Tag Archives: Daughters

Nuzzle and Nudge

Posted on June 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Father’s Day is approaching. Due to lack of funds, I’ve not seen the girls but twice since June 10 of last year. We won’t even really get into the 73 times that the Court ordered telephonic visitation has been interfered … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Altar, Calvary, Children, Chocolate, Comfort, Cradle, Daughters, Embrace, Fairy Dust, Falter, Father's Day, Fort, God, Humanity, Humility, Imagination, Interstellar Sailor, Love, Moments, Moonbeam, Nudge, Nuzzle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redeem, Sacrifice, Serve, Sincre, Space, Time, Tomorrow, Transform, Vanity | Leave a comment

Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down | Leave a comment

Dream Big Ghazal

Posted on February 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Poem A Day #4 is to be of the Ghazal poetry form. Ghazals were originally popularized and written by such notables as Rumi and Hafiz of Persia. Through the influence of Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Babe Ruth, Courage, Daughters, Discourage, Distance, Dream Big, Dreams, Edison, Encourage, Father, Focus, Ghazal, Goethe, Home Run King, Little Girls, Locus, Love, Music, Nighttime, North Star, Nurture, Poem A Day, Poetry, Promise, Right Thing, Rumi, Science, Sing, Sleep, Star | Leave a comment

Little By Little

Posted on January 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

A quiet take on understanding life… Little By Little by Michael Romani Today, I came face to face with Neruda’s mean As I contemplated the mortality of this being That if little by little we live as though indentured To … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Adventure, Atonal, Battle, Brilliant, Cherish, Compromise, Contemplate, Daughters, Denial, Dying, Eyes, Face to Face, Fall, Fascination, Fears, Fight, Forgive, Give, Give All, Grin, Improvisation, Indentured, Laugh, Life, Linger, Little, Live, Living, Love, Middle, More, Mortality, Neruda, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ravage, Rhyme, Shade, Smile, Taken, Ventured, Win, Yes | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Craft

Posted on October 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Out under the street lights I’ve spent one too many nights Chasing the neon gods of rock Pursuing my craft instead of small talk Like a street busker playing Thinking the magic would be staying Until one day I put … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Basement, Craft, Daddy, Daily Prompt, Daughters, Divorce, Guitar, Magic, Mouse, Neon gods, Nights, Play, Rock, Shaking, Small Talk, Street Busker, Street Lights, Tear, Visitation | Leave a comment

Redemption Of A Clown

Posted on September 2, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Some things just aren’t funny. Like someone who abuses their power and position to coerce others into things otherwise unimaginable to them. Less funny still is when that same comedian thinks he can excuse away his or her lewd and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Boys, Care, Clown, Comedian, Contemplation, Daughters, Doubt, Lady, Match, Mothers, Neglect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Reconciliation, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Sisters, Talk, Toys, Walk, Watch, Women | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Size

Posted on July 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

A tear drop is painted on the wall It’s the many details behind the fall Telling its secrets to all who will see Of hope lost and grief in travesty Large or small, it’s the size of an ocean A … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Daily Prompt, Daughters, Details, Fall, Grave, Grief, Hope, Loss, Ocean, Overwhelmed, Size, Surf, Tear Drop, Travesty, Wall | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Narcissism

Posted on May 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There are self imposed cages Filled with private passions And with your little rages Oh, I could detail this for pages On your lack of compassion Your narcissism in all its stages But what in the end would it benefit … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Benefit, Cages, Compassion, Daily Prompt, Daughters, Father, Grace, Narcissism, Pages, Place, Rages, Self Imposed, Stages, Wordpress | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Premature

Posted on May 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

I laughed with a shake of my head Never count me out as done or dead I smiled my quiet denouncement At the premature announcement And she sought to find me unfit As a father, unworthy of even a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Counted Out, Daily Prompt, Daughters, Father, Laugh, Love, Premature, Still Standing, Unfit, Wordpress | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17: Wrapped Around Her Little Finger

Posted on April 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The Na/GloPoWriMo Day 17 challenge is to “write a poem re-telling a family anecdote that has stuck with you over time”. There is not a person on this Earth (or any other for that matter), who knows me and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Children, Daughters, Family, Father, Little Finger, Love, Magical, Na/GloPoWriMo, Perfect Fit, Poem, Poetry, Wrapped | Leave a comment