Tag Archives: Beat

Kalavale

Posted on December 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Kalavaleby Michael Doyle In a Finnish woodWhere life is understoodTo be a magical thingThere were songs to singAnd laughter filled the airThe night washed away careAs we looked on the beautyThere amidst the trees A different music filled the airWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arttist, Beat, Beauty, Care, Celebration, Colors, Dance, Dreams, Fascination, Finland, Finnish, Finnish Folk Art, Fire, Inspire, Kalavale, Laughter, Magical, Mead, Music, Night, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Romance, Satisfied, Sigh, Smoke, Songs, Stem van Helsinki, Strangers, Trance, Trees, Understood, Why, Wood | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #22: As A Sign of the Times

Posted on April 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #22: As A Sign of the Timesby Michael DoyleAs a sign of the timesThe last book I readWas read onlinePoetry told no longer rhymesNor does it impart lesson or deedYet, as an art, they call this fineAs a sign … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Battle Flags, Beat, Become Our Ways, Blurred, Brave New World, Bravest Hearts, Charge, Considered Light, Contemporary Days, Criminals, Darkness, Dearest, Deed, Devils, Discussions, Elections, Engraved, Estranged, Exchanged, Fail To Condone, Few Rules, Fine, Fools, Garbo, Good Lord, Gorillas, Governed, Great Peace, Hard Cuts, I Have Heard, Impart, Into Life, Last Book, Last Photo, Laugh In Tears, Lesson, Lessons and Lies, Living In Isolation, Look, Made, Masked, Masterpieces, Mockery, Musicians, My Own, My Phone, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nearest, No Longer, Online, Our Nation, Paint, Passes for Thought, Perilous Times, Pinched Fingers, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Police, Quick Edits, Rhyme, Rhymes, Right, Saints, Sample, Sign, Socially Distanced, Stands Alone, Steady Gaze, Stealing, Stone, Stones, Straight Ahead, Street Crimes, These Days, Times, Tyrants, Unfurled, Wants To Be Alone, Willing, Won, Zoom | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #19: St Patrick’s Day Kiss

Posted on April 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #19: St Patrick’s Day Kissby Michael DoyleLike a lucky man wondering ifYou’d always beMy lucky charmLiving in a moment’s blissIt was easy to seeAnother kiss could do no harmGotta phone that message inLet it ring true, again and againLong … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affection, Another Kiss, Beat, Better, Borrow, Complete, Connection, Could Do No Harm, Cup of Sweetness, Destination, Easy To see, Eyes, Find, Finding Love, Gladly Return, Hands, Intention, Irish Street, Isolation, Kiss, Knows, Love, Lucky Man, Meet, Message, Moment's Bliss, More Than Talk, My Heart, My Lucky Charm, My Soul, Na/GloPoWriMo, Old, Our, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Ring True, Seen, Sighs, Solitary, St Patrick's Day, Sweet, Together, Tomorrows, Touch, Two Hearts, Walk, Your Song | Leave a comment

Split the Difference

Posted on January 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Split the Differenceby Michael DoyleKicking back with my girls on the holidaysSharing life with them in a million waysWhen we happened on a soulful snip of movieWith a lot of heart that played out groovyThere in the middle of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 3-D, Abstract, Beat, Celestial Concept, Complicated Hearts, Culture, Difference, Displayed, Dreams, Each of Us, Enough, Every Bit, Everyone, Explore, Fascination, Fluff, Forgot, Future, Get Jazzy, Great Before, Greater, Groovy, Hear, Holidays, Improvised Part, In REach, Inference, Ink Dab, Jazz, Joy, Keep, Kicking Back, Known, Learn, Lennon, Lesson, Life, Living Our Soul, Lot of Heart, Lyric, Meaning of Life, Middle, Million Ways, Moment, Movie, My Girls, Nature, Needed Role, Nurture, Our Meaning To Others, Panorama, Parts, Photograph, Plausibility, Play, Played Out, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Postulation, Preach, Present, Probability, Pseudo-Intellectual, Punditry, Repartee, Say, Screens, Shadows, Sharing Life, Soul, Soulful, Split, Splitting the Difference, Stories, Subtle, Sum, Super Stars, Teach, The Streets, Tough, Twist, Waiting, Wonders of Life | Leave a comment

The Twinkle In Your Eyes

Posted on October 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Twinkle In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleLooking into the twinkle in your eyesTruth is told simply without any alibisI love the way you hold me close at nightAnd even closer with the morning’s lightTwo hearts learning to beat as our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beat, Chance, Deeper Relationship, Easy, Eyes, God, Hear, Hold Me Close, Hypnotized, Lifetime Spent, Look, Love, Love Songs, Loving Example, Melt, Moments, Morning Light, Near, Night, One, Passing Sun, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simple, Sing, Sweet, Tender, Trance, Truth, Twinkle, Two Hearts, You Laugh, Your Eyes, Your Heart | Leave a comment

To Find A Friend

Posted on July 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The world is a sometimes scary place, particularly when it comes to the heart, isn’t it? To Find A Friend by Michael Doyle To find a friend In this friendless world Toward this end I lay fetal and curled Is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Another, Back Against the Wall, Bath, Beat, Being Alone, Curl, Darkness, Depend, Dream, Each Other, Fetal, Find, Fist, Friend, Friendless, Gold, Guide, Harshness, Heart, Home, I, Light, Magic of Trust, Must, Myself, Never Again, Night, One Heart, One Soul, One Thing, Other, Our, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Purity, Scary Place, Share, Stay Alive, Survive, Together, Too Much, Toward This End, Truest End, Uncurled, Willing, World, Worth | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Posted on April 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 22 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The optional prompt being to use an idiomatic phrase from another language or popular in another country as a starting point. Manuscripts Don’t Burn by Michael Doyle Years ago when I was younger Words ate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Ate, Beat, Belong, Burn, Commit, Concept, Country, Dangerous, Dead, Edition, Embrace, Fear, Feel, Felt, Freedom of Press, Frustration, Government, Hunger, Ideas, Idiom, Jail, Learn, Legacy, Light, Live, Long, Manuscirpts, Marketplace, Memory, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Notion, Oral Tradition, Pdd, Photograph, Phrase, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Proud, Rulers, Satire, Say, Sense, Sentiment, Song, Stories, Strong, Tale, Tears, Tell, Thought, View, Way, Words, Write, Written Down, Years, Young | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Just Can’t Beat the Person Who Never Gives Up

Posted on March 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth Remember this in the days ahead. Keep encouraged. Be strong. Keep following the necessary sanitation rules. In this case more than ever cleanliness is next to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Babe Ruth, Be Strong, Beat, Encourage, Give Up, Never, Person, Thought For the Day, You | Leave a comment

Sidewalk Communication

Posted on February 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The city is a place of connection in its own way. Fusions of thought and experiences blend into that special something that helps the creative process. Sidewalk Communication by Michael Romani Hustled and bustled to the point of hassled The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beat, Better, Blend, Blur, Bounce, Busy, Cacophony, Change, City, Communication, Complex, Connection, Conversation, Creative, Deficit, Endless, Experience, Feet, Flow, Fusion, Graffitti, Heart, Hustle, Ideas, Ignore, Insinuation, Integrate, Interpretations, Lead, Life, More, Notice, Overheard, Photograph, Pinball, Pique, Poem, Poetry, Process, Recall, Sidewalk, Sights, Simple, Soul, Sound, Speak, Speed, Street, Sublime, Subway, Swim, Time, Touch, Trinket, Whisper, Window, Word, Wrestle | Leave a comment