Tag Archives: Day

Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Anniversary, Artist Eyes, Beauty of this Nation, Blossom, Bolder Dreams, Breath, Compromise, Daughters, Day, Death, Difference, Dreamer, Dreamt, Driving, Excited Eyes, Explore, Falling Tears, Fire, Follow, Food, Garden of Dreams, Grandmother, Happiness, Happy, Her, Home, Imagination, Inside of Me, Journey, Last Breaths, Lists, Lives On, Love, Love Lives On, Meant, Meet, Memories, Met, Middle of the Nation, Miss, More, Movies, Music, My Daughters, My Mom, Open, Pain, Paint, Places, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Rains, Regret, Remorse, Retrace the Steps, Reveal, Sad, See, Shadow, Situation, Sleep, Smile, Something More, Soul, Still, Stimulate, Surprise, Tears, Thrive, Tired, Traces, Two Hearts, Want, Watch, West Virginia, Whisper, Wish, World, Years Ago, Young Boy | Leave a comment

Beyond the Thunder Dome

Posted on May 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Beyond the Thunder Domeby Michael DoyleIt took a day to really sink inTo catch my peace and reach ZenA private dancer left the buildingTo rest in Heaven, if God be willingRock-n-roll has lost its acid queenThe hips that hollered a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acid Queen, All Night Long, Beyond, Building, Churning Waters, Day, Dust of History, Ear, Empress, Eternity, Excellence, Fire, Folktale, Giving, God Be Willing, Gone, Heaven, Her Call, High Voltage, Hips, Holler, Human Being, Human Expression, Iconic Star, Legacy, Lessons, Lived Long, Living, Love, Melodic Growl, Memories, Mountains High, Musical Treasure, Mystery, Mystique, No Victim, Note, Our Age, Peace, Personfiy, Poetry and Poems, Private Dancer, Pure Energy, Relevance, Rivers Deep, Rock-n-Roll, Scale, Silent Sigh, Sink In, Siren, Songs, Soul Survivor, Southern Kitchen, Speak Her Name, Stages, Strong, Tenderness, Thunder Dome, Tire, Too Soon, Tune, Vinyl, Will To Live, Woman Done Wrong, Zen | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Live Each Day With Enthusiasm, Optimism, and Hope

Posted on April 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.” – Ronald Reagan

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged America, Contribution, Convince, Day, Enthusiasm, Full, Hope, Live, Optimism, Profound, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Wonderful Experiment | Leave a comment

Born In the Rockies (Part II)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Born In the Rockies (Part II)by Michael DoyleThe backbone of North America stretches for milesBring life across the land with ceaseless smilesFrom shifting sand dunes to deep river valleys it goesFrom the most brilliant stretches of sun to deep shadowsEach … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Animal Babies, Backbone, Beginning, Biome, Born, Childhood, Cranes, Cub, Dance, Day, Deep River Valley, Den, Earth, Ecosystem, Essential, Explore, Freshness, Generation, Grass, Habittual, II, Life, Miles, Mirth, Mist, Mother, Nature, New Life, North America, Play, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow, Renewal of Vows, Ritual, Romance, Sand Dunes, Shadows, Smiles, Spawn, Sun, Tale, Temperate, Time, Understood, Wait, Ways of Love, Win, Winter, Yellowstone Valley | Leave a comment

Don’t Play With Fire In the Dark

Posted on March 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Don’t Play With Fire In the Darkby Michael Doyle The edge of the cliff beckons meWhispering my name dangerouslyIs it taunting the edgeOf a lonely soul on the ledge A reasoned soul knows its contextWhen all the dots fail to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bargain, Cards, Carve, Child, Cliff, Connect, Context, Damage Is Done, Dark, Day, Die, Don't Play With Fire, Dots, End, Feel, Fold, Gray, Hand, Journey, Ledge, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reason, Setting Sun, Sky, Taunt, Thought, Thunder and Lightning, Travel, Whisper, Wind | Leave a comment

Nothing But Net

Posted on March 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Nothing But Netby Michael DoyleLiving through drift with deferenceWe each live Beethoven’s experienceComing out from every defeatWe stretch our defenses as we greetAll that life gives to usFacing each day and just becauseA preacher’s kid knows the shift of anxietyEveryone’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Appreciation, Beethoven, Blame, City, Complexity, Day, Defeat, Deference, Drift, Experience, Fascination, Greet, Iconic Memories, Imagination, Life, Lifeline, Mind, Net, Nothing, Pendelum, Playgrounds, Poetry and Poems, Preacher's Kid, Walk | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Have Known A Vast Quantity of Nonsense Talked About Bad Men Not Looking You In the Face. Don’t Trust That

Posted on February 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” – Charles Dickens, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles Dickens, Conventional Idea, Countenance, Day, Dishonesty, Face, Known, Look, Quantity, Stare, Thought For the Day, Trust, Week | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: An Artist Discovers His Genius the Day He Dares Not To Please

Posted on November 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.” – Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Andre Malraux, Artist, Dare, Day, Genius, Please, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: Enlighten the People, Generally, and Tyranny and Oppressions of the Body and Mind Will Vanish Like Spirits At the Dawn of Day

Posted on October 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Body and Mind, Dawn, Day, Enlighten, First Principles, Oppressions, Spirits, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny | Leave a comment

In the I-IV-VII

Posted on June 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the II IV VIIby Michael Doyle In the I IV VIII just might playMy way to blues heavenBut I wouldn’t want to really say. It’s just another moment in this dayTroubles found and troubles goneNo real matter to how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belongs, Blues, Blues Heaven, Chill, Circles, Crossroads, Crowd, Cry and Play, Curved, Day, Dig In Deep, Drawn, Etch, Every Day, Fall, Feeling, Find, Fogot, Found, Gone, Groove, Guitar, I-IV-VII, Incendiary, Living Life, Lost Mind, Loud, Memory, Mind, Moment, Night, Note, One Too Many, Play, Poetry and Poems, Question, Real Matter, Right, Room, Say, Sing, Sliding Tones, Slow Roll, Song, Soul, Sting, Strings, Tomorrow, Troubles, Tumbling Dice | Leave a comment