporates: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bain de Soleil, Balboa Pier, Beach House, Breeze, Brothers, Contact High, Cousin, Crab, Crash, Fire Pit, Growing Up, Huntington Beach, Jetty, Ladies, Na/GloPoWriMo, Newport Beach, Ocean, Older, Paddle, Park, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rock, Saltwater, Season, Sense, Shoreline, St Tropez, Summer, Sunshine, Surf, Talk, Tan, The Zoo, Water, Wave, Young | Leave a comment

Like Dominoes Falling

Posted on April 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abyss, Anger, Behind, Brave, Brilliance, Brother, Carry, Close, Cry, Curse, Dad, Darkness, Deadly, Death, Die, Domino, Dose, Explode, Fall, Family, Fear, Firefighter 54, Foot, Forget, Friends, Frown, God, God Parents, Grief, Grieve, Hell, Helpless, Implode, Me, Memory, Mom, Next, Pass, Pen to Paper, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Pox, Pray, Prayer, Read, Resilience, Secret, Severe, Sister, Slow, Smile, Stars, Step, Stiff Upper Lip, Talk, There, Thought, Time, Torn, Upside Down, Walk, Weight, Whisper, Wonder, World, Write, Year | Leave a comment

Relative Complicity

Posted on April 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 12 asks that we who take up the challenge of finding something dull that we’re willing to give away. Well, sorry, but I’m twisting this into something that can never be owned, only given and that is so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Attraction, Beautiful, Beauty, Brave, Breathtaking, Clarity, Complicity, Distance, Einstein, Extraordinary, Given, Good, Gravity, Grow, Heart, Hold Onto, Hour, Imposture, Insist, Journey, Love, Me and You, Mean, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obscene, One, Our, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Power of Love, Presistence, Rarity, Realize, Relative, Routine, Scene, Share, Shown, Simplicity, Soul, Speak, Spectacular, Start, Strong, Surrender, Talk, Tender, Together, Unfold, Unknown, Wonderful, World | 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

The Do Nothing Days

Posted on March 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

My inner child likes yours more than a little, he said… The Do Nothing Days by Michael Romani The do nothing days come to pass With only their memories held; alas Kept as long as we can in our minds … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Behind, Childhood, Cling, Crime, Do Nothing Days, Done, End, Fond, Force, Forget, Friends, Hurry Along, Kept, Lifetime, Live, Memory, Mend, Message, Minds, Pass, Pastimes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Regret, Shade, Talk | Leave a comment

The Very Best of Something

Posted on March 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Out there in the Hundred Acre Woods, there are a lot of tales to be told. Some happy and filled with joy. Some are bittersweet such as the feelings that come at childhood’s end… The Very Best of Something by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Foot, Best of Me, Bittersweet, Bouncy, Childhood, Childhood's End, Complete, Cry, Daydream, Doing Nothing, Dream, End, Enthusiasm, Family, Family of Choice, Favorite Place, Friend, Gone, Good, Goodbye, Heart, Hello, Hundred Acre Woods, Imaginary, Life, Me and You, Memory, Montage of Images, Nowhere, Optimism, Photograph, Picnic, Poem, Poetry, Pot Full of Honey, Real, Sendoff, Share, Smile, So Long, Something, Sweet, Tackle Life Head On, Talk, Those, Thought, Trouncy, Two, Very Best, Yesteryear | Leave a comment

Hello Brother

Posted on March 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Hatred stokes the fear that burns across our world in random outcroppings of rage and destruction. That being said, to take away the people’s right to bear arms and defend themselves seems like an ill thought out consequence, Madam Prime … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Being, Brother, Different, Disdain, Ears, End, Fascist, Fear, God, Greet, Hate, Heart, Insane, Late, Love, New Zealand, Pain, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Reason, Release, Reverent, See, Smile, Talk, Wait, Walk, World | Leave a comment

A Study On Passover

Posted on March 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Some have accused me of being a fool for God…. To them, I reply. Why yes, thank you, I am… but I am your fool. Dedicated to God and to serving my fellow humanity. It matters not how little … Continue reading →

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Tapestry of Change and Joy

Posted on February 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Cor.: Tapestry of Change and Joy by Michael Romani Praising our Lord and God in song and dance Loving the happenstance of our second chance Our God of second chances always there and willing To … Continue reading →

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