Tag Archives: Fragile

Decency

Posted on March 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Decencyby Michael DoyleYou’re a diamondIn a world of human coalBecause you know the worthOf the human soulFragile and fallible as we areWe dream of living our dreamsClinging to every falling starEven as we’re falling apart t our seamsOur dignity frayed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Close Your Mind, Decency, Diamond, Dignity, Dreams, Falling Star, Fate, Fragile, Gasp of Air, Human Coal, Last Stand, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Risks, Seams, Sedate, Semblance, Soul, Splendor, Standing Strong, Strain, Strands, Surrender, Working Hard, World's Care, Worth | Leave a comment

Speck of Dust

Posted on April 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Speck of Dustby Michael DoyleThis speck of dust on which we restIs the speck of dust that is our testUnwritten laws frame our mindsAnd what is left when we no longer findThat the laws written serve us wellAnd that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Beauty, Bound, Century, Come Apart, Create, Dare To Love, Dream, Eon, Find, Flawlessly Broken, Fragile, Hand In Hand, Hope, Know, Learn, Live, Mind, More, Never Die, Our Lives, Pain, Pain and Misery, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Serve Us Well, Simply Survive, Speck of Dust, Star, Tale, Test, Tragedy, Truth, Unwritten Laws, Words Spoken | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It’s Precisely Because COVID-19 Has Shown Us That Life Is So Fragile That We Should Make A Priority To Actually Live It

Posted on November 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s precisely because COVID-19 has shown us that life is so fragile that we should make a priority to actually live it.” – Karol Marcowicz

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged COVID-19, Fragile, Karol Marcowicz, Life, Live It, Precise, Priority, Shown, Thought For the Day, We | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Age, Agreement, All, Appearance, Array, Attached, Breath, Broken Down, Canopy, Chess, Coffin, Complication, Confess, Conversation, Crul, Damnation, Dark, Deaf and Dumb, Death, Destination, Destroyer, Detached, Door, Dracula, Drape, Elegance, Eternity, Eyes, Eyes To See, Fear, Feared, Flies, Fog, Fragile, Glory, Good, Good Company, Hard, Hunger, Intuition, Journey, Knight, Known, Life, Light, Listen, London, Losing Side, Mark, Master, Master of Darkness, Means, Menace, Middle, Necessary Evil, Night, Nightfall, Obvious, Passage, Penalty, Photograph, Plain, Plans, Poem, Poetry, Price, Queen, Ravenous, Read, Sail, Scratches, Sea, Shaking Hands With the Devil, Ship, Slavery, Speak, Spice, Stark, Story, Strangeness, Tale, Test, Travel, Truth, Turns, Understand, Voyage, Vulgarity, Wages, Wickedness | Leave a comment

On the Importance of True History

Posted on March 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How did an intellectual fraud like Howard Zinn become the go to guy for American history in our public schools? It’s sort of outrageous. I remember when I was of a different mindset and more open to his … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Analysis, Battlefields, Been, Best, Better, Bible, Blood, Bloody, Books, Celebration, Children, Choice, Circumstance, Civilization, Cognitive, Complexity, Consent, Context, Criticism, Decision, Deconstruction, Destruction, Direction Observation, Distortion, Enmesh, Examine, Eyes, Fail, Fate, Finest Hours, Fix, Fixed, Forget, Fragile, Freedom, Frontier, Good, Governed, Gun, Happenstance, History, Hope, Howard Zinn, Illustration, Important, Inquiry, Insight, Intellectual Fraud, Judgment, Lesson, Liberty, Light, Long Ago, Loss, Manipulate, Mankind, Moments, Mortal Needs, Muddy, Nation, New World, Observation, Old World, Optimisim, Past, Path, Perspective, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Power, Present, Price, Recall, Reflective, Revolution, Right, Sacrifice, Search, Skew, Snapshot, Social, Soul, Sown, Suffice, Think, Time, Treasure, True, Truth, Twin, Unfold, War, When, Whole, Willing, Wise | Leave a comment

Ways of Survival

Posted on September 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In the long and short of it, life is really about survival. Ways of Survival by Michael Romani And so at once, we reach our arrival That everything that happens is about survival Each Fall we are reminded of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Angry, Arrive, Blessing, Blue, Chill, Cry, Do, Dream, Earth, Empathy, End, Extinction, Fall, Fear, Fire, Forget, Fragile, Frame, Guesstimate, Happen, History, Immortal, Leaves, Life, Love, Mad Tea Party, Mass, Mercy, Moments, Mother Nature, Name, Passing Year, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Push, Rake, Realize, Regret, Resources, Revolve, Ripple, Serial Killer, Skipped Stone, Strife, Struggle, Suicide, Survival, Survive, Think, Way | Leave a comment

At A Half Mumble

Posted on September 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Like the song says, if there’s a rock n heaven, you know they got a heck of a band. Have you ever really stopped to think on all those who rose up like some latter day shamen only to burn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Band, Bend, Blend, Blind, Blues, Burn, Complex, Devil, Dignity, Distort, Dreams, Emotion, End, Epitaph, Fade, Fragile, Frontier, Future, Generation, Genuine, Gracious, Ground, Happy, Heaven, High, Hills, Hint, History, Ideal, Learn, Left, Magic, Melody, Memory, Mind, Mixed Message, Mumble, Personal Level, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Promises, Puzzle, Rock N Roll, Rush, Said, Shade, Shake, Shaman, Show, Sigh, Signal, Sonic, Sould, Space Out, Steely Eyes, Stolen Line, Strength, Sweep, Tender, Toxic, Troubador, Weep, Whisper, Wind | Leave a comment

Only Miracles Can

Posted on August 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There are so many miracles that surround us and are even part of us that we have come to take them for granted. I love when I am reminded of this. Only Miracles Can by Michael Romani There’s an alien … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Alien, Bacteria, Below, Cavern, Darkness, Descend, Environment, Face, Fragile, Granted, Life, Liquid, Miracle, Moon, Nothing, Outer Space, Plume, Poem, Poetry, Remind, Scratched Surface, Search, Something, Soup, Spun, Underground Cave, Understand, Water, World | Leave a comment

Blown Away

Posted on July 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I guess it’s not much of a confession to say that I love art and the arts, right? Have you ever looked at what it takes to create blown glass art? Years ago, at an amusement park I know of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accident, Art, Attention, Beauty, Blown Glass, Break, Breath, Butterfly, Chice, Clock, Cool, Correct, Cracking, Creativity, Design, Desire, Disaster, Eternity, Face, Finesse, Fire, Flowers, Fragile, Funnels, Furnace, Glory Hole, Gravity, Haunt, Heart, Hollow Pipe, Inspirtation, Intimate, Lesson, Light, Lime, Liquid Glass, Maker, Master, Meditation, Mold, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Punsies, Rendition, Reveal, Roll, Sand, Scuplt, Shakers, Shape, Simple, Snapshot, Soda, Tick, Vase, Vases, Voice, World | Leave a comment

Gestures To Hope

Posted on January 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Gestures To Hope by Michael Romani A shadow hangs over the dinner table In a manifestation of what we are capable As our fixation on intolerant ideology Marks the vandalization of our history Peace and good will for a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Buddleia, Dark, Fragile, Gestures, History, Hope, Humanity, Intolerance, Life, Mood, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Shadow, Urban Decay | Leave a comment