Tag Archives: Daughters

Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)

Posted on August 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)by Michael DoyleHas it been a lifeOr some kind of a dreamIt’s hard to believeThat you’re turning fourteen14 years ago tomorrowYou first opened your eyesTaking away my sorrowAnd bringing a million surprisesThey say … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angie, Baby, Be Your Own, Being Your Father, Blossoming, Brilliance, Bringing Me Pride, Brought Me, Concession, Couldn't Ask For More, Daughters, Day, Dream, Early, Every Beat of My Heart, First Opened Your Eyes, Fourteen, From the Very Start, Growing, Happiness, Happy Birthday, Happy Father, Hard To Believe, Hold My Hand, Impression, Joy, Know, Know These Things, Learned, Life, My Shadow, Nearly Grown, Never Be Poor, One of Life's Best, Outside, Outside My Shadow, Pass the Test, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Resilience, Richer, Say Hello, Since, Sister, Sorrow, Standing By My Side, Tomorrow, Treasured, Treasures You, Trust In You, Turned, Turning Fourteen, Ultrasound, Under, Young Lady | Leave a comment

And Suddenly…

Posted on June 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

And Suddenly…by Michael DoyleAnd suddenly, I was the guy on the floorThe pain in my chestToo difficult to ignoreThe daughters stood thereIn frozen frames of timeBeing brave despite their fearWould daddy live to share another rhyme?Dear Lord, don’t let me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Day, As All Men, Being Brave, Brave, Break, Breathe, Breathing Shallow, Chest, Clinging Closely, Daddy, Daughters, Dear Lord, Defiantly, Don't Let me Be Gone, Don't Let Me Die, Explosive, Feeling, Feeling Sorry, For the Grave, Force, God, Guy On the Floor, Holding Close, Holding On, Hopeful, Ignore, In Every Way, Into, Into My Source, Live, Looking Deeply, Meaning, My Daughters Eyes, My Heart's Fibers, My Love, Of My Mistakes, Only God's Help, Pain, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pushing Back, Quietly Begging, Reaching Deep, Save, See Them, Share, Sigh, Speaking Encouraging Words, Suddenly, Their Fear, Their Voices, There, This Test, Too Difficult, Truth, Unready, What I Would Give, Whispered Softly | Leave a comment

A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescue

Posted on June 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescueby Michael DoyleI visited a feline rescueWith my daughters to take a viewThoughts given to the depravedAnd the gracious souls who’ve savedThese big cats, who were once littleDrawn towards the drama’s middleOf how humans … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abused, Big Cats, Brutes, Clever, Daughters, Did Not Know, Drama, Drawn, Egotists, Engulfed, Exotic Feline Rescue, Fault, Fill With Tears, Gives Me Hope, Gracious Souls, Grow, Habit, Humans, Kittens, Lovingly Care for Them, Madness, My Eyes, Nothing Else, Poetry and Poems, Reasonability, Revolt, Sadness, Saved, Sense of Love, Stars, Sweet and Cute, Thought Very Little, Tragic, Vanity, View, Visit, Wantonly Defiled, Wish | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Ability, Accident, Accusation, Adolph, All But Lost, All Peoples, Americans, Ancient Peoples, Apart, April Tenth, Arrive, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Auschwitz, Babies, Barren Fields, Believe, Betray, Bluffing, Buchenwald, Burn, Caged Ghetto, Captivity, Cattle Cars, Cleft, Communication, Cost, Crushed, Cry, Cup, Darkest, Daughters, Death Became the Mercy, Death Head, Deeds, Dehumanized, Demonized, Deportation, Desperation, Destination, Determination, Devil's Symphony, Doubt, Dread, Dying, Elders, Eternal, Eternity, Evil, Extermination, Face, Faith, Father, Fear, Few, Flames, Flick, Forced March, Forgotten, Germany, Ghost Train, God, God Be Willing, Going On, Goodness, Grapple, Graves, Grief, Grim Determination, Guide For the Perplexed, Hand, Happenstance, Haste, Hatred, History, Hitler, Hold On Tight, Hope, Huddle, Hunger, Incessant, Infernal, Jewish History, Kabbalah, King, Know, Learn, Left, Let This Be A Lesson, Light, Line, Literature, Live or Die, Living Skeletons, Loved, Madmen, Marginalized, Mengele, Mercilessly, Miracle, Mirror, Misery, Monsters, Mystic Union, Names, Necessary Lie, Night, No Coming Back, No End, Nothing, Optimism, Pages, Peace Alone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pray, Prophets, Prove Forgiving, Provident, Purpose, Question, Rage, Recall, Receptivity, Robbery, Rogues, Rule of Law, S;piritual, Sacred Ritual, Sake, Scarlet, Seek, Shame, Shed, Shrieking, Sighing, Slight, Slip, Snow, Sons, Soul, Spark, Suffering, Suffocating, Sunken Eyes, Survival, Survived, Surviving, Targets, Taste, Terror, Test, The End, The Jewish, The Jewish People, Track, Tradition, Transition, Transmission, Treasures, Truth, Ugliness, Unity, Water, Weisel, West, Whenever, Wherever, Wine, Wisdom, World, Worse, Worship, Yiddish | Leave a comment

Halloween: Daughters of Salem

Posted on October 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Daughters of Salemby Michael DoyleIn the misted realm of nightmaresBeyond the screens of our daily careThe daughters of Salem tossIn their graveyards of the crooked crossHidden tears masked by blood stainsThat cannot wash away with the cold rainsIs the fear … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again and Again, All, Angel, Autumn, Bittersweet, Blood Stains, Broken Wing, Cohort, Cold Rain, Corridor, Crooked, Cross, Crypt, Daily Care, Dark, Darkness, Daughters, Destiny, Don't Really Know, Doom, Dread, Fall, Fate, Fear, Final Choice, Find, Forms, God, Graveyards, Halloween, Heaven, Hellions, Heresy, Hounds of Hell, Leaves, Life, Light, Locked Room, Lucifer, Make, Mercy, Minds, Mortuary, Nightmare, Open, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pours Out, Pray, Present, Rage, Realm, Rebellion, Resist, Rock-n-Roll, Sake, Salem, Sanctuary, Screen, Seal, Secrets, Seek, Sin, Skull, Tears, The Master's Call, Tug, Voice, Wages, Wait, War, Wash Away, Watch, Whisper | Leave a comment

Trying To Bottle Up

Posted on August 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Trying To Bottle Upby Michael DoyleTrying to bottle up all the troubleStraight talking never ever doubleIs something that is next to impossibleSomething of which I know I’m incapableBut, I would do almost anything To keep you safe from all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anything, Bottle Up, Correct, Cross, Crucify, Daughters, Dignify, Double, Everything, False Move, Father, Guilty, Imperfect, Impossible, Impress, Improve, Incapable, Know, Loss, Loved, Pardon Me, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pound of Flesh, Safe, Straight Talk, Strong, Trouble, Wait, Wrong | Leave a comment

Wild Winds

Posted on August 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

On Attempting To Be A Good Father

Posted on June 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As Father’s Day approaches, I am thinking a lot on what it means to be a father to my two daughters. I am woefully aware that as they approach their teenage years, there are things I might have said and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approaches, Attempt, Bless, Case, Cause, Choice, Circumstances, Daughters, Disrupt, Do My Best, Don't Know What To Do, Eyes, Fail, Fall, Family, Father, Father's Day, Father's Face, Find, Follow, Forgive, Forgiveness, God, Good, Good Father, Grace, Guidance, Hard Calling, Hope, Knees, Know, Lead, Learn, Let Down, Little Voice, Live, Look, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Mend, Mercy, My Family, Not In Vain, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Press Onward, Prevail, Priceless, Princesses, Proud, Providence, See, Show by Example, Show Them, Steel, Strength, Strive, Tear, Tears, Think, Totality, Treasure, True, Two, Understanding, Velvet, Vulnerability, Weaknesses, Will, Wish | Leave a comment

On Habits of Soap, Water and Masks

Posted on May 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest princess is fond of teasing the truth that we are living history. What a memory this all will be one day won’t it? They’ll be able to say they lived through a global crisis and remember things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alcohol, Antibody, Block, Car, Common Sense, Crowns, Daughters, Destructive, Disabuse, Disrupt, Embrace, Epidemiology, Face, Fancy, Father, Global Crisis, Habit, Learn, Live, Living History, Manipulate, Mask, Me and You, Memory, New Norm, Notion, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Protect, Protein, Safe and Sane, Scientists, Smile, Soap, Soap and Water, Strategy, Trials, Used, Viral, Virus, Wash Our Hands, Water | Leave a comment

Happy Mother’s Day, Too

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Apples, Bad, Best, Better, Blessed, Bliss, Button, Christmas Songs, Click, Company, Conversation, Country Road, Damage, Daughters, Day, Destinations, Done, Drive, Due, Eve, Ex Wife, Family, Fascination, Forever, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgotten, Friends, Girls, Go, God, Good, Grace, Gratitude, Happy Mother's Day, Highway, History, Homeward, I, Inter-State, Joke, Joyful, Laugh, Laughing, Listen, Made, Marvel, Mirror, Near, Pandemic, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Present, Radio, Realize, Return, Reveal, Road, Road Trip, Search, See, Seen, Shine, Short Hike, Sing, Slow Down, Song, Soul, State, Station, Sweet, Tales, Tell, The Girls, Think, Thinking, Together, Told, Tomorrow, Tree, Ugly, Vibrant, Watch, Way Back, Wrong, Youngest | Leave a comment