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To London, Across the Sea

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further retelling of Dracula in poetic form: To London, Across the Sea by Michael Doyle In a tested game of chess A knight is menacing a queen The losing side will confess What this really means A voyage has … Continue reading →

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War Changes A Man

Posted on June 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

While paying attention to something else, I started to think on PTSD. War Changes A Man by Michael Doyle It came on without any warning Half past two in the morning And suddenly, it was show time Landing hard like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Backfire, Best, Booby Traps, Boys, Came On, Can, Change, Crawling, Door, Emotional Crime, Face Down, Facedown, Ghosts, Ground, Hip Deep, Home, Hug, Landing Hard, Left Behind, Loud Noise, Loud Sound, Made It Out, Man, Mind, Morning, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Show Time, Struggle, Times, Trip Wires, Visit, War, War Changes A Man, Warning | Leave a comment

Hello Echo

Posted on May 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some mysteries are better left under lock and key. Hello Echo by Michael Doyle Deeper than an echo In a wishing well Hidden in the shadow Shivering to its last detail You have to listen To the whispers calling Can … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Friend, Books, Brave, Careful, Dark, Deep, Detail, Door, Echo, Eyes, Fall, Feel, Follow, Heels, Hello, Hidden, Hide, Key, Listen, Lock and Key, Lost Up, Magic, Meant, Memory, Mirror, More, Myster, Mystery, Night, Pain, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Question, Scenery, See, Self, Shadow, Shiver, Shut, Sing, Sing Along, Skies, Song, Spirits, Stand, Understand, Unpack, Vain, Watch, Whisper, Wishing Well, You | Leave a comment

The Art Garden Was Swinging

Posted on April 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 21 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, has the optional prompt of taking a bit of poetry in a foreign language and based on the sound of the lines themselves attempting to write a poem of some sort even if it becomes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Art Garden, Attitudes, Dizzy, Door, Dutch, Fit, Foreign Language, Gangs, Garden, Hotel, Jelly, Kitten, Met, Mirror, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Rock, Sound, Swing, Taffy, Tell, Track, Valley, Walk, Wink, Wonder, Work, Zone | Leave a comment

An Easter Of Empty Churches

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What an odd sort of Easter wasn’t it? But perhaps a lesson to be learned… An Easter of Empty Churches by Michael Doyle April of 2019, Notre-Dame was burning And in this, we were surprised and learning That there would … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of Us, April 2019, April 2020, Assumption, Bar, Barren, Believe, Believers, Believing, Burn, Capable, Caves, Celebrate, Church, Churches, Comfort, Consensus, Contend, COVID-19, Cross, Curse, Deceiving, Distance, Door, Dread, Easter, Empty, Excommunication, Faith, Faithful, Fate, Faustian Bargain, Fear, God, Government, Grieve, Hearts, Home Church, Homes, Hope, Hues, Infection, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Saves, Know, Learn, Lepers, Loss, Love of Others, Meant, Need, Notre Dame, One, Order, Pain, Pandemic, Pews, Photograph, Plagues, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Pray, Prayer, Presumption, Question, Reality, Realization, Reappear, Resistance, Revelation, Rich, Shape, Shut, Son, Spiritual, Sustain, The Church, the Word, There, Thrive, True, Unease, Wait, War, World | Leave a comment

Dealing With the New Deal

Posted on April 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American history continues into the 1930s and the Great Depression. Dealing With the New Deal by Michael Doyle Had Coolidge been in power for Wall Street’s fall The safe bet is he would have done little or nothing at all … Continue reading →

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Crawled From the Crypt

Posted on March 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Does anyone remember a very old television show, Dark Shadows? When I was a kid, they tell me I would cut through the woods after school let out instead of taking the bus and run some 3.5 miles to catch … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Adage, Attrition, Bleed, Chain, Clever, Cloak, Cost, Crawl, Crypt, Curious, Dark, Dark Shadows, Door, Doors, Doubt, Fate, Grandfather Clock, Graveyard, Habit, Limits, Lock, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push of the Pull, Reborn, Reveal, Seal, Secret, Silence, Sledge Hammer, Sorrow, Strong will, Threat, Tomorrow, Tremble, Trouble, Truth, Truth Seeker, Vain, Wept, Wish, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Tilting Mental Windmills

Posted on February 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On bad days, I awake wondering if maybe Don Quixote wasn’t on to something in his belief of pursuing impossible dreams. Other days, I dare to dream these. Tilting Mental Windmills by Michael Romani Captured frames from your window Map … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: When One Door Closes, Another Opens

Posted on January 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alexander Graham Bell, Close, Closed Door, Door, Long, Look, Often, One, Open, Regret, See, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

On This St Nicholas Day 2019

Posted on December 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Happiest of St Nicholas’ Days 2019! This is the day that I will forever and a day celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season. Though honestly, I believe the world would be all the better if we kept Christmas in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2019, Beautiful, Believe, Birth, Celebrate, Child, Christmas Season, Creed, Custom, December, Deeds, Door, Doubt, Faith, Faraway, Favor, First Light, Fortune, Gifts, Gladness, Good Deed, Good Name, Good News, Heart, Jesus, Legend, Live, Nicea, Night, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Respect, Same, Santa, Seal, Shiver, Shoe, Sound, St Nicholas Day, Summer, Toys, Truth, Wolf | Leave a comment