Tag Archives: Fire

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 →

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Something In the Time

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A brief reflection on life: Something In the Time by Michael Doyle There’s something wonderful to life Full of patterns and rhythms rife Skipping stones across wooded streams And summer evenings filled with dreams Beautifully seen through your elven eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful, Blessing, Corridor, Creep, Crumble, Dazzle, Desire, Dream, Elven, Eyes, Fascination, Feeling, Fire, Fleet, Hope, Indiscretion, Life, Light, Meet, Moments, Moving, Mystic, New Norm, Night Skies, Pattern, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhythm, Rise, Skipping Stones, Something, Spark, Speak, Storm, Stream, Sublime, Summer, Summer Evenings, Sun, Suntan, Time, Tongue Tied, Travel, Walk, Whisper, Wonderful, Woods | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

Lessons From Eden Park

Posted on May 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Roaring Twenties were a fascinating time. Among the lessons to be learned was that a woman could do and be more than they had been allowed until then, vice and other personal choices could not be controlled and that … Continue reading →

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Guarding Against Faction

Posted on May 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Today’s poem about American history speaks on some basic principles as set out in largely in Federalist Paper Number 10 in which we choose to become a republic and not a democracy to protection of nation from the encroachment of … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire

Posted on May 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Allowances, Ann Landers, Fire, Forgiving, Friendship, Good and Bad Times, Love, Loyalty, Mutual Confidence, Perfection, Quiet Understanding, Sharing, Thought For the Day, Weaknesses | Leave a comment

The Dreamwork of Nightmares

Posted on May 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these dark times when it is so hard to be optimistic, can anyone be blamed for having nightmares? But what then are these? The Dreamwork of Nightmares by Michael Doyle Even still as we grow and mature We find … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actuality, Alarm, Arrival, Bad, Believe, Blame, Bodily Defect, Books, Brain, Caverns, Clean, Clear, Complete, Context, Contortion, Curtain, Dark Side, Dark Times, Demons, Depression, Derision, Desire, Distortion, Division, Dream, Dreams, Dreamwork, Each, Endure, Erupt, Fear, Find, Fire, Flood, Fulfillment, Full Color, Fuzzy, Ghost Written, Gods, Graceless, Greet, Grow, Hide, Human Nature, Impression, Impure, Irony, Layer, Level, Live Out, Masterpiece, Mature, Measure, Mind, Moments, Monochromatic, Multiplicity, Naked, Needless, Nightmare, Nightmares, One, Optimistic, Pages, Photograph, Play Out, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Psyche, Reality, Rebound, Rehearse, Repression, Responsibility, Sanitize, Scenes, Scripts, Seem, Self, Self Justified, Shelves, Significance, Soul, Stages, Suffer, Suitable, Suppression, Survival, Thoughtless, Trigger, True, Undone, Unpack, Us, Warp, Way, Wish, Wishes | Leave a comment

To Become A Knight

Posted on April 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

To be a knight is to be a servant for the country and its people. To Become A Knight by Michael Doyle The darkness is coming There’s no use in running Ruthlessly conquering as it comes It brings us to … Continue reading →

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Like Mercury Colliding

Posted on April 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s day 16 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, 2020! What’s the challenge you ask? “…to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke … Continue reading →

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Mathing the COVID-19 Curve

Posted on April 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading →

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