Tag Archives: Chase

Thought For the Day: Nature Is Ever At Work Building and Pulling Down…Chasing Everything In Endless Song Out of One Beautiful Form Into Another

Posted on May 25, 2023 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 Beautiful Form, Chase, Creating, Destroying, Endless Song, Ever At Work, John Muir, Nature, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Blind Side

Posted on November 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Blind Sideby Michael DoyleFour seconds from the snap of the ballA life can change in ways we’ll later recallIn four seconds, a life can really changeAs the players on the field rearrangeBut such players come along for the rideWith nowhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blind Side, Break, Change, Chase, Life, Nowhere, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rearrange, Recall, Ride, Snap, Steady Gaze, Stray, White Walls | Leave a comment

Never Give Up

Posted on July 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A poem written dedicated to my daughters in conjunction with the last class in a series on building resilience in life and to encourage them to chase their dreams always! Never Give Upby Michael DoyleLife like a Rembrandt paintingIs meant … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Bold, Chase, Control, Daughters, Dedication, Dim, Doing One's Best, Dreams, Earn, Father, Flair, Forgiven, Grow, Human Being, Inspiration, Know, Learn, Life, Live, Never Give Up, Poetry and Poems, Rembrandt, Resilience, Sacrifice, Soul, Stars, Swim, Unafraid | Leave a comment

Have A Blessed and Merry Christmas One and All!

Posted on December 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Though it isn’t a white one And it seems it’s all been done Today is Christmas Day May it be blessed in every way! Let us never forget the holy reason That stands behind the season And keep our blessings … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Before, Behind, Blessed, Blessings, Chase, Christmas Day, Done, Door, Embrace, Every Way, Familiar, Felt, Friends, Grace, Heart, Holy Reason, Merry Christmas, Mind, Never Forget, Relations, Remember, Season, Thought For the Day, Troubles, Welcome, White | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #3: Words That Sound Good

Posted on April 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Words That Sound Goodby Michael DoyleThere is a bit of something That is eloquently rapped into nothingThat there are words that just sound goodAnd go together well like they shouldIt’s a bit of the simplicity That is found inside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apocalyptic, Best of Life, Bit of Something, Busy As A Bee, Chase, Clandestine, Complexity, Dictionaries, Eloquently, Equilbrium, Found, Go Together Well, Golden Ore, Good, Mine, Museum, My Heart, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nothing, Pageantry, Pleasantry, Poetry and Poems, Precious, Preserve, Rapped, Simplicity, Sound, Square Root, Stare, Unapologetic, Words | Leave a comment

Carnival of Ordinary Love

Posted on January 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Carnival of Ordinary Loveby Michael DoyleI guess you could say That I’m nothing extraordinaryThat my life has been livedLike a carnival of the ordinaryAlways keeping my eye on the prizeThat had yet to be wonA life lived with no alibisUntil … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anything, Carnival, Chase, Compulsion, Consequences, Dance, Drawn To You, Embrace, Extraordinary, Giving My All, Keeping My Eyes On the Prize, Laughter, Life, Lived, Making Music, Memoments, Near You, No Alibis, Nothing, Ordinary Love, Paint, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Power, Resist, Romance, Sanctity, Something, Treasure, Undone, Want and Need, What We're After, Whatever It Takes To Be Believed, Yet To Be Won, Your Face | Leave a comment

I’ll Always Take Your Call

Posted on October 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I’ll Always Take Your Callby Michael DoyleRipped apart deep inside my DNAFinding the scary part is the last biteWhen suddenly, I run short of what to sayAnd my wildest dreams hold me through the nightSomewhere in the geometry of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstract, Always, Apprehensive, Beeline, Behind, Bitter Respite, Boundaries, Breath In, Breath Out, Bridge, Catch Your Fall, Chase, Condescension, Conviction, Dark Tendency, Despair, Desperate, Different Tempos, Direction, DNA, Do It AGain, Dread, Edges, Elasticity, Facts, Feeling, Finish Stong, Geomtry, Hands In Mine, Heat of It, Holding On, Hollow Comfort, Hope, Implore, Infinite, Jester, Jump, King, Less Than Clever, Letting Go, Live and Learn, Lives Lessons, Melts Away, Moments, My Love Runs Deep, Never Leave You, Nighttime, Offer, Photograph, Place, Plasticity, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Rare, Refuse To Drown, Remember, Return, Ripped Apart, Run Short, Say, Scary Part, See Beyond, Shadows Creep In, Shriek, Silent, Silver Lining, Society, Song, Spin, Superficiality, Take Your Call, Terror, Through the Night, Unruly Mind, Waiting Out, Wildest Dreams, Worse, Wrap, Zig Zag | Leave a comment

The Solace of Life’s Magnitude

Posted on September 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Solace of Life’s Magnitudeby Michael DoyleI’ve never quite decided the tragedyIn the inches of life’s comedyIt’s all just another way to dieQuite laughable in how it brings another cryThere in the bullet that’s firedIs the bang up finish that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Allow, Another Way To Die, Balance, Bleed Out, Breath, Bullet, Chase, Coincidences, Collide, Comedy, Conspiracy, Conspire, Crash, Cry, Daily, Desperate, Doubt, Embrace, Faces, Finish, Fire, Full Stop, Hard, History, Hold, Impossible To Fake, Inches, Last Inning, Laugh, Life, Living, Lock of Hair, Loud, Magnitude, Marvel, Mystery, Pain, Pass, Photograph, Picked Lock, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Questions, Reason, Scratch, Search, Secrets, Sentimental, Shroud, Slow To Heal, Solace, Surrender, Take It, Tragedy, Wound, Wounds | Leave a comment

Entering the Afterlife

Posted on August 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Started watching the point of origin series of Star Trek series with the girls. The one that is more or less the prequel for the whole thing. Got this out of the first episode: Entering the Afterlife by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advent, Afterlife, Ankle Deep, Beginning, Beyond the Stars, Chase, Communication, Complexity, Conflict, Creed, Cynicism, Dim, Dream, Dreams, Each Day, Empathetic, Enter, Explanation, Explore, Faith of Heart, Forward, Found, Freed, Going Boldly, Gound, Have Not Been, Hope, Humanity, Imprint, Interpretation, Langauge, Larger, Mass Perfection, Name of Honor, New Challenges, New Generation, New Worlds, Onward, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Problematic, Problems, Proceed, Prospects, Push Forward, Reaching Out, Right Direction, Seems, Simplicity, Space, Speak, Spirit of Man, Star Trek, Swim, Victories | Leave a comment

Fast As A Fox

Posted on July 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When the raiders came, survival was to the strong and fleet of foot… Fast As A Fox by Michael Doyle Run, run Fast as a fox Hide, hide Inside the rocks Deep, deep Inside the grotto Weep, Weep Hidden In … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atone, Blood, Chase, Conforms, Death, Deep, Drains, Excalibur, Fast, Fire, Fleet of Foot, Flow, Fox, Grotto, Hide, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Raiders, Rain, Rich, Rocks, Run, Secrets, Shadow, Sink, Spill, Stone, Understood, Warm, Weep, Wolves, Wood | Leave a comment