Tag Archives: Breadth

Thought For the Day: Something Might Be Done By Throwing All One’s Weight On the Scale of Breadth, Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace, and Kindliness To Man and Beast

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Big Blows, Breadth, Charity, Count, Done, Kindliness, Little Better, Little Ones, Love, Man and Beast, Peace, Presence, Scale, Small Stage, Temperance, Thought For the Day, Tolerance, Two Sides, Weight, World | Leave a comment

Saltwater Traces

Posted on April 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Saltwater Tracesby Michael DoyleLooking out from the edge of the ocean’s shoreThere is a vast expanse we’ve yet to exploreWe know so little about our Mother OceanAnd yet, fools like me are filled with devotionLimited as we are by human … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baptized, Beginning, Begins, Blood, Board, Breadth, Brutality, Calm, Colors and Emotions, Dance, Devotion, Dip, Edge, Emotion, Ending, Eternity, Explore, Fascination, Feelings, Fools Like Me, Gaze, Graves, Hair, Human Contemplation, Human Perceptions, Humble, Immortality, Know, Length, Life, Limited, Majesty, Mankind, Measure, Moment, Mother Ocean, Ocean, Patches, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pounding Waves, Reflective, Reminder, Repeitition, Salt, Saltwater Traces, Sands, Scale, Sea, Shadow, Shallows, Shore, Strength, Sunlight, Sweat, Tears, Time and Space, Toes, Touch, Vast Expanse, Winds, Windswept, Years | Leave a comment

Denunciation (of Joseph Brodsky)

Posted on January 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Denunciation (Of Joseph Brodsky)by Michael DoyleNo longer the young poet, but grown olderHe remained the lyric voice of his generationA social parasite who lived ever bolderAs an involuntary exile held in venerationTold he was pornographic and destroyed by an anxietyNot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Best, Bold, Breadth, Clarity, Cold Night, Condemn, Contempt, Crime, Dare, Denunciation, Destroy, Disguise, Embrace, Endless Space, Generation, Gray Breakers, Guardians, Guiding Light, Highest Degree, Honest Guise, Imbued, Inappropriate, Intensity, Involuntary Exile, Joseph Brodsky, Languages, Life, Lonely and Weary, Lyric, Lyrics, Maturity, Metaphysical, Mother Russia, Older, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pornographic, Praise, Reality, Recant, Reflective, Roots, Schizophrenic, Sense, Short-Sighted, Social Parasite, Society, Soviet, The Authorities, Time, Transmission, Treat, Troubling, Truth, Understood, Velveteen Pants, Veneration, Voice, Western Literary Tradition, Words, Writing, Young | Leave a comment

What Shall We Name Him?

Posted on April 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 29 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The objective optional prompt is to write a poem about a pet that has or had our heart or has otherwise distinguished him or herself in our hearts and souls. For me, that will … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Answer, Ascher, Bailey, Bark, Beware, Boy, Breadth, Bright, Circumstance, Compare, Core, Cuddle, Dash, Destination, Dog, Doggie, Embrace, Energy, Ensnare, Epidemiology, Face, Flair, Games, Giggle, Glitchy, Glow, Golden Doodle, Happy, He, Heart, Hour, Hype, Joy, Kiss, Laugh, Lick, Lit, Manage, Me and You, Name, Names, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Noble, Pandemic, Personality, Pet, Photograph, Play, Playfulness, Poem, Poetry, Poodle, Puppy, Root, Screen, Separate, Skype, Smile, Social Distance, Special Power, Style, Suit, Technology, Teddy Bear, Trick, Triumph, Warning, Whim, Wiggle, Wise, Word | Leave a comment

Collection Recollection

Posted on April 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 19 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the goal is a poem about a collection of whatever subject matter picked up along a walk. After a myriad of ideas, good and possibly not so good, I have gone with being … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Bed, Breadth, Camera, Climb, Collection, Digital, Eyes, Full, God, Greatest Artist, Hillsides, Hopes, Inspection, Kiss, Lights, Memories, Mindscapes, Mine, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Night, Photograph, Photographs, Physicial, Poem, Poetry, Recollection, Rise, Safe, Said, Seen, Self Isolation, Share, Shine, Sit, Skies, Spread, Summer, Think, Time, World | Leave a comment

Thankful In Collaboration

Posted on November 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking on art and design, a poem of gratitude for its immersive collaboration. A poem in gratitude #21: Thankful In Collaboration by Michael Romani Designs of light In abstraction Just might Be created in collaboration Subtle changes Create the color … Continue reading →