Tag Archives: Charm

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

Sounds For Troubled Times

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

One thing I’ve had some time to do lately is to explore what tuneage tends to lift my spirits in these sunken times. Sounds For Troubled Times by Michael Doyle Susceptible to a classic boogie fever As though there be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 250th Birthday, Anything, Aspiration, Beethoven, Bent Pitches, Black Jazz, Blue, Boogie Fever, Brilliance, Call, Catharsis, Celebrate, Charm, Classic, Composition, Cool, Dance, Dark, Deaf Man, Define, Dim, Divide, Ear, Energy, Everything, Forget, Gershwin, Get Up, Greater Than, Hang In There, Happiness, Harmony, Heart Strings, Hearts, Hope, Humor, Imposition, Improvisation, Inspiration, Instrumental, Interlude, Joy, Kick, Lever, Loss, Love, Masterpiece, Missed, Mood, Moonbeam, Morals, Music, Musical, Need, Pandemic, Parts, Persevere, Photograph, Place, Playlist, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Resilience, Rhapsody, Romance, Sign, Songs, Sonic, Soul, Sounds, Spirit, Star, Stick, Sweep, Teach, Tone, Troubled Times, Tunes, Universe, Verse, Voice, Wall, Way, We, Where, Who, Whole, Write | Leave a comment

A Pale Death

Posted on October 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #17: A Pale Death by Michael Romani The end of days descends Like a fog from hell that ascends On us all a thick as it can be As we dance away our sanity Lilith asks for one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bittersweet, Breath, Charm, Comfort, Core, Death, Death's Door, Demon, Die, Dignity, Embrace, End of Days, Evil, Fatal, Flee, Fog, Foul, Glow, Grace, Guide, Halloween, Haunt, Heart, Hell, Kiss, Knees, Lilith, Linger, Lord's Prayer, Lost, Man, Memory, Moment, Monster, Mortality, Pale, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sanity, Stab, Star, Trap, Wild, Wish | Leave a comment

Further Reaches

Posted on August 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s magic in the stardust that goes beyond the physical world we live in. This is a bit half inspired by a tale of two worlds and of course blended with thoughts about my recent past… Further Reaches by Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Blend, Bright, Chain, Charm, Cheek, Chorus, Conscience, Desire, Distance, Dream, Dreams, Enchant, Far, Feeling, Felt, Field, Fingertips, Fire, Good, Harm, Hesitation, Human, Intention, Kiss, Light Years, Lips, Love, Mean, Melt, Moment, Night, Passion, Philosophy, Photograph, Pity, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Pursuit, Push, Put Up, Question, Reach, Science, Shore, Silent, Snowdrop, Stardust, Stars, Swirl, Time, Time Waster, True, Twinkle, Woke, Wonder, World, Yield | Leave a comment

Life Anew

Posted on July 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On the further consideration of how diatoms not the Amazonian rainforest so much act as the lungs of this beautiful world of ours. For some of us who have to consider more than others the role of oxygen in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Amazon, Anew, Blue, Breath, Cascade, Charm, Death, Diatoms, Distance, Dive, Dreams, Four Alarm, Grace, Green, Guitar, Life, Light Show, Living Waters, Notice, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Secret, Sight, Still, Stun, Whirls | Leave a comment

Transcendent Healing

Posted on June 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Isn’t it charming that so much of reaching inner connection is characterized as mindfulness when truly the path to reach the soul is to quiet that mind and breath in the soul. Don’t ask me yet to explain quite what … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Awareness, Bombard, Chaos, Charm, Connection, Control, Daily Shower, Devil, Disease, Equlibrium, Fight Or Flight, Grime, Heal, Inside, Journey, Light, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Morning To Night, Multiple Levels, Necessity, On the Go, Peace, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purify, Reflection, Remediate, Reveal, Sensationalism, Shunt, Slow, Soul, Stress, Sympathetic Nervous System, Thought, Time, Toxic, Transcend, Yap | Leave a comment

Woken Facade

Posted on June 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There are times and places filled with spaces when you see there is a lot of darkness behind smiling faces…Sometimes in those places, you make mistakes you wish you could take back and cannot. Woken Façade by Michael Romani As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Bleed, Charm, Dance, Dante's Inferno, Dark, Deception, Devil, Dream, Everyone, Facade, Fail, Fear, God, Harm, Heartbreak, Heresy, Infinite, Mask, Mercy, Mistake, Myself, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relent, Repent, Seem, Soul, Task, Trick, Woke, Wrong | Leave a comment

Seemed So Easy

Posted on June 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Isn’t it funny how differently two people can see the same events? Seemed So Easy by Michael Romani It seemed so easy Putting band aids on the pain Ignoring the tear drops Though they fell like rain It was there … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amazing, Annoy, Band Aids, Best Friend, Call, Charm, Contradictions, Deep, Differnces, Disarm, Easy, Guitar, Heart, Ignore, Imperfections, Jokes, Look, Note, Observances, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Real, Seem, Sgrong, Song, Speak, Star, Strum, Subtle, Tear Drops, Unique, Void, Washed Away, Wrong | Leave a comment

A Parchment To Write On

Posted on April 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today, April 1, 2019, marks the beginning of the annual National/Global Poetry Writing Month. The first gauntlet flung down is to write a poem based on the idea of making something. A friend suggested parchment. This became to me how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Binding, Bloom, Cactus Garden, Calfskin, Charm, Cherish, Coffee, Complicity, Drive, Embellish, Ensnare, Family, Father, Felt, Gilt, Hours, Humidity, Illuminate, Joshua Tree National Park, Lines, Membrane, Memory, National/Global Poetry Writing Month, Oasis, Ocotillo, Panoramic, Parchment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Prayer, Preservee, Quire, Rain, Rock Formation, Scrape, Simplicity, Smile, Springtime, Stable, Story, Travel, Tree, Unveil, Veining, Vellum, Visions, Warmth, Wildflowers, Winter, Words, Write | Leave a comment

Window Shopping

Posted on March 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Life – it’s a flash, a bit of dash, and then maybe it’s over before we even know it’s begun… Window Shopping by Michael Romani It’s strange all those little things That make up our memory All the flashes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Hallow's Eve, Apart, Branch, Charm, City Street, Country Lane, Dash, Different, Dream, Dust, Excavation, Expectation, Family Tree, Flash, Friends, Game, Happy, Heart, Highland, Legacy, Life, Living History, Meet, Memory, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Ruin, Same, Samhain, Shop, Song of Life, Strangers, Will, Window, You | Leave a comment