Tag Archives: After

Nine Lives

Posted on October 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Nine Livesby Michael DoyleIt wasn’t exactly love at first biteBut it took an encouraging inviteShe wanted a man who loved her brainAt long last, the search wasn’t in vainIt was a love affair made for a fewIt was time to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Alive, Beliefs, Brain, Broken Hearts, Conscience, Disaster, Done, Door, Families, Fate, First Bite, Gone, Grain, Grief, Haiti, Hang On, Hell, Hope, Horde, Invite, Lies, Lives, Love, Love Affair, Love Is Blind, Meant, New Tomorrow, Nine Lives, Optimists, Poetry and Poems, Ripped Apart, Say, Science, Scientist, Secrets, Sense of Humor, Sorrow, Strong, Struggle, Sun, Teeth, Think On, Vain, Way, What For, World | Leave a comment

Installation

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Installationby Michael DoyleIn this race of recurrenceMay we run it with enduranceThe baton passes in every generationThere is a strategy in this venerationLaying hands to pass authorityThis is the way of the legendaryTime passes in legs of this raceMaking changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Authority, Baton, Change of Power, Embrace, Endurance, Family, Future, Generation, God, Hope, Installation, Joined Together, Layer, Laying Hands, Legendary, Legs, Life, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Race, Raise, Reflect, Strategy, Veneration | Leave a comment

Stirred Up In Recipe

Posted on May 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Stirred Up In Recipeby Michael DoyleIt is hard to be ecstaticAbout a man who acts erraticNor is there a thrill in Bernie’s weekendThat gives anyone a reason to pretendThat we have any reason left to be reverentAbout just choosing something … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Anywhere, Believe, Bernie, Best Choices, Better Days, Choose, Comedians, Conspiracy, Corrected, Craven, Day-To-Day, Democracy, Depiction, Different, Dire, Directed, Disaster, Disrespectful, Ecstatic, Erratic, Face, Fiction, First Time, Graven, Grim, History, Laugh, Left, Look, Man, Mystery, Outcomes, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pray, Pretend, Prospects, Reason, Recipe, Republic, Reverent, Safe Place, Say, Situation, Solution, Stirred Up, Stranger, Thrill, Truth, Weekend, Wiling, Wire, Work Out, World, Worse | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: After A Shooting Spree, They Always Want To Take the Guns From the People Who Didn’t Do It

Posted on March 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” – … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged After, Live, Military, Police, Shooting Spree, Society, Take Guns Away, The People, Thought For the Day, Who Didn't Do It, William S. Burroughs | 1 Comment

Keeping Our Truth

Posted on September 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping Our Truthby Michael DoyleReaching out in my cognitionHoping that my thoughts and perceptionsMight find a little recognitionAnd from that grow some receptionLiving life under another’s definitionPoints in mockery at the deceptionAs we walk this world in disguiseKeeping our truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Best Outcome, Bold, Certain, Choice, Chose, Cognition, Creativity, Deception, Definition, Destination, Destiny, Disguise, Do the Math, Edge, Explore, Eyes, Find My Way, Grow, Head, Imagination, Inner Voice, Journey, Keep, Know, Laughter, Living Life, Mock, Originality, Other, Path, Perceptions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reaching Out, Reception, Recognition, Restrain, Step, Stumble, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, World | Leave a comment

Tavern Dice

Posted on July 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Much of life is lived as though on a roll of the dice. Game of chance and circumstance lived with our best intentions. Tavern Dice by Michael Doyle With a roll of dice A gamble is made For something nice … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, After, Best Intentions, Broken Melody, Circumstance, Crookedly Weighted, Dare, Deception, Dice, Die, Discard, Evil, Familiar, Fix, Gamble Made, Game of Chance, Laughter, Lies, Life, Lived, Minstel, Name of Heaven, Nice, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ramble, Roll of the Dice, Same, Score, Seven, Snake Eyes, Tavern, This Game, You and Me | Leave a comment

First Principles: Keep Your Eyes Wide Open Before Marriage, Half Shut Afterwards

Posted on April 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” – Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack

Posted in First Principles | Tagged After, Before, Benjamin Franklin, Eyes, First Principles, Half Shut, Keep, Marriage, Open, Poor Richard's Almanack, Wide | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: First We Shape Our Buildings, Then They Shape Us

Posted on April 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Winston S Churchill

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged After, Buildings, Notre Dame Cathedral, Shape, Thought For the Day, Us, We, Wintson Churchill | Leave a comment

Echo Chambers of Disbelief

Posted on March 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Beware the monsters under our beds.. but worse still are the monsters just behind the veneer we casually wear…. Echo Chambers of Disbelief by Michael Romani In a thousand seedy places There are monsters behind faces Playing cleverly as saying … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Cancer, Chamber, Chase, Choke, Clever, Commotion, Dancer, Death, Depth, Disaster, Disbelief, Dream, Dreamer, Echo, Emotion, Facade, Face, Friend, Grace, Grief, Illusion, Irony, Know, Life Dream, Monster, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Seedy Place, Shallow, Stillborn | Leave a comment