Tag Archives: Embrace

Checking My To-Dos

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something that was kind of fun to come up with on my guitar: Checking My To-Dos by Michael Doyle Checking my to-dos Off of my list Brushing by your lips That needed kissed Baby, don’t you cry We’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baby, Brush, Chase It Back, Checking, Confess, Cry, Cup, Dogs, Dress, Drink, Embrace, Eyes, Kiss, Lips, List, Mess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pull, Shake, Shut, Sighs, Sometimes, Squeeze, Taste, To Do, We, Why, Witness | Leave a comment

A Haunting Place

Posted on June 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ghosts don’t require ancient castles or haunted Victorian homes. Sometimes the most haunting place is alone inside a person’s mind. A Haunting Place by Michael Doyle Inside my mind is a haunting place Filled with missed memories I wish to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Alone, Arise, Assassin, Awake, Break, Chains, Compart, Contentment, Contradictions, Coup, Cross-Examination, Cut Off, Doubt, Embrace, Eyes, Ghosts, Haunting, Head, Help, Hidden, Humble, Impossibility, Inherent, Inner Ghost, Inside, Late At Night, Loss, Lost, Mature, Me, Mind, Mirror, Missed Memories, Morning Light, Most, Nature, Peer, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Ricochet, Said, See me, Self, Shade, True Heart, Truth | Leave a comment

21st Century Goings On

Posted on June 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to George Floyd and all victims of brutality in hope that we may yet find our way to a more just and less cruel world shared in our walk of humanity. Marvin Gaye would probably be rolling over in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, America, Antifa, Arm In Arm, Belong, Better Way, Brick, Brother, Brutality, Burning Down, Cancer, City, Common Bonds, Conquer, Cruel World, Death, Despair, Do the Trick, Dying, Each Other, Embrace, Farther, Father, Find Our Way, George Floyd, God's Sake, Goings On, Good Answer, Hate, Humanity, Just, Lawlessness, Light, Locking, Loss, Love, Make, Martin Luther King Jr, Marvin Gaye, Me, Mother, Not Too Late, Our Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Radicals, Rage, Right, Riot, Scar, See, Shared Humanity, Sigh, Strong, Talk Your Truth, Tell Me Now, Terms, The Streeets, Think, Today, Together, Uncaring, Understanding, Unjustified Homocide, Us, Walk, We, Weary, What's Going On, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

On Habits of Soap, Water and Masks

Posted on May 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest princess is fond of teasing the truth that we are living history. What a memory this all will be one day won’t it? They’ll be able to say they lived through a global crisis and remember things … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alcohol, Antibody, Block, Car, Common Sense, Crowns, Daughters, Destructive, Disabuse, Disrupt, Embrace, Epidemiology, Face, Fancy, Father, Global Crisis, Habit, Learn, Live, Living History, Manipulate, Mask, Me and You, Memory, New Norm, Notion, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Protect, Protein, Safe and Sane, Scientists, Smile, Soap, Soap and Water, Strategy, Trials, Used, Viral, Virus, Wash Our Hands, Water | Leave a comment

Blowing Down the Walls

Posted on May 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Corinthians 2:14-16: Blowing Down the Walls by Michael Doyle Blown away by righteousness and grace Profound joy takes down all my walls Mercy has taken me to this place I have found my peace in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Authority, Badness, Blessed, Blow, Blown Away, Call, Child, Christ, Climb, Corinthians, Crush, Days, Depth, Earnest, Embrace, Exaltation, Extol, Fall, Fool, God, God's Ways, Golden Rule, Good, Grace, Grief, Head, Heart, His, Hunger, Influence, Invitation, Jericho, Joy, Knees, Life, Live, Longing, Mercy, Others, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Presence, Relief, Reverence, Righteousness, Seek, Shout, Silence, Skin, Soul, Sovereignty, Squalls, Stand, Steps, Surrender, Tree, Turn, Understood, Walls | Leave a comment

Nourishing the Spirit

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 5:6: Nourishing the Spirit by Michael Doyle Blessed are those who hunger and thirst Putting the ways of righteousness first Sustained as these are in their every day Effected as we are; moving out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Amen, Betterment, Biology, Bite, Blessed, Body, Book of Matthew, Change, Condemnation, Convention, Day, Destiny, Divinity, Dopamine, Dread, Effect, Embrace, Endure, Faith, Feelings, First, God, God's Kingdom, God's Word, Grab, Guzzle, Heaven, Humanity, Hunger, Hungers, Jesus, Journey, Life, Marathon, March, Metaphor, Miles, Mix, Move, Mystery, Nourish, Order, Path of Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Love, Race, Rearrange, Redemption, Rhythm, Righteous, Righteousness, Sacrifice, Satisfaction, Satisfied, Self Actualization, Sigh, Sleeves, Smile, Space, Spirit, Sustain, Theology, Thirst, Time, Trick, Tug, Walk, Warn, Ways, Whim, Whisper | Leave a comment

Don Quixote Reexamined

Posted on May 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions | Leave a comment

On Perspective and Horizon

Posted on May 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A second look at photographic composition: On Perspective and Horizon by Michael Doyle A good clean background Focuses the attention When aptly found These photos are worthy of retention Layered photographs have their place But cleaner is best to embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Add, Angles, Attention, Background, Beginner, Big Deal, Block, Build, Camera, Capture, Change, Clean, Complete, Composition, Cooking, Detail, Distraction, Drama, Embrace, Focus, Fog, Forward, Found, Glory, High, Horizon, Horizon Line, Human Being, Kick, Know, Layered Phototgraphs, Looking, Low, Matter, Mountain, Overdone, Perspective, Photographs, Photos, Picture, Place, Poem, Poetry, Popping Out, Read, Retention, Satisfaction, Seen, Shatter, Sing, Smoke, Story, Subject, Sun, Toward, Trick | Leave a comment

Awed By Living

Posted on May 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life is for the living. Let’s do it well! Awed By Living by Michael Doyle Counting the things of needed gratitude Instead of too often taking an attitude At and of those things of circumstance Forgetting to realize each moment’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ask, Attitude, Awe, Awesomeness, Blessed, Blind, Bliss, Blissfulness, Blunder, Bright, Bring Downs, Bumper Sticker, Chance, Child, Circumstance, Cliche, Count, Cut, Dare, Darkness, Destroy, Drag, Dreams, Embrace, Endurance, Engaged, Enjoy, Erase, Forget, Gratitude, Gravity, Harshness, Headfirst, Ignore, Large, Life, Light, Living, Mentality, Miss, Moment, Moments, More, Need, Often, Openness, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Race Race, Reach, Realize, Right, Sacred, Second Guessed, Sentimentality, Smiles, Soar, Spontaneous, Well, Wonder | Leave a comment

An Examination of Novels

Posted on May 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When it comes to fiction, there is no greater work of prose than the novel. An Examination of Novels by Michael Doyle A fiction in prose of a certain extent Presented in many ways of palatable content How further might … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allege, Art, Best Voice, Chronology, Circumstance, Classics, Complicate, Content, Define, Demand, Diversion, Division, Double Helix, Dreams, Embrace, Examination, Extent, Extraordinary, Fiction, Forms, Glory, Hamlet, Heroes, Human Beings, Irony, Jourmalism, Journal, Literature, Love, Mankind, Metafiction, Modality, Modes, Moments, Mortality, Mythology, Narrative, Novel, Novels, Ordinary, Palatable, Perspective, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Present, Pretense, Professionalism, Prose, Real Life, Realism, Refine, Romance, Smile, Story, Style, Superlative, Tales, True, Understanding, Words, World | Leave a comment