Tag Archives: Water

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

I Am the Ocean

Posted on April 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17 and the challenge is to write a poem from an unusual perspective. What if a drop of water thought it was the ocean itself?… I Am the Ocean by Michael Romani I am the ocean I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Alpha, Bit, Clear, Cosmic, Devotion, Divinity, Embrace, First, Flow, Forget, Future, God, Head, I, Know, Last, Light, Might, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obstacle, Ocean, Omega, Past, Perspective, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Recall, Respect, Saline, Sea, See, Shape, Signifigence, Smile, Song, Summer's Day, Trace, Truth, Wash, Water, Watery Grave, Wave, Wet, Whole | 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

First Reasons Lost

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

What becomes of our individual worlds when our first reasons are lost? First Reasons Lost by Michael Romani First reasons have been lost And with that loss comes a cost The giving up when it becomes Too much to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusations, Another, Busy Day, Call, Closed Eyes, Cold, Compassion, Conception, Cost, Dare, Demanding, Doubt, Down, Dreams, Drown, Fall, Fear, First Reason, Giving up, Good Lord, Gray, Imagine, Inquisition, Lashing Out, Listen, Lost, Love, Matter, Miraclees, Nightmare, Numb, Other, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Real, Requisition, Reveal, Rope, See, Self Inflict, Shatter, Snare, Snowfall, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Trap, True Light, Understanding, Voyage, Water, Winter, World | Leave a comment

To Harvest the Wind: School Daze

Posted on March 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Part I in a series under development: To Harvest the Wind: School Daze by Michael Romani I. A breeze touches the savanna grass As the tribesmen dance in a pass Harvesting corn; some barely living This harsh life can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Africa, Brutal, Corn, Daze, Decision, Democracy, Dream, Education, Engrave, Fire, Fruit, Government, Harsh Life, Harvest, Headmaster, High Stakes, Jungle, Kindness, Know, Kuefesa, Legacy, Life, Morn, Opportunity, Peace, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Prayer, Price, Rain, Savanna, School, School Clothes, Seeds, Sky, Sow, Struggle, Take, Tobacco, Tribe, Village, Water, Wind | Leave a comment

Patience In Action

Posted on December 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

I suppose that every creative thinker knows this. Maybe we all do? Patience In Action by Michael Romani Rodin says that patience is action I do believe I see this satisfaction No matter what direction that I turn It’s there … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Action, Blindness, Direction, Kindness, Learn, Patience, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Repentance, Rock, Rodin, Rule, Satisfaction, School, Shore, Splash, Time, Transform, Tyranny, Water, Wave, Wind | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Ripples

Posted on September 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Mother Ocean lives out her stories Filled with enough of her own glories Washed ashore on ripples of her power Mankind’s presence felt like seconds to her hour It’s said that most of this world is water Making humanity the … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Consequence, Daily Prompt, Fear, Glory, Goodness, Home, Mankind, Mother Ocean, Ripples, Sons and Daughters, Story, Sublime, Time, Water, World | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Thin

Posted on May 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There’s a thin line between thunder And the lightning that strikes, she thought Between the water that pulls you under And the gasping breath reached for and sought There’s a thin line between love and what’s mine Selfishness and desire … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Breath, Daily Prompt, Family, Grumble, Lightning, Love, Mumble, Possession, Pulled Under, Thin, Thunder, Valentine, Water, Wordpress | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Typical

Posted on March 5, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

It wasn’t going to be a typical day Something in the water told me right away Whole lot of teeth for just one smile Might be worse that a crocodile Thinking to myself, I better splash this away A quick … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Benign, Daily Prompt, Danger, Day, Life, Prayer, Shark, Signs, Splash, Stranger, Teeth, Typical, Water, Wordpress | Leave a comment