Tag Archives: Detection

Blank Verse

Posted on May 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Blank Verseby Michael DoyleThe other day, I went to the libraryWith no intention to become contraryAnd picked up a famed anthologyOf poetry to see what it might teach meI’m sorry to say that it seems perverseWhen someone writes poetry in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Anthology, Best, Blank Verse, Capability, Confuse, Contrary, Create, Days, Detection, Dramatic Monologue, Emphasis, Essay, Essays Incomplete, Functionality, Grammatically, Half-Stated Thoughts, Hearts, Incomplete, Intention, Lazy, Library, Meaning, Methods, Perverse, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Replete, Reward, Rhyme, Rhythm, Romantic, Said, Souls, Spatters, Specific Grandeur, Teach Me, Test, Time, Trolls, Waste, Ways, Wonder, Word Patterns | Leave a comment

The Chasm Between

Posted on August 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Chasm Betweenby Michael DoyleWhen man creates the perfect machineWill it be as some utopian dreamsOr will they find the chasm betweenWho we are and how we wish to seemIs one which it escapes all detectionThat mortals such as we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begun, Between, Body, Breaks, Chasm, Create, Detection, Flaws, Friends, Love, Man, Mind, Mistakes, Mortals, Perfect Machine, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Recalibration, Start, Test, Utopian Dreams, Wish | Leave a comment

Road Tripping

Posted on July 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile | Leave a comment

There Is A Dream

Posted on March 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

There Is A Dreamby Michael DoyleThere is a dreamInside our reflectionA silent sort of screamThat escapes the world’s detectionA world that no one else can seeIn an answer in search of questionsThat we won’t ask in possibilityA mirrored echo of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Believer, Better, Build, Choice, Defiance, Destination, Detection, Dignify, Dream, Echo, Escape, Form, Found, Ground, Grow, Hearts, Hesitation, Investigation, Keep, Minds, Mirror, Mysteries, Open, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Power, Question, Reach Beyond, Reality, Reflection, Render, Revealed, Roads, Scream, See, Selves, Silent, Singular, Splendor, Tether, Tomorrow, Trap, Travel, Truth, Unaware, Unravel, Voice, Wishes, World | Leave a comment

A Good Feeling About…

Posted on August 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Good Feeling About…by Michael DoyleIt looks like we’re in for nasty weatherGod knows that you and I deserve betterPlotted courses are always subject to changeIt’s the simple way of life and nothing strangerSpin offs and rip offs serve to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Art, Believe, Best Direction, Better, Bum Rush, Canvass, Compare, Compassion, Connection, Create, Deep, Deserve, Detection, Disjointed, Distract, Dreams, Fall, Fashion, Feel, Final Cut, Fix, Flaws, Flow, Forgot, God Knows, Good Feeling, Hard Work, Harsh, Heart, Hero, Hold Steady, Horse Before the Cart, Impossible, Inspiration, Let It Be, Life Lived, Lives, Lot, Luck, Melodramatically, Mine Fields, Mistaken, Motivation, Moving Forward, Muse, Nasty Weather, Observe, Part, Passion, Photograph, Plotted Courses, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Probable, Ready, Rip Offs, Roll, Rolling Along, Same Direction, Scenes, Simple Way of Life, Slick Mix, Slight Adjustment, Spin Offs, Standard, Stay Within, Staying Stuck, Stranger, Studio, Stumble, Subject To Change, Too Much, Toward, Under Attack, Unfair, We, Wonder, World, You and I | Leave a comment

On Understanding Children’s Literature

Posted on June 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A wisely crafted tale invites its reader or listener, young and old, to inquire what good might be learned from the tale. On Understanding Children’s Literature by Michael Doyle The stories we have heard from childhood Are the classics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, Allow, Aristotle, Art, Attention, Awe, Bless, Blunder, Childhood, Children's Literature, Classic, Craft, Creation, Deep Learning, Demanding, Depth, Detection, Draw, Education, Embrace, Endow, Enjoy, Escapism, Fable, Fiction, First Acts, First Time, Focus, Foster, God, Good, Grow, Heart, History, Hocus Pocus, Imagination, Imitation, Jesus, Know, Knowledge, Learn, Legacy, License, Limitation, Literature, Magic, Making, Met, Metaphor, Morality, Near Perfection, Nobility, Open Inquiry, Other Worlds, Parable, Passages, Photograph, Poem, Poetics, Poetry, Points, Prison, Reality, Retention, Seek, Sense of Wonder, Sharpen, Smaller Scale, Sterility, Story, Sublime, Sum of Darkness, Tale, Tell, Think, Together, Told, True Liberation, Truth, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfold, Want, Will, Work, Yearning | Leave a comment

Framing the Lines

Posted on May 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Photographic composition often has the challenge of how to turn the two dimensional into something that has depth and seems a bit three dimensional. Framing the Lines by Michael Doyle Doorways, windows and rock formations Layer our photos with their … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2d, 3d, Catalysts, Chaos, Composition, Connection, Containment, Control, Craft, Depth, Detection, Dimension, Doors, Doorways, Draw, Elements, Entertain, Eye, Eyes, Find, Focal, Focus, Forgot, Frame, Guide, Holy Grail, Information, Interest, Involve, Journey, Key, Layer, Leading Lines, Light, Lines, Lot, Multiple, Open, Photograph, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Right, Road, Rock Formations, Soul, Story, Tales, Tools, Truth, Unfold, Windows, Windows of the Soul, World, Zest | Leave a comment

Consent of the Governed

Posted on May 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in a series of poems about the establishment of our republican form of government and life under the rule of law as set out in our constitution: Consent of the Governed by Michael Doyle The standards are set by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abject, Ambition, American, Anarchy, Attention, Avoid, Balance of Power, Checks and Balances, Classics, Component, Consent, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Defeat, Deficiencies, Democracy, Detection, Discern, Distribution, Examine, Executive, Extremes, Freedom, Gather, Governed, Government, History, Hour, Human Beings, Imperfection, Improvement, Improvements, Independent Judiciary, Inhibition, Invitation, Just Government, Know, Last, Learn, Legendary, Legislative Representation, Lesson, Liberty, Lose, Mankind, Means, Nation, Nothing New, Old, Order, Past, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political, Power, Powerful, Publius, Representation, Republican, Republican Government, Rights, Rule of Law, Science of Government, Seat, Self Government, Series, Slavery, Society, Standards, Subject, Table, Tension, The People, Told, Transcendence, Truth, Tyranny, Unalienable, Unchecked Power, Vacillation, Vote, Work | Leave a comment

Holding Hands With the Sun

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me | Leave a comment

Vision Strikes Its Pose

Posted on January 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Always insight be it on stage or on screen, there’s a lot that goes into being a costume designer, right? Vision Strikes Its Pose by Michael Romani To design, to tell a story A costume in all its glory Accents … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accent, Actor, Audience, Brilliance, Choice, Chose, Color, Costume, Costume Design, Creation, Detection, Dream, Fabric, Flow, Fluidity, Glory, Heart, Humanity, Illuminate, Imagination, Inventory, Know, Larger Than Life, Laundry, Life, Movie, Need, Painter, Perception, Performing Arts, Photograph, Playwright, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Pose, Read, Reflection, Screen, Script, See, Seen, Stage, Story, Strike, Subtle, Texture, Theater, Vanity, Vision, Wardrobe, Worn | Leave a comment