Tag Archives: Everything

Notes That Play

Posted on September 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Notes That Playby Michael DoyleThe notes that playRemind us of yesterdayIn happiness and sympathyWe feel this in the melodyThat plays forever in our mindsThe feelings we won’t leave behindEvery second, magic we reliveAll the notes that our hearts giveHeart stops … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Along the Way, Amazing, Busy Days, Carry Us, Dance, Each Day, Embrace, Everything, Feel, Feeling, Forever, Grace, Happiness, Hearts, Leave Behind, Length, Listen, Live, Love, Magic, Melody, Miles, Mind, Music, Notes, Okay, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Remind, Second, Sense, Smiles, Songs, Sympathy, Through, Tunes, Worse Day, Yesterday, You | Leave a comment

Trying To Bottle Up

Posted on August 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Trying To Bottle Upby Michael DoyleTrying to bottle up all the troubleStraight talking never ever doubleIs something that is next to impossibleSomething of which I know I’m incapableBut, I would do almost anything To keep you safe from all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anything, Bottle Up, Correct, Cross, Crucify, Daughters, Dignify, Double, Everything, False Move, Father, Guilty, Imperfect, Impossible, Impress, Improve, Incapable, Know, Loss, Loved, Pardon Me, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pound of Flesh, Safe, Straight Talk, Strong, Trouble, Wait, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We’re Going To Do Everything That We Can To Elect Biden and – After He’s Elected – Move This Country In As Progressive A Way As We Possibly Can

Posted on August 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We’re going to do everything that we can to elect Biden and — after he’s elected — move this country in as progressive a way as we possibly can.” – Senator Bernie Sanders I believe Biden is just subterfuge. First … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged After He's Elected, Biden, Elect, Everything, Move This Country, Possibly Can, Progressive Way, Senator Bernie Sanders, Thought For the Day, We | Leave a comment

Bucket List Cools

Posted on August 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

During this time of limited travel and doing what we can to get through while making history simply by living as well as possible as we adapt to Covid, it’s maybe time to look at bucket lists. Bucket List Cools … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aces, Adapt, Beginning, Bloom, Bring Me, Bucket List, Burning Hot, Checking My List Off, Coming Up, Conspire, Cool, Covid, Crossed Off, Determine, Done, Dreaming, Dreams, Every Day, Everything, Feel, Flames, Forgot, Full Life, Get My Living In, Global, Golden, Growing Room, Heart, High Fever, History, Inside, Know the Way, Last Chance, Living, Lock Down, Making History, Making the Best, Mind, Move, Mystery, Need, Once Again, One By One, Opportunity, Passionate, Photograph, Photos, Planted, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Pushing Too Hard, Remains, Roads, Rules, Running, Seed, Shake, Shimmy, Sown, Travel, Universe, Victor's Crown, Wild Card, Wire | Leave a comment

Lifted Song

Posted on July 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A sort of song of praise: Lifted Song by Michael Doyle With a lifted song I find myself drawn To where I belong Awakening with the dawn I’ve seen all that you’ve done Mystified by the glory of the Son … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awaken, Belong, Change, Crown, Dawn, Days, Done, Doubt, Down, Drawn, Each Moment, Everything, Faith, Flood, Glory, Heart, Lift, Mean, Myself, Mystify, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pours Out, Praise, Proclaim, Reason, Release, Sacred Place, Seen, Shine, Sing, Son, Song, Songs, Space, Story, Victory, Worship | Leave a comment

In Dream’s Shadow

Posted on July 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of a word play on a Celtic adventure of romance, magic and dreams. In Dream’s Shadow by Michael Doyle Drowning in your spell My secrets to reveal Fallen to blade you wield I suddenly find, I yield To sleep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Blade, Bring, Celtic, Day Breaks, Dream, Dream's Shadow, Dreams, Drown, Ebbs, Everything, Fail, Fair, Fallen, Find, Flows, Follow, Go, Hair, Heart, Hips, Inside, Know, Lips, Magic, My secrets, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Romance, Scarlet, Search, Seen, Shadow, Sleep, Snare, Spell, Two Hands, What Was Once Not, Wield, Word Play, Words, Yield, Your Love | Leave a comment

First Principles: Laws Are Made For Men of Ordinary Understanding and Should…Be Construed By the Ordinary Rules of Common Sense

Posted on June 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Anything, Common Sense, Construed, Everything, First Principles, Laws, Mean, Meaning, Men, Metaphysical, Nothing, Ordinary Rules, Ordinary Understanding, Pleasure, Subtle, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

First Principles: Public Sentiment Is Everything. With Public Sentiment, Nothing Can Fail; Without It, Nothing Can Succeed

Posted on June 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Everything, Fail, First Principles, Nothing, Public Sentiment, Succeed | Leave a comment

The Mystery of Crow

Posted on June 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another inspired by the blues I listened to on my road trip today. I have to say, while there are scenic road trip guides, this is the first time I’ve driven the beautiful country roads of Morgan and Monroe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allusion, Bangles, Begin, Blossom, Blues, Blues History, Carolinian, Change, Country Roads, Crow, Dance, Dark Delight, Divine, Everything, Fly, Friends, Groove, Heartbreak, High, Indiana, Life, Mastery, Meet, Memories, Mountain, Mystery, Night, Nothing, Oriole, Outshone, Pages, Pass, Passion, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purity, Rearrange, Remember, Rhythm, Road Trip, Self Assured, Shadow, Smokey Joe, Something, Songbird, Soul Shake, Sparkle, Sugar Cane, When, Whirlwind, Window | 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