Tag Archives: Could

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivings

Posted on March 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A World of Thoughts and Other Misgivingsby Michael DoyleIn a world of thoughts and other misgivingsThere is a lot of hurt in need of forgivingNot just for you or for me, but all it seemsThere are just too many … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept Less, Act, Artistic, Barbarians, Beholder, Bitter End, Burn, Camera, Certain End, Challenges, Complacency, Conundrum, Could, Deceiving, Decency, Declining Humanity, Disbelieving, Disruption, Do Less, Dreams, Empathy, Evidence, Eyes, Fear, Flame, Forgiving, Fragmented, Good, Harsh, Humanity, Hurt, Indifferent People, Logical, Majorrity, Matter, Media, Mind, Misgivings, Moth, Name, Narrative of Equilibrium, Necessity, Needed Solution, Normality, Poetry and Poems, Presupposed, Quietly, Recognition, Resolution, Scolder, Seems, Sense of Morality, Shadow, Should, Speak Up, Strengthen, Swan-Geese, Swept, Thoughts, True Friend, Verge, Void, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

A Push Too Far

Posted on February 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Push Too Farby Michael DoyleA push too farAnd it’s going to leave a scarWhat a move to makeYou didn’t even fakeYou just stole my moneyI suppose you think it’s funnyI know that I honestly doCause I would have given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ask, Begun, Could, Done, Equivocation, Fake, Freeing, Funny, Given, Good, Honest, Money, More, Move, Natural Fact, New Chapter, No Good, Poetry and Poems, Protestation, Push, Scar, Sense, Task, Too Far, Would, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Searching For Reasons Why

Posted on December 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Reasons Whyby Michael DoyleSearching for wordsThat just won’t comeHoping for a pocketful of miraclesBut finding noneThis is no way to spendThe moments leading to Christmas DayJust hoping for them to endCause they make no difference anywayTake another sip … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Believe, Blues, Cards, Chair, Christmas, Christmas Day, Comfort, Could, Cry, Daughters, David, Die, Difference, Dream, Dreams, Drenched, End, Father, Give, Gone, Good, Half, Happy, Hard, Hearts, Hope, Knocked Back, Lack, Life, Life's Pain, Long, Moments, None, Nudge, Pocketful of Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Read, Reasons, Rhyme, Sadness, Seams, Searching, Shoulders, Sip, Snowman, Spend, Stand, Stars, Table, Think, Time, Watch, Why, Without A Reason Why, Words | Leave a comment

Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Better, Blessed, Bobbing and Weaving, Canada, Children, Cornfields, Could, Courtships, Cranes Mate Forever, Cycles, Dance, Danced, Dies, Different, Disregard, Drive, Every Moment, Every Year, Fail, Familial Groups, Feathered Paratroopers, Fledglings, Fleeting, Flight, Florida, Forget, Grouping, Guess, Happiness, Hardship, Harvested, Hearts, History, Hope, Humans, Ingrained, Inspired, Its Way, Jasper Pulaski, Keep, Landing, Last, Learn, Learning, Life, Loved, Marsh, Mate, Midwestern Flyway, Migrations, Migratory Routes, Minds, Momma and Poppa, Motion, Natural Wisdom, Nature, Nesting Grounds, Newly Planted, Next Generation, Nourishment, Observation Platform, Pilgrimage, Poetry and Poems, Point, Possible, Promises, Puzzle, Really So, Recognize, Remember, Rest, Revisited, Rituals of Dance, Romance, Romantic Couples, Sandhill Cranes, Scrabbles of Food, Should, Snow and Rain, Sorrow, Sounding Off, Spring, Survival, Taught, Think, Thousands, Times, Too Often, Trace, Tradition, Vain, Watch and Learn, Watching, Weariness, Wish, Wonder, Young, Zig-Zag Patterns | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Finish Each Day and Be Done With It

Posted on June 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absurd, Begin, Blunders, Could, Done, Doubt, Each Day, Encumber, Finish, Forget, High Spirit, New Day, Nonsense, Old, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Serene, Thought For the Day, Tomorrow | Leave a comment

First Principles: Those Who Think Themselves Unaccountable Will Act Unaccountable and All Persons Would Be Unaccountable If They Could

Posted on May 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It is nothing strange, that men, who think themselves unaccountable, should act unaccountably, and that all men would be unaccountable if they could.” – John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Act, All, Cato's Letters, Could, First Principles, John Trenchard, Men, Strange, Think, Thomas Gordon, Unaccountable | Comments Off

If We Would Wish To Heal

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Playing a bit of catch up from yesterday in that my life changed dramatically and not for the better, I am combining the sixth day of Na/GloPoWriMo’s goal of a poem about if and the woulds, coulds, and shoulds of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accumulation, Awareness, Belief, Best of Me, Biology, Brav e, Capability, Colludes, Concsciousness, Could, Deception, Deep, Dis-Ease, Disease, Drama, Embrace, Emotion, Environment, Fear, Genetic, Good, Grief, Grow, Harm, Heal, If, Ignorance, Impair, Increase, Inside, Interact, Intrepet, Manifest, Miracle, Na/GloPoWriMo, Negative, Overcome, Peace, Perception, Permission, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Portal, Power of Belief, React, Reaction, Rest and Repair, Self Image, Shadow, Should, Soul, Spirituality, Subconscious, Trauma, True, Walking Wounded, We, Will, World, Would | Leave a comment

Wishing The Maybe

Posted on January 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Do you ever have moments where you stop and pause and think on things like maybe things might have been different or maybe this or that? I do. Those are the moments to be quiet and listen in. Trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Borrow, Bought, Chess, City, Compassion, Consider, Could, Deliberate, Dragon, Eye, Family, Fool, Gift, God, Good, Hesitate, Hiding Seek, Late Night, Let It Be, Lines, Maybe, Moment, Morality Play, Nothing, Outcast, Photograph, Pity, Plain View, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Relive, Remembrance, Rule, Sky, Sleep, Society, Sought, Think, Throwaway, Tomorrow, Travesty, Treasure, Truth, Wish, Yesterday | Leave a comment