Tag Archives: Bloom

Voice Sang Soft

Posted on August 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Voice Sang Softby Michael DoyleYour voice sang softly like a melody.It’s hard to say what it did to me.Then and there from the very start,Your love was gentle, blooming in my heart.Your smile might be your special power,As it captivated … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begun, Belong, Better, Blindness, Bloom, Blow, Born, Choice, Complete and Strong, Distant Seasons, Everybody Knows, Eyes, Feel, Fire of Love, Flower, Forever, From, Future, Gentle, Glow, Grateful, Heart, Hearts Beat, Kind Words, Kindness, Life, Linger, Love, Magic, Melody, Miracle, Music, Night, Night Breeze, One, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Reason, Right, Same, Sang, Smile, Soft, Starlit Sky, Start, Together, Unforgettable, Voice, Walk, Words, Worlds, Writing, Your Love | Leave a comment

On Christmas Island

Posted on December 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

On Christmas Islandby Michael DoyleIt’s those accidental greetingsThat lead to monumental meetingsThese fill our lives with loveAs if somehow guided from aboveOn Christmas Island, looking for a roomIt’s surprising the miracles that bloomOpen hearts put a smile on our facesIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Accidental Greetings, Bloom, Candle-Making, Christmas Island, Christmas Magic, Christmas Memories, Christmas-Style, Cocoa, Color, Every Life, Face, Guided, Happy Families, Heartbreaking, Hearts, Little Help, Lives, Living Love, Love, Magic of Christmas, Miracles, Mistletoe, Monumental Meetings, New Starts, Open Hearts, Place, Poetry and Poems, Room, Silliness, Smile, Snowflakes, Time, Tongues, Tragic, True, Young | Leave a comment

With An Idea In View

Posted on May 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

With An Idea In Viewby Michael DoyleWith an idea in viewI wished for a dream come trueAnd hope replaced my heartacheThat came from my last mistakeTrying my best to figure it outTaking my best shot at what it’s aboutFinding it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, August Moon, Band, Best Shot, Bloom, Brave, Call, Dance and Sway, Dancing, Dream, Fall For Me, Fallen Guard, Fan, Figure It Out, Graceful, Hard, Heart, Heartache, Hope, Hoping, Idea, Kisses Like Roses, Last Mistake, Magic, Man, Mean, Meet, Miine, Miss, Moonlight, Moonshine, Moping, Music, Nightfall, Often Do, One In A Million, One Look, Passion, Please, Poetry and Poems, Queen, Rhythm, Right, Shades, Simple, Sonata, Speak My Words, Street, Sweet, Talk Too Much, Tasteful, Tease, Time, True, Unforgettable, View, Watch, Wish | Leave a comment

Totality and Doom

Posted on April 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Totality and Doomby Michael DoyleYesterday, the moon blotted out the sunIn the same way, it has frequently doneThe people traveled from miles aroundHoping they would see something to astoundTheir weary minds at least for a little whileSome came to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apocalypse, Appear, Astound, Bits and Pieces, Blood Moon, Bloom, Blot, Certain, Change, Chaos, Clever, Close Lips, Comfort, Conspiracies, Corner, Crowd, Cultural, Dandeliions, Darkness, Days, Devil's Comet, Die, Doom, Doomsayer, End, Faith, Familiar, Fear, Forever, Happy, Internet, Lear, Lives, Magical, Miles, Moon, Odd, Panic, Path of Totality, Poetry and Poems, Prediction, Prophecies, Reality, Regret, Religious, Resilient, Signficant, Signs, Sky, Smile, So Much for, Speak, Startled, Strong, Sun, Taught, Thinker, Totality, Travel, Trouble, Vibe, View, Wait, Watch, Weary Minds, Whisper, Wrong, Years, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Hatred In A Human Heart Has All Skin Colors, and That Really Is What Is At the Root of Racism

Posted on April 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Why is the race industry blooming? Because it is a lucrative business based on the lie that the United States is the most racist place to live; a lie that has convinced people that more murdered blacks are killed by … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All Skin Colors, Bloom, Emmy Griffin, Fight, Hatred, Human Heart, Injustice, Keep Telling the Truth, Lie, Listen, Lucrative Business, Modern Facilitator, Most Racist Place To Be, Race Industry, Reality, Root of Racism, Thought For the Day, To Anyone, United States | Leave a comment

Happy First Day of Spring

Posted on March 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Welcome to Spring 2022! Today is Spring Equinox 2022 in a continuation of those traditional blessings each of us used to embrace by heading outdoors and starting to live large. With the Covid experience behind us now, maybe we can … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Anew, Behind, Blessing, Blessings, Bloom, Covid Experience, Days, Embrace, Emily Dickinson, Flowers and Trees, Happy First Day of Spring!, Heading Outdoors, Living Large Again, Renewal, Spring 2022, Spring Equinox, Thought For the Day, Tradition, Warm | Leave a comment

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted on February 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Happy Valentine’s Dayby Michael DoyleMy mind’s blownBy the love you’ve shownIn presenting meThings of love shown clearlyMy heart is thumping so dearlyHappy Valentine’s Day!Every day is the awesomeAs I watch our love blossomHanded to me as these bloomMy heart’s going … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Else, Awesome, Best Sort of Doom, Bloom, Blossom, Boom, Clearly, Dearly, Deeper, Don't Have A Notion, Every Day, Every Moment, First Sight, Fragrance, Fresh, Happy Valentine's Day, Heart, Leads To Another, Love, Love Is Like, Magic, Mind's Blown, Other, People Ask, Poetry and Poems, Poetry In Motion, Real Life, Rose Bouquet, Sacred Ocean, Set Blue, Shown, Snaps, Step By Step, Strife, Taking it Further, Thump, Tragic, What's the Commotion, Words of Devotion, You Told Me, You Would Stay | Leave a comment

Bucket List Cools

Posted on August 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

During this time of limited travel and doing what we can to get through while making history simply by living as well as possible as we adapt to Covid, it’s maybe time to look at bucket lists. Bucket List Cools … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aces, Adapt, Beginning, Bloom, Bring Me, Bucket List, Burning Hot, Checking My List Off, Coming Up, Conspire, Cool, Covid, Crossed Off, Determine, Done, Dreaming, Dreams, Every Day, Everything, Feel, Flames, Forgot, Full Life, Get My Living In, Global, Golden, Growing Room, Heart, High Fever, History, Inside, Know the Way, Last Chance, Living, Lock Down, Making History, Making the Best, Mind, Move, Mystery, Need, Once Again, One By One, Opportunity, Passionate, Photograph, Photos, Planted, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Pushing Too Hard, Remains, Roads, Rules, Running, Seed, Shake, Shimmy, Sown, Travel, Universe, Victor's Crown, Wild Card, Wire | Leave a comment

The Floriography of Our Easter Love Renewed

Posted on April 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11, 2020… and hoping each of you is having a blessed Easter eve!! Today’s poem prompt is to write a poem featuring the secret language of flowers, floriography. Given that I have been with my two little girls … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Apostles, Azalea, Bloom, Christ, Desiree, Dignity, Easter, Floriography, Forgiveness, Garden, Heart, Hold, Hope, Jesus, Linger, Love, Loyalty, Mortal Sin, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nosegay, Petals, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purity, Purple, Queen, Remind, Renew, Repentance, Right, Role, Rose, Self Control, Single, Symbolism, Temperance, Theology, Tulips, Us, Victorian, Virtue, Walk, Womanhood, Words, Wounds | Leave a comment

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2020

Posted on March 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Despite all that has come to pass it would be in my opinion almost sacrilegious not to wish all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2020!! May God’s soft rain fall on you always to allow the flowers of your … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 2020, Benefit, Blessing, Bloom, Every Moment, Faith, Flower, God, Happy St Patrick's Day, Hope, Keep Safe, Life, Light, Love, Others, Soft Rain, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment