Tag Archives: Building

For Sierra (At Age 14)

Posted on May 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For Sierra (At Age 14)by Michael DoyleThough sometimes now, I have to squint To get the clue of what it is you meantThis poem is for you as you reach 14Growing into one of my favorite human beingsWhether it’s building … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Age 14, Amaze, Believe, Bigger and Lesser Things, Bolder, Breath, Building, Capable Mind, Care, Child, Clue, Coding, Conceive, Confidently, Confusing, Confusion, Day Passes, Daze, Dreams, Favorite Human Being, For Sierra, God, Grapple, Grow, Have Your Say, Head-On, Hesitation, Hold, Illusion, Impressive, Issues, Meant, Never Lost, Older, Parts of You, Path, Poem, Poetry and oems, Pray, Proud, Questions, Reach, Robots, Safe, Share, Sometimes, Squint, Standing Your Ground, Talk, Time and Day, Vote, World | Leave a comment

Beyond the Thunder Dome

Posted on May 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Beyond the Thunder Domeby Michael DoyleIt took a day to really sink inTo catch my peace and reach ZenA private dancer left the buildingTo rest in Heaven, if God be willingRock-n-roll has lost its acid queenThe hips that hollered a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acid Queen, All Night Long, Beyond, Building, Churning Waters, Day, Dust of History, Ear, Empress, Eternity, Excellence, Fire, Folktale, Giving, God Be Willing, Gone, Heaven, Her Call, High Voltage, Hips, Holler, Human Being, Human Expression, Iconic Star, Legacy, Lessons, Lived Long, Living, Love, Melodic Growl, Memories, Mountains High, Musical Treasure, Mystery, Mystique, No Victim, Note, Our Age, Peace, Personfiy, Poetry and Poems, Private Dancer, Pure Energy, Relevance, Rivers Deep, Rock-n-Roll, Scale, Silent Sigh, Sink In, Siren, Songs, Soul Survivor, Southern Kitchen, Speak Her Name, Stages, Strong, Tenderness, Thunder Dome, Tire, Too Soon, Tune, Vinyl, Will To Live, Woman Done Wrong, Zen | Leave a comment

Dropping the Label

Posted on June 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dropping the Labelby Michael DoyleIn every moment, any given momentCan become the truth of a holy momentGod is with us wherever we areWhether in a building or under starsLife may not be fair, but God is faithfulBringing to our lives … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Admission, Birthright, Blessings, Broken Road, Building, Caterpillar, Circles, Concession, Condition, Contention, Courage, Crises, Daybreak, Destination, Devotion, Discipline, Dropping the Label, Embrace, Eyes, Ezekiel, Face, Faith, Faithful, Family, Fights, Flow, Forget, Forgot, Forward, Fulfilled, Generations, Glory, God, God's Good Plan, Good Book, Grace, Great Nation, Heartbreaks, Hearts, Holy Perfection, Honest Story, Intention, Knights, Life, Listening, Loved and Forgiven, Metamorphosis, Metaphysical, Moment, Nothing, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Prayer, Premises, Prevail, Primary, Process, Profit, Promises, Prophecies, Purposes, Real Selves, Realize, Repentance, Revealed, Running, Situation, Solitude, Something, Spiritual, Stars, Stillness, Storm, Strife, Stubbornness, Superstar, Surrender, Truth, Twin Conceptions, Undertow, Wings, Wonderful, Wrestle | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #29: From This Side of the Window

Posted on April 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #29: From This Side of the Windowby Michael DoyleThere was a time as a younger manWhen life excited me as it no longer canThat I would climb up into that buildingA hotel in which bargains were no longer yieldingThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bargains, Books Read, Building, Changed Directions, Cheap Trick, Climb, Clothes, Deals, Deepest Meaning, Distracting Words, Edge, Excited Me, Hotel, Illusions, Know Where To Go, Life, Lifetime, Magical, Magician, Na/GloPoWriMo, No One Really Knows, Now and Then, Older Man, On the Fly, Pass, Plain To See, Played Guitar, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Rhyme, Scheming, See Beyond, Stacking the Cards, Still the Boy, This Side of the Window, To and Fro, Too Busy Dreaming, Watching the Show, Words, World, Younger Man | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Give Your Best Anyway

Posted on June 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accuse, Anyway, Be Happy, Be Honest, Be Kind, Best, Build Anyway, Building, Cheat, Destroy Overnight, Do Good, Enough, False Friends, Forgotten, Give, Give Your Best, Good, Honest and Frank, Jealous, Kind, Mother Teresa, Selfish, Serenity and Happiness, Succeed, Successful, Thought For the Day, Today, Tomorrow, True Enemies, Ulterior Motives | Leave a comment

Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary

Posted on February 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Psalms 37:4: Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary by Michael Romani Finding happiness in the Lord to find our desires Keeping our sights on the inspiration of our fire Gathering the cornerstones of our days of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Being, Bright, Building, Chase, Commandment, Commitment, Commune, Cornerstone, Days, Deep, Delight, Devotion, Divinity, Done, Embrace, Emotion, Eternity, Father, Fire, Forgiven, Forward, Frame, Fruit, Given, Grace, His, Home, Immortality, Inspiration, Kingdom, Know, Laughter, Life, Light, Lives, Lord, Love, Magic, Meaning, Mind, Need, Observe, Path, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Power, Process, Promise, Psalms, Read, Real, Reason, Relationship, Right, Righteousness, Sanctuary, Season, Servant, Serve, Shine, Sight, Steps, Toward, Tragice, Trigger, Truth, Why, Worship, Yoke | Leave a comment

Architectural Abstractions

Posted on December 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Lost my list of days celebrated in December, soooo… I am pitch hitting with this one: Architectural Abstractions by Michael Romani There in the art of geometry The spatial relationship is everything Crystalized rocks bend into symmetry Organizing rugged bits … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Accentuate, Architect, Art, Blend, Breathe, Building, Capability, Capacity, Choice, Conception, Concrete, Design, Down, Dream, Filter, Fully Being, Geometry, Hand In Hand, Masterpiece, Mind, Natural Light, New World, Nothing, Obscure, Overlap, Parabolic, Participate, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Science, Scope, Something, Spatial, Spectator, Symmetry, Understand, Walls | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Language Is the Architecture of this World Built By Everyone

Posted on July 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. “– Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Building, City, Humanity, Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stone, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Nature Is A Endless Song of One Beautiful Form Into Another

Posted on May 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.” – John Muir, Naturalist … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beauty, Building, Destroying, Endless Song, Explorer, Form, John Muir, Motion, Naturalist, Nature, Thought For the Day, Transforming, Work In Progress | Leave a comment

In Scale

Posted on June 9, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

In Scale by Michael Romani To dream with a passion to build Oh, what power it does hold and wield With dreams felt, lived without restraint Prevailing over life without constraint The moment of making dreams into reality It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Second Life | Tagged Abstract, Building, Dreams, Fantasy, Function, Libretto, Music of the Spheres, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Scale, Shaper, Shapes, Transformative | Leave a comment