Tag Archives: Grow Up

I’m Not the Kind of Father

Posted on September 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

I’m Not the Kind of Fatherby Michael DoyleI’m not the kind of fatherWho can spend a lot of moneyHowever much I love my daughtersMy ex thinks this is funnyShe complains about the money she spendsDespite the child support givenAnd I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Another, Answer, Best, Best of My Best, Blindness, Books, Brain, Busy, Cherish, Child Support, Cling, Compare, Complain, Could Be, Daughters, Deep, Disease, Doctors, Down Stairs, Doze Off, Dream On, Easy, Eighteen, Every Breath, Ex, Faces, Fall Asleep, Father, Forgiven, Funny, Go On, God, Gone, Grow Up, Hate, Hug, Hurry, I, Insane, Inside Me, Last Night, Lasting Memories, Life Upends, Limits, Listen, Live, Love, Memory Loss, Money, My Miracles, Need, Need to Know, Night, Not Letting Them Know, Other, Payers, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rest, Seems, Seen, Shelf, Spend, Steps, Sweetest Dreams, Taken, Tell, Time, Tolerably, Traces, Unkindness, Wake, Walk, Wearing Me Down, Wish, Wonder | Leave a comment

For Your 16th Birthday

Posted on August 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For Your 16th Birthdayby Michael DoyleThe hours are past and moved into the nightI was blessed by a day that you made brightA day before your actual birthday but beautifulIt was a celebration of how you’re so wonderfulSweet daughter of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 16th Birthday, Beautiful, Birthday, Blessed, Bright, Celebration, Daughter of Mine, Did Good, Face, Father, Gift, Greatest Treasures, Grow, Grow Up, Guess, Heart's Delight, Hours, Know, Live, Loving Daughter, Night, One, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Proud, Shopping, Smile, Step Farther, Thank God, Trial, Watch, Ways, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Stormfront Awakening

Posted on April 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Stormfront Awakeningby Michael DoyleLooking around with any sense of credibilityIt would be the rare bird that had the abilityTo credibly claim with any sense of the plausibleThat politically awakening was something avoidableAll around the stormfront threatens from all sidesThe turning … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Affront, Ameica, American Liberty, Antilife, At the Ready, Avoidable, Awaken, Blame, Blind Eye, Catastrophe, Change, Children, Christian School, Claim, Condemn, Confront, Credibility, Criminals, Daily, Deathstyle, Editors, Enemy, Evil, Fabrication, Fade, False Equivlencies, Feelings, Flashpoint, Fools, Golden Rule, Good, Governing Class, Grow Up, Guise, Gutter Talking, Harm, Healthy, Holy Writ, Hucksters, Hypocrisy, Identity Politics, Illogical, Inconsistency, Kavanaugh, Legalities, Looking Around, Love, Manufactured, Mentally Ill, Misgendering, Missing, Misunderstood, Morality, Morality Play, Morally Vapid, Mostly Peaceful Riots, Nation, Needed Laws, No Choice, Plausible, Poetry and Poems, Polciies, Politically Awakening, Politically Connected, Pride, Protect, Protecting, Radical Propaganda, Rare Bird, Real Victims, Reality, Reasonable Persons, Reasonable Voice, Return, Rhetorical Tropes, Rivet the Attention, Sandmann, Shade, Shame, Sides, Slumber, Spin, Stormfront, Strategy, Summer 2020, Tempt, The Left's, Thinker, Tools, Tortured Renderings, Truth, Turning Point, Two-Tiered Justice System, Unarmed, Unite, Wake Up, Wise, World | Leave a comment

Love Was There

Posted on July 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

There’s Maybe Nothing Better

Posted on December 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There’s Maybe Nothing Betterby Michael DoyleThere is maybe nothingThat could be any betterHowever bright or gloomyThe day has turned the weatherThan spending this Sunday afternoonWatching dreams with my daughtersHearts overflowing with joy soonWatching Rudolph with their fatherThere’s nothing like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Better, Born, Bright, Confide, Daughters, Day, Differences, Dreams, Every Heart, Father, Fit, Follow, Girls and Boys, Gloomy, Good, Grow Up, Hearts, Hide, Joy, Lesson, Love, Loving World, Memory, Misfit, Misfit Toys, Nothing Better, One, Outrun, Place, Poetry and Poems, Room Enough, Rudolph, Sunday Afternoon, Together, Tomorrow, Troubles, True, Understood, Weather, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: To Live Content With Small Means; To Let the Spiritual, Unbidden and Unconscious, Grow Up Through the Common — This Is My Symphony

Posted on May 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Act Frankly, Await Occasions, Babes, Birds, Channing, Common, Elegance, Fashion, Grow Up, Hurry Never, Listen, Live Content, Luxury, Open Heart, Refinement, Respectable, Rich, Sages, Small Means, Spiritual, Stars, Study Hard, Symphony, Talk Gently, Think Quietly, Thought For the Day, Unbidden, Unconscious, Wealthy, William Henry, Worthy | Leave a comment

Approached Threshold

Posted on February 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When you approach sacred places and times and spaces do you appreciate the transformative moment you are in? Approached Threhold by Michael Romani Growing up in the present age We are encouraged to seek after sages Seeking our shifts in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Approach, Collide, Driven, Embrace, Encourage, Fight, Found, Ground, Grow Up, Hand, Heart, Ideas, Information, Inner, Journey, Love, Navigate, Nervous, Offer, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point of View, Pursue, Realization, Respective, Reverent, Sage, Scold, Self Actualization, Service, Share, Shift, Spark, Speed of Sound, Surrender, Tender, Threshold, Told, Transform, Transformation, Travel, Truth, Unfold, Vibration, Voyager | Leave a comment

The ABCDerian of Modern Life

Posted on April 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 19’s challenge is to write a ABCDerian. Here’s my attempt: The ABCDerian of Modern Life by Michael Romani Alphabet soup served as Breakfast that day Cereal having been ate Deliciously the other day Edible as these are Few … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged ABCDerian., Adults, Alphabet Soup, Babies, Breakfast, Cereal, Choices, Delicious, Family, Few, Grow Up, Kids, Limit, Meals, Modern Life, Modern Times, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nutrition, Overnight, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Quorum, Surrender, Together, Words, Zygotes | Leave a comment

Nostalgia For Guantanamo

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Takes Courage To Grow Into Who You Really Are

Posted on April 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are. “ — e.e. cummings

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Children, Courage, e.e. cummings, Grow Up, Identity, Individuals, Self, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment