Tag Archives: Abstraction

For Sierra (At Age 14)

Posted on May 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For Sierra (At Age 14)by Michael DoyleThough sometimes now, I have to squint To get the clue of what it is you meantThis poem is for you as you reach 14Growing into one of my favorite human beingsWhether it’s building … Continue reading →

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Shoreline Levee Abstraction

Posted on October 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Shoreline Levee Abstractionby Michael DoyleWithout the world’s imposed inhibitionsYou find life without so many limitationsWaiting for you below the surface, we keepThe sands of time as these start to seepPouring through our hands as these flowIs a new depth for … Continue reading →

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Holding Hands With the Sun

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me | Leave a comment

Finished Ideas

Posted on January 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

To design for toying or for play allows the imagination to stray. Does it not? Finished Ideas by Michael Romani Finished ideas Have no place In the imagination All idylls To embrace With our fascination The only limitation Is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Circumstance, Design, Distraction, Elimination, Embrace, Fascination, Finish, Heart, Idea, Idyll, Imagination, Limitation, Object, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Start, Then, Things, Toy, Way, When | Leave a comment

Thankful In Collaboration

Posted on November 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking on art and design, a poem of gratitude for its immersive collaboration. A poem in gratitude #21: Thankful In Collaboration by Michael Romani Designs of light In abstraction Just might Be created in collaboration Subtle changes Create the color … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Ah-Ha, Art, Blue, Breadth, Breath, Change, Collaboration, Color, Create, Design, Drawn, Embrace, Experience, Exude, Feeling, Foundation, Gratitude, Heart, Immersive, Latitude, Light, Link, Mood, Observer, Photograph, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Rearrange, Red, Reeling, Relax, Room, Saturation, Soul, Space, Step, Thankful, Wake, Wow, Yellow | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Standard English Is A Convenient Abstraction

Posted on March 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Standard English is a convenient abstraction, like the average man.” – George Leslie Brook, English professor, author (1910-1987)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Abstraction, Convenience, English, George Leslie Brook, Language, Standard, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is the Flaws That Helps Create Beauty

Posted on February 2, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” – Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2 Feb 1859-1939)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absence, Abstraction, Beauty, Flaw, Havelock Ellis, Thought For the Day, Truth | Leave a comment

Constant Flux

Posted on January 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Constant Flux by Michael Romani Poetry finds its way to breach distance As two hearts meld into one romance This life is for the living Though often harsh and unforgiving Still, it is only death that makes life immortal As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Circle, Concrete, Constant, Contradiction, Distance, Dreamers, Flux, Immortal, Living, Obliteration, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Romance, Unforgiving | Leave a comment

A Sort of Jazzy Sonnet

Posted on August 5, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

A Sort of Jazzy Sonnet by Michael Romani Lost in an abstraction of truth I spent the morning with the jazz That I loved so much in my youth A rhythmic kick of funky pizzazz Filled with that subtle incongruency … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Alive, Incongruent, Jazz, Phrasing, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, So What, Sonnet, Take Five | Leave a comment