Tag Archives: Guess

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

Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Better, Blessed, Bobbing and Weaving, Canada, Children, Cornfields, Could, Courtships, Cranes Mate Forever, Cycles, Dance, Danced, Dies, Different, Disregard, Drive, Every Moment, Every Year, Fail, Familial Groups, Feathered Paratroopers, Fledglings, Fleeting, Flight, Florida, Forget, Grouping, Guess, Happiness, Hardship, Harvested, Hearts, History, Hope, Humans, Ingrained, Inspired, Its Way, Jasper Pulaski, Keep, Landing, Last, Learn, Learning, Life, Loved, Marsh, Mate, Midwestern Flyway, Migrations, Migratory Routes, Minds, Momma and Poppa, Motion, Natural Wisdom, Nature, Nesting Grounds, Newly Planted, Next Generation, Nourishment, Observation Platform, Pilgrimage, Poetry and Poems, Point, Possible, Promises, Puzzle, Really So, Recognize, Remember, Rest, Revisited, Rituals of Dance, Romance, Romantic Couples, Sandhill Cranes, Scrabbles of Food, Should, Snow and Rain, Sorrow, Sounding Off, Spring, Survival, Taught, Think, Thousands, Times, Too Often, Trace, Tradition, Vain, Watch and Learn, Watching, Weariness, Wish, Wonder, Young, Zig-Zag Patterns | Leave a comment

Mountain Top Revelations

Posted on January 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Mountain Top Revelationsby Michael DoyleUnknown mountain tops to exploreIs an answer and a prayer for the moreThat comes from a world knowing lessIs actually more, the function search of a guessAs if there is still a peak yet to existIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Answers, Babble, BE Me, Clever, Corrupt, Disappear, Doubt, Duplicate, Exist, Explore, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom's Shout, Function, Guess, Hobbits, Laugh, Less, Mountain Tops, Outside World, Peak, Persist, Place, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Replcate, Revelations, Self-Control, Shire, Soul | Leave a comment

For Sierra At Age Thirteen

Posted on May 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

For Sierra At Age Thirteenby Michael DoyleIt seems only yesterdayThat you were a tweenAnd now my youngest princessIs aged perfectly to thirteenThere’s not a single dayThat I will ever forgetThe moments that have passedNor will I ever in any way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afternoon's Nap, Amazing Young Lady, Been, Birth, Birthday Song, Blessing, Blink, Candles, Card, Climbed Up, Darling Baby, Daughter, Days, Depart, Drink, Express, Far Away, Feel, Forget, God Knows, Grown Up, Guess, Happen, Hope, Laugh, Life, Lifetime, Live To Watch, Moments, My Heart, Never Stray, Now and Then, Only A Single Doubt, Part By Part, Passed, Perfectly, Poetry and Poems, Quickly, Regret, Sameness of Us, Sierra, Simple Words, Single Day, Smile, Softly, Tell Me Please, Thirteen, Tween, Victory Cup, Voice, Watching, Whisper, Woke Up, Yesterday, You'll Go Really Far, Youngest Princess | Leave a comment

Books Read Throughout Life

Posted on May 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidentally Taught, Another, Books, Connectives, Curl Up, Excuse, Experience, Failed, Finding Hope, Genius, Golden Rule, Guess, Hamlet, Know Better, Lessons, Look for the Less, Mantra, Mediocre Minds, Nobility, Our Eyes, Philosophy, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflective, Shakespeare, Sit, Sought, Space, Stage, Stages of Life, Steep, Stumble, Tragic Comedy, Truth Reflected, Vengeance, Words, World, Worth Another Look, Wrong, Yet to Learn, Youth | Leave a comment

Two of A Pair

Posted on November 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two of A Pairby Michael DoyleThat life would change and I’d be blessedWas something, I’d never have guessedUntil that day you looked my lonely wayLeaving me breathless and hoping to sayThat there might come some magical dayWhen I knew that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Pair, All Seasons, Beautiful Reasons, Beauty, Before the Fire, Blessed, Breathless, Caught Up, Change, Dare Say, Desire, Dismiss, Fall, God, Gratitude, Guess, Heart, Here To Stay, Hold You, Hope, Joy Fill, Keep Us, Knew, Leaves Fall, Life, Lonely Way, Long, Look, Love, Love Brings, Magical Day, Next Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quietly Pray, Say, Sings, Song, Spring, Summer, Sweet Kiss, That Day, Thoughts of You, Truth, Two, Two of A Pair, When We're Apart, Winter, Wish, Words, You and Me | Leave a comment

Guess It Goes Without Saying

Posted on August 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A poem from a free verse workshop that I am attending tonight: Guess It Goes Without Saying by Michael Doyle I guess it goes without saying In this crazy life we’re playing That You can’t have the light Without the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged ast, Cast, Colors, Contrast, Crazy Life, Darkness, Day, Day To Day, Don't Mind, Doubt, Emotional, Exist, Felt, Find, Free Verse, Function, Glass, Guess, Happiness, Hide, In-between, Know, Land Mines, Laughter, Life Actually Lived, Light, Lines, More To Say, My Mind, Need, Night, Pain, Persists, Photograph, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Present, Purity, Resent, Sane, Saying, Security, Shade, Shadow, Shatter, Sort, Take My Pass, Thrown Stones, Time, Uncertainty, Way, Window, Workshop | Leave a comment

A Life In Size

Posted on April 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The saga of Dracula continues: A Life In Size by Michael Doyle In the dark castle hangs her face A painting of the sunlight he once embraced Hidden within were passages of a maze Guarded from the sun that continues … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artist, Belief, Blame, Blaze, Blessing, Blood, Broken, Castle, Cave, Creatures of the Night, Cryptic, Darkness, Dead, Death, Devil, Dracula, Eat, End, Ending, Evil, Eyes, Face, Faith, Glow, Good, Gory, Guard, Guess, Hang, Hope, Hunger, Immortal, Immortality, Know, Language, Life, Light, Love, Loveless Marriage, Lucifer, Maze, Monster, Mortal, Pain, Painting, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Quest, Roof, Safety, Saga, Save, Secret, Shock, Sight, Size, Sky, Story, Sun, Sung, Sunlight, Taste, Time, Touch, Truth, Understood, Undone, Unspoken, Vampire, Warmth | Leave a comment

Soul Shift – Deplorable

Posted on January 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of a beginning exploration into the dark side possible outcome of mankind’s transition toward half believing we understand the implications of quantum theories. Soul Shift – Deplorable by Michael Romani Father forgive us, we know not what we do … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Biology, Blur, Borders, Boundary, Con, Concern, Connectivity, Control, Cost, Crisis, Dark Side, Dead, Deny, Deplorable., Dreams, Ego, Element, Eternity, Expendable, Explore, Fade Out, Faithful, Flee, Flow, Forgive, Fracture, God, Guess, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Indefensible, Know, Living, Lost, Mankind, Morality, neew, Occur, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Quantum, Relative, Rope, Rumor, Science, Seek, Shift, Simplicity, Soul, Spirituality, Strive, Superlativee, Technology, Theory, Time, Toward, Understand | Leave a comment

Questioning Prayers

Posted on January 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

From time to time, a soul is shaken into questioning things even convictions firmly held. Questioning Prayers by Michael Romani Questioning prayers Questioning the Divine Caught in emotional snares Laid like cerebral landmines Poems to all its owed To dreams … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bend, Bless, Capable, Cause, Cerebral, Divine, Dream, Finite, Fire, Guess, Infinite, Law, Mean, Miracle, Number, Owed, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Question, Slumber, Snare, Sold, Soul | Leave a comment