Tag Archives: Ear

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: Death Tugs At My Ear and Says, ‘Live, I Am Coming’

Posted on March 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Death tugs at my ear and says, ‘Live, I am coming.’” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (8 Mar 1809-1894)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Death, Ear, Live, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thought For the Day, Tug | Leave a comment

Giving Love

Posted on August 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love in our fallen world is the calling from our heavenly Father. Giving Love by Michael Doyle Giving love in a world of brokenness Willing and ready in our un-spokenness We would be His hands and feet Giving love patiently … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abounds, Battle, Brokenness, Commands, Community, Compassion, Divine Law, Dreamless, Ear, Fallen World, Fear, Fulfilled, Giving, God's Promise, God's Will, Gods, Hands and Feet, Hear, Heavenly Father, Heed, His, His Hands, Hope, Hurting, Impact, Kept, Life, Listen, Look Out, Love, Loving, Needs, Overflow, Patience, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Proclaim Victory, Safe, Seamless, Strive, Take Care, True, Trust, Unspoken, We, Willed, Willing, World | Leave a comment

To Escape the Warren

Posted on June 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

More or less dedicated to A Watership Down: To Escape the Warren by Michael Doyle In the beginning Rabbit gained his tricks There on the path of winning Played out like a guitarist’s licks Each to have their meaning Captive … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Watership Down, Beginning, Blood, Borne, Brother, Burning Hot, Caged Existence, Captive, Card, Change, Come, Cross the Road, Danger, Dare, Ear, Escape, Feaer, Fear, Few, Fire, Flee, Freedom, Gain, Gamble, Gather, Good, Haste, Head, Hear, Live Life, Meaning, Moment, Moment to Waste, Mud, Needed, Neglect, Nightmares, Path, Pesevere, Photograph, Played Out, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rabbit, Rules, Safety Net, Schools, Something Coming, Storm, Story Tellers, Taught, Think, Told, Tricks, Warren, Ways, Willingness, Win, Wire, Woods | Leave a comment

On Being Eleventeen

Posted on May 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest daughter turns 11 tomorrow. She’s brilliant, witty, charming in her own ways and has a bright future ahead of her. Yes. I am a very proud father of both of my princesses. The only kingdom I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always Know, Answer, Attention, Beautiful, Become, Best, Birthday, Blind, Books, Brave, Brilliant, Celebrate, Change, Changes, Charming, Child, Communication, Confidence, Consideration, Cooking, Counting, Cuddle, Curled, Do, Ear, Ears, Eleventeen, End of the World, Eye to Eye, Eyes, Fascination, Fear, Feelings, Find, Friends, Good, Grow, Growing, Hear, Heart, Here, Hesitation, Important, Independence, Interests, Investigation, Joke, Kind, Know, Knowing, Learn, Learning, Like, Listen, Love, Loving, Magazines, Magic, Missed, Must, My Heart, Night, Nuance, Online, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Questions, Retention, Revealing, Right, Riled, Safe, Saturday, Search, See, Seek, Shine, Sleep, Stars, Step, Stretch Out, Surprise, Talk, Thoughts, Thoughts and Feelings, Transcendence, Treat, True, Truly, Trust, Turn To me, Walk, Watch, Witty, Wonderful, You, Young Lady, Youngest Daughter, Yourself | Leave a comment

Sounds For Troubled Times

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

One thing I’ve had some time to do lately is to explore what tuneage tends to lift my spirits in these sunken times. Sounds For Troubled Times by Michael Doyle Susceptible to a classic boogie fever As though there be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 250th Birthday, Anything, Aspiration, Beethoven, Bent Pitches, Black Jazz, Blue, Boogie Fever, Brilliance, Call, Catharsis, Celebrate, Charm, Classic, Composition, Cool, Dance, Dark, Deaf Man, Define, Dim, Divide, Ear, Energy, Everything, Forget, Gershwin, Get Up, Greater Than, Hang In There, Happiness, Harmony, Heart Strings, Hearts, Hope, Humor, Imposition, Improvisation, Inspiration, Instrumental, Interlude, Joy, Kick, Lever, Loss, Love, Masterpiece, Missed, Mood, Moonbeam, Morals, Music, Musical, Need, Pandemic, Parts, Persevere, Photograph, Place, Playlist, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Resilience, Rhapsody, Romance, Sign, Songs, Sonic, Soul, Sounds, Spirit, Star, Stick, Sweep, Teach, Tone, Troubled Times, Tunes, Universe, Verse, Voice, Wall, Way, We, Where, Who, Whole, Write | Leave a comment

An Expectancy of Government

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A continuing look at American history: An Expectancy of Government by Michael Doyle Approaches as it had been in hesitancy No gave the Constitution great expectancy As a blue print for what had been built To house a people in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1800, Agrarian, Alien and Sedition Act, American History, Americas, Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Blue Print, British, Clause, Commerical Power, Common Man, Consolidation, Constitution, Country, Debt, Destruction, Dire, Division, Double, Ear, Economy, Election, Enumerated Powers, Era, Expectancy, Fair Trade, Farewell Address, Farm, Federalist, Federalist Party, Foreign Entanglement, Foreign Policy, French Revolution, Global, Golden Goose, Government, Great Plan, Hamilton, Harbinger, Ideology, Indispensable Man, James Madison, Jefferson, John Adams, Judiciary, Knell, Libel, Liberty, Light, Loose, Louisiana Purchase, Madison v. Marbury, Marshall, Maturation, Misery, Missouri, Missouri Compromise, Monarch, Monroe Doctrine, Mount Vernon, Nation, National Bank, Necessary, Neutrality, New Jersey, Nullifcation, Photograph, Pirate, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Potential, Power, Preservation, Primacy, Proper, Prosperity, Railroad, Republic, Resolution, Responsibility, Review, Right, Risk, Safety, Shoulder, Slander, Slavery, Strict Construction, Tariff, Teach, Territory, The Star Spangled Banner, Virginia, War of 1812, Washington, Washington D.C., Wolf | Leave a comment

Set’s Legacy

Posted on March 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A continuing look at Egyptian myth: Set’s Legacy by Michael Doyle Only a mad man would steal Those things that a god would conceal Two bridges rigged with traps Cloaked in the veil of mystery wraps All power is centered … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anubis, Banks, Blaze, Blind, Border, Breath, Bridges, Cheat, Clever, Cloak, Conceal, Darkness, Dead, Deal, Death, Deceive, Deception, Deed, Defy, Descend, Ear, Egyptian, End, Eternal, Evil, Eyes, Fame, Fates, Forgiving, Friends, God, Grace, Harshness, Heart, History, Immortality, Journey, Labyrinth, Legacy, Light, Living, Love, Lovers, Mad Man, Mortality, Mystery, Myth, Nile, Nine Gates, Obelisk, Order, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Proclaim, Reverence, Secret, Set, Skies, Smile, Speak, Steal, Strong, Sun, Thousand, Trap, Truth, Two, Undone, Veil, Whisper, Wish, Wound | Leave a comment

A Humble Path Past Conflict

Posted on November 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Part of living a life with more gratitude might include less fight and conflict and greater humility. Poem #2 for this season of thankfulness: A Humble Path Past Conflict by Michael Romani With gratitude not as demanding Toward the God … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Allow, Angle, Blame, Build, Co-Creative, Communicate, Conflict, Crucial, Demand, Destination, Divinity, Ear, Either/Or, Eye, Fascination, Find, Form, Gain, God, Grace, Grateful, Gratitude, Heal, Heart, Humble, Humility, Invite, Live, Need, Openness, Pain, Path, Peace, People, Petty, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Power, Reframe, Reject, Relate, Relationship, Release, Ritual, Share, Something, Spark, Strive, Stumble, Thankfulness, Theology, Thing, Three, Triangle, Tribe, Unity, Worship | Leave a comment

Secret Melody

Posted on September 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There is a secret melody that plays in the heart of all who love. Secret Melody by Michael Romani A memory caught in a secret song Swell of timbre that seems to strong Music has its way with those Whose … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apart, Beating, Day, Deep, Destiny, Dream, Ear, Faith, Family, Follow, Forever, Heart, History, Know, Legacy, Lesson, Life, Love, Melancholy, Melody, Memory, Mind, Music, Mystery, Near, Pain, Photograph, Play, Plaza, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Regret, Secret, Sing, Smile, Song, Sun, Teach, Timbre, Treasure, Whisper, You | Leave a comment