Tag Archives: Appearance

Thought For the Day: A Landscape Does Not Exist In Its Own Right, Since Its Appearance Changes At Every Moment; But the Surrounding Atmosphere Brings It To Life

Posted on December 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Air, Appearance, Atmosphere, Change, Claude Monet, Contnuous, Every Moment, Exist, Landscape, Life, Light, Right, Thought For the Day, True Value | Leave a comment

Beneath the Skin

Posted on April 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Beneath the Skinby Michael DoyleThere just beneath my skinAs simple as you pleaseIs the real me that beginsWith the will not to appeaseBut to be just who I am insideBehind my appearance, I hideDisguised by the roles I playIs the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appearance, Appease, Beneath, Blues, Disguise, Fiction, Guitar, Heart, Hide, Horror, Inside, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Me, Road, Roles, Short Story, Simple, Skin, Str, Tales, Thousand voices, Writing | Leave a comment

First Principles: In the Last Days There Will Come Times of Difficulty. For People Will Be Lovers of…Pleasure Rather Than Lovers of God…Avoid Such People

Posted on November 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Appearance, Arrogant, Avoid, Difficulty, Disobedient To Their Parents, First Principles, Godliness, Heartless, Last Days, Lovers of God, Lovers of Pleasure, Lovers of Self, Money, Power, Proud, Ungrateful, Unholy | Leave a comment

Happy Death Day!

Posted on March 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Happy Death Day!by Michael DoyleSplitting hangover starts the dayAgain and again in instant replayYou’re certain you have been here beforeFrom what’s seen, you don’t need thinking any moreDespite appearances, you won’t feel better tomorrowYour two choices are either fear or … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again and Again, Alley, Answers, Appearance, Before, Beleated, Better, Broken Dreams, Cause, Celebration, Certain, Coming Apart, Curtain, Dead, Death, Delirium, Despite, Disorder, Equilibrium, Fear, Hangover, Happy Death DAy, Head, Hurt, Idiocy, Instant Replay, Invitation, Kissed, Last Breath, Leave, Life, Life Grinds, Lucky, Missed, Pain, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Run, Sanity, Seams, Search, Seen, Self, Shelf, Sorrow, Think, This Day, Through, Tomorrow, Two Choices, Universal | Leave a comment

To London, Across the Sea

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further retelling of Dracula in poetic form: To London, Across the Sea by Michael Doyle In a tested game of chess A knight is menacing a queen The losing side will confess What this really means A voyage has … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Age, Agreement, All, Appearance, Array, Attached, Breath, Broken Down, Canopy, Chess, Coffin, Complication, Confess, Conversation, Crul, Damnation, Dark, Deaf and Dumb, Death, Destination, Destroyer, Detached, Door, Dracula, Drape, Elegance, Eternity, Eyes, Eyes To See, Fear, Feared, Flies, Fog, Fragile, Glory, Good, Good Company, Hard, Hunger, Intuition, Journey, Knight, Known, Life, Light, Listen, London, Losing Side, Mark, Master, Master of Darkness, Means, Menace, Middle, Necessary Evil, Night, Nightfall, Obvious, Passage, Penalty, Photograph, Plain, Plans, Poem, Poetry, Price, Queen, Ravenous, Read, Sail, Scratches, Sea, Shaking Hands With the Devil, Ship, Slavery, Speak, Spice, Stark, Story, Strangeness, Tale, Test, Travel, Truth, Turns, Understand, Voyage, Vulgarity, Wages, Wickedness | Leave a comment

At the Speed of Light (Embrace the Blur)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In this pandemic, I am not especially getting a lot of outside time, right? But, I am sort of reviewing photography fundamentals. Anyone else studying anything or reviewing anything while a whole lot of inactivity is going on? At … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acorn, Air, Anticipate, Appearance, Artistic, Blind, Blur, Blurring, Blurry, Capture, Change, Connection, Crocodile Smile, Crucial, Curtain, Dab, Decide, Direction, Dog, Eloquent, Embrace, Exposure, Fast, Feeling, Flow, Forgot, Ghosting, Guide, Hear, Heart, Heartfelt, Hog, Iconic, Know, Lens, Light, Lock Down, Mile, Millimeter, Minute, Moment, Motion, Oblivious, Obvious, Pandemic, Panned Action, Phase Change, Photograph, Photographer, Photography, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quick, Satisfaction, Shot, Shutter Speed, Sink, Slow, Smile, Spark, Speed of Light, Spigot, Time, Unafraid, Wag, Water Drop | Leave a comment

Logos and Graffiti

Posted on March 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Typeface is so much an integral part of our every day life. Yet, let me be the first to admit how little I really put any thought into this… Logos and Graffiti by Michael Doyle Walking the streets of New … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appearance, Believe, Beneath, Complexity, Conceive, Contrast, Correction, Dialog, Elemental, Fundamental, Graffiti, Interpretation, Last, Letters, Logo, Magic, New York City, Overshot, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Shape, Simplicity, Typeface, Understand, Words, Written Culture | Leave a comment

Creativity’s Golden Seed

Posted on February 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Coming soon to a mind near yours, the golden opportunity of a lifetime to have reasonable comfort while focusing on writing and photography. More information soon… let the transition begin… Creativity’s Golden Seed by Michael Romani The problem in its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Appearance, Application, Balance, Change, Conception, Conform, Creativity, Crux, Cut to the Chase, Deal, Deception, Definition, Defmor, Design, Ease, Exist, Eye, Find, First Step, Gold, Good, Gravity, Illusion, Important, Imposition, Moment, Momentum, Need, New Goals, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Problem, Question, Reason, Scale, Seed, Seek, Self Delusion, Severity, Signal, Simplicity, Superficial, Supplication, Touch, Transition, Troll, Understood, Why, Zenith | Leave a comment

Valentine Thoughts 2020

Posted on February 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Beautiful weekend spent in part with two little princesses that I adore and a lady who is the queen of my heart. One later for the girls. One for my lady just written: Valentine Thoughts 2020 by Michael Romani To … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Appearance, Beauty, Begin, Blind, Catch, Connection, Control, Core, Deception, Deep, Dream, Everything, Fall, Find, Float, Forget, Grand Slam, Heart, Hours, Intimate, Knee, Life, Love Song, Loved, Mind, Open, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Real, Right, Sight, Smile, Sought, Soul, Space, Start, Talk, Thoughts, True, Truth, Unconditionally, Valentine's Day, Walk, Walls, Weekend, Zen | Leave a comment

Afrofuturistic

Posted on January 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Design and empathy feed off each other in telling many tales. One of these is the telling of Black America’s history and a guiding light into the future. Afrofuturistic by Michael Romani Life can be a bit frantic For the … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Accident, Afro, Anoint, Appearance, Beauty, Black America, Boogie, Breath, Color, Dedication, Derogatory, Design, Details, Education, Empathy, Entry, Escape, Everything, Exploitive, Fanatic, Fashion, Frantic, Freedom, Future, God, Harlem, Hip Hop, History, Humanity, Humble, Instill, Intricate, Journey, Kinectic, Liberty, Library, Life, Line, Lost, Mechanistic, Neighborhood, Passion, Perfectionist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Refine, Renaissance, Reveal, Significance, Something, Story, Tell, True, Truth, Whisper | Leave a comment