Tag Archives: Girls

Thought For the Day: We Need To Move Beyond the Idea That Girls Can Be Leaders and Create the Expectation That They Should Be Leaders

Posted on November 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.” – Condoleezza Rice

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beyond, Condoleezza Rice, Expectation, Girls, Idea, Leaders, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

A Huntington Beach Memory

Posted on March 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Huntington Beach Memoryby Michael DoyleThe sand in my shoesHolds a Midas shadowOver time passages and windowsOf all these memories and bluesMy eyes rise to the timeless skiesWhen certain songs on the radio playThis, then, is no real disguiseFor the … Continue reading →

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Club Handy

Posted on September 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Club Handyby Michael DoyleEvery showman is a tricksterA sophisticated and tragically hipsterLeaving the girls with smiles on their facesMoving them deeply with his tracesIt’s a carnival of scamPutting on the ritualistic glamWith bated breath ready to flyAs heartbreak paints the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bated Breath, Blues, Carnival, Club Handy, Colonel, Danger, Dirty and Gritty, Faces, Flow, Girls, Glam, God Given Gifts, Heartbreak, High Class, Hipster, King, Life On the Road, Mama's Eyes, Merchandising, Mesmerize, Misunderstood, Money, Monkeys, Poetry and Poems, Riffs, Scam, Sell, Shady Past, Shaken Hips, Show, Showman, Smiles, Sophisticated, Tale, Traces, Trickster, Whispers | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #9: The Covid Vaccination To Do List

Posted on April 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #9: The Covid Vaccination To Do Listby Michael DoyleIt’s spreading outAcross this nationI’ve had my doubtsBut, time for the second vaccinationThat then is list oneAnd now that it is doneIt’s time for second upSince I’ve drunk this winning cupAfter … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandoned Theater, Across, Alive, Already Done, Also Item One, Appreciate, Coordinate, Covid, Do My Duty, Do My Prt, Done, Doubts, Feeling, Final Examination, From the Word, Girls, Gloom, Heart Lifting, I Love Them, Item Five, Just For Me, Lake Michigan, Lakeside View, Let Them, Life's Beauty, List, Long Day, Long Walk, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Needed Action, No Grief, No Immune System, Number Three, Only Forgotten, Poetry and Poems, Post Vaccination, Promise, Reasons, Relief, Satisfaction, Second Up, Second Vaccination, Sit Here, Spreading Out, Survive, Taken All, Thankful, Time, To Do List, Truly Know, Two, Vaccination, Visual Take, Wait, Waiting Room, Winning Cup | Leave a comment

When Children Speak

Posted on July 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When our children speak, we should listen. We never know what we might learn? If nothing else how they see the world. And I can think of no greater gift than understanding the world through the eyes and hearts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Allowed, Beauty, Believe and Love, Carry On, Change, Children, Communicate, Compassion, Complicity, Even When Wrong, Eyes and Hearts, Fascinate, Find, Finding Their Way, Girls, Gone, Hearts and Minds, Heaven Above, Heritage, Hope, Intensity, Know, Lean, Left, Listen, Look, Love, Moment, No Greater Gift, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Proud, Reason, Recompense, Reflect, See the World, Simply Young, Speak, Speak In Tongues, Strange, Study, Taught, Tell Me All, Temptation, Things Said, Truth, Unafraid, Unintended Consequence, Urge, Watch, Worthy, Wrong, Youth | Leave a comment

Happy Mother’s Day, Too

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My ex-wife could never gracefully receive a present. Not just from me but from our daughters, they tell me. Still, despite all, there is one gift I would yet give her on this day particularly after the reminders received over … Continue reading →

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Gifts From the Heart

Posted on April 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 20 of Na/GloPoWriMo, 2020! 2/3rds of the way through this year’s event. The optional prompt is to “write a poem about a handmade or homemade gift that you have received“. Gifts From the Heart by Michael Doyle Since divorce … Continue reading →

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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse

Posted on April 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading →

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Moments Spent

Posted on February 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Spending time with my girls was an awesome experience as always. Moments Spent by Michael Romani Spending time with these two All of our moments are too few Dreams shaping in their minds Gifts of smiles of which I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Table Top Theology

Posted on December 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today is a day with some great choices. Never being one for liking too many choices.. let’s celebrate all three in a way and still keep it in the season? So how about a poem for Gingerbread House Day, National … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bethlehem, Bored, Bright, Candy, Christmas Eve, Christmas Star, Christmas Tunes, Chuck Berry, Ding A Ling, Divinity, Doom and Gloom, Family, Five Points, Frosting, Gingerbread House, Girls, Grin, Holy, House of Bread, Kitchen, Modern Days, Nuance, Oldies Station, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poinsettia, Restore, Rotary, Smile, Snow, Soon, Spirit, Star of David, Sweater, Table, Theology, Trivia, TV, Urban Dictionary, Wall | Leave a comment