Tag Archives: Better

Slips of the Tongue

Posted on August 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Slips of the Tongueby Michael DoyleSlips of the feeble tongueCome more often when no longer youngThings ill thought should often not be saidBut instead kept inside one’s headOur lives are played out like a movieSometimes hellbent though that doesn’t move … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Actual, Another, Awkward, Bad Decisions, Best, Better, Better Way, Charm, Clarity, Cling, Conspire, Copping Out, Dancing, Day To Day, Dealt, Derision, Desire, Dig Out of the Dirt, Doing Best, Embrace, End, Face to Face, Fade In, Fed, Feeble, Feel, Felt, Foot, Fragility, Freely, Front, Fully, Half, Hands, Harm, Head, Hearts, Hold Out, Hope, Hurts, Ill Thought, Intended, Kept Inside, Know, Less, Life, Lives, Living It Up, Make Believe, Masquerade, Means, Measured, Mouse, Move Me, Movie, Next Day, Often, Opening Scene, Other, Our Own Devices, Out of Control, Party, Photograph, Place, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Premature, Realization, Roles, Roll Through, Said, Seek, Self, Slips, Sorrow, Start, Times, Tongue, Trap, Truths, Unintended, Universe, Wicked, Wrap, Young | Leave a comment

Stuck With the Blahs

Posted on July 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Talking to a friend who was feeling in a rut and then the same theme showed up in a song and then a show. From this came two things. First wow.. if you don’t like what you’re doing or how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better, Betwixt and Between, Blah, Change, Day After Day, Despite, Doing My Best, Down In the Dumps, Feeling, Finding Me, Finding Out, Flaw, Friend, Good Cause, Hope, Human Beings, Humanity, Keep It Together, Know, Lumps, Matters, Mean, Meaning, Morning, Muddle, Muddling Through, No One, One Foot Forward, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Promise, Running Away, Rut, Seek, Spinning, Story, STuck, Stuck With the Blahs, Sudden, Talk, Tatters, Test, The Man, Theme, Together, Until Then, Want, Warning, Winning, World | Leave a comment

To Find Peace

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many movies and books predict nothing but darkness and gloom in our future. Maybe that’s easy enough to understand with the fact that we so often seek force rather than reason to overcome past and present hurts. But, maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Annihilation, Better, Beyond, Books, Bring, Dark, Darkness, Death, Desolation, Devastation, Down, Find, Find Our Way, Force, Forgiveness, Future, Gloom, Healing, Hope, Imagery, Key, Loss, Metaphor, Minds, Morning's First Light, Movies, Nakedness, Nation, Nations, New Day, Night, Once We Do, Only, Our, Overcome, Path, Peace, Photograph, Pithy Words, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Prevent, Quicker, Reason, Reconciliation, Regrets, Release, Rolls Out, Ruin, Said, Selves, Set, Shelf, Sting, Stretch, Suffer, Toppled, Understand, Undoing, Victory, War, We, Whittled, World | Leave a comment

It’s No Mystery

Posted on June 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A thought that occurred to me over and over as I drove through Amish Country yesterday: It’s No Mystery by Michael Doyle Every day that we get to live We have to give what we can give To show that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepting Differences, Adds Up, Amish Country, Answer, Appears, Better, Blessing, Blindness, Brothers, Chance, Change Our Ways, Choose, Conquer, Different Fate, Drive, Each Other, End of Days, Every Day, Feel, Forgotten, Freed, Give, Grateful, Greater, Greatest Commandment, Greet, Hate, Hearts, Help, History, Kindness, Learn, Learn To Love One Another, Learned, Left, Lessons, Let's Talk, Live, Living, Looking Deep, Love, Love One Another, Love the Lord God, Moment, More Faith, Mystery, Need, Open Fist, Page Turned, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Right, Said, Second Guessing, See, Seeing With Another's Eyes, Seeking, Show, Sisters, Smile, Stop Forcing, Sunrise, Surface, Take Hand, Than Fear, This World, Thought, Turn That Page, Understand, Walk Together | Leave a comment

The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share

Posted on June 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Exodus 20:17: The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share by Michael Doyle It’s hard to be content in comparison Always measuring yourself on what is done By others when your race is your own Only to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, All, Another's, Bait, Better, Brother, Comparison, Content, Contentment, Course, Covet, Desire, Discontentment, Do, Done, Door, Eve, Exodus, Fact, Faith, Fall, Far, Forbidden, Friends, God's Throne, Had, Hand, Happy, Hard, Have, Heart, Instead, Keep, Keep Your Eyes, Look, Measure, More, No Further, Offer, Others, Paul, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Race, Reverence, Rich, Run, Safe, Satisfaction, Self, Serpent, Service, Set, Share, Sin, Sister, Snare, Soul, Star, Stem, Tempt, Temptation, Treasure, True, Truth, Want, Well, Wise, You, Your Own | Leave a comment

Wildness Into View

Posted on June 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another in the series on photography. This one focuses on capturing animals and plants. There is so much to see in this fascinating world of ours. Wildness Into View by Michael Doyle Staying hidden in order to see Is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aperture Priority, Balance, Best Lesson, Best Photos, Better, Build, Capture, Close, Connection, Conservancy, Day, Embrace, Expression, Fauna, Flora, Flow, Flower, Freeze, Gratification, Habitat, Hidden, Hike, History, Impression, Improve the Odds, Intimacy, Lenses, Light, Macro, Memory, Natural, Opportunity, Patience, Patience and Time, Pay, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Preplanned, Radio Control, Rare and Few, Reception, Repeated Access, Research, Richness, Right Opportunity, Satisfaction, See, Serenity, Shallow Depth of Field, Shape, Sharp, Shutter Speed, Subject, Trick, Trigger, View, Weather, Wildlife Photography, Wildness, Work Around, zoo | Leave a comment

Letting An Innocent Man Die

Posted on June 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Yes, this is still a big issue if not the biggest issue with me left over from the work for which I will always take a bit of my dignity and honor (such as it is) from. Even one … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Day, Better, Big Issue, Breath, Brutal, Burn, Compel, Daze, Death, Decide, Devil, Die, Dry Eye, Electric Chair, Emotions, George Floyd, Guilty Man, Heart, Hell To Pay, High, Injustice, Innocent Man, Learn, Less, Let, Lie, Live, Nothing, Path of Destruction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reform, Selma, Sigh, Smell, Smoke, Snare, Somethign, Teachable Moments, The Devil, Time, Unacceptable, Ways, Weak Man | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Know You’re In Love When You Can’t Fall Asleep Because Reality Is Finally Better Than Your Dreams

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Asleep, Better, Dr. Seuss, Dreams, Fall, Know, Love, Reality, Thought For the Day, You | Leave a comment

Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I heard an interesting global reading of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. From this contrasted with the pandemic lockdown came: Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse by Michael Doyle As is the way of many a hero’s journey Enduring the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrift, Apocalypse, Atomized, Beach Comb, Better, Bit Players, Bottomless, Bound, Bravado, Case History, Coleridge, Compel, Condition, Contrast, Corrosive, Cue, Deathfire, Desolation, Digital, Doing, Dream, Edge, Edition, End, Endure, Epic, Evening, Existential, Eye, Find, Geyser, Global, Hanging, Harrowing, Hero's Journey, History, Hug, Idea, Idle, Impersonal, Important, Inexplicable, Isolation, Jung, Kissed, Lips, Lockdown, Loneliness, Man, Masterpiece, Meanness, Measure, Message, Miles, Mist, Modernity, Moment, Morning, Mystery, New, Nightmare, Noon, Old World, Our, Outsiders, Pandemic, Passage, Path, People, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Probable, Prophecy, Protagonist, Reach, Read, Response, Ruin, Sad, Sail, Sea, Sense, Senseless, Ship of Fools, Space, Speak, Split Up, Spurn, Storm, Story, Successive, Symbol, Terrible, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transform, Trial, Trials, Trouble, Tug, Undone, Unleash, Unmeant, Verses, Vibrant, Voyage, We, Winner's Cup, Wise, Word, Words, Worse, Zone | Leave a comment

Happy Mother’s Day, Too

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over … Continue reading →

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