Tag Archives: Guitar

Poinsettia Day 2023

Posted on December 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2023, Abovee, Accept, Afrar, Angels, Aware, Borrow, Breakdown, Breathe, Bring, Christmas Tale, David, Death, December, Do My Best, Eyes, Family, Filled, First Noel, Flower, Forgiving, Fullness, Gift, Giving, Guitar, Hard, Healing Light, Heart, Heavens, Him, Important, Know, Laughter, Life, Lived, Love, Midnight, Moments, My Life, News, Openly Weep, Plucking Notes, Poetry and Poems, Poinsettia Day, Possession, Procession, Quiet, Remember, Resentment, Reserved, Reveal, Sad, Sad Day, Shepherd, Shining Bright, Sing, Smile, Sorrow, Star, Story, Turn Out Right, Undesvered, Up Close, Wise, Wish, Words | Leave a comment

In the I-IV-VII

Posted on June 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the II IV VIIby Michael Doyle In the I IV VIII just might playMy way to blues heavenBut I wouldn’t want to really say. It’s just another moment in this dayTroubles found and troubles goneNo real matter to how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belongs, Blues, Blues Heaven, Chill, Circles, Crossroads, Crowd, Cry and Play, Curved, Day, Dig In Deep, Drawn, Etch, Every Day, Fall, Feeling, Find, Fogot, Found, Gone, Groove, Guitar, I-IV-VII, Incendiary, Living Life, Lost Mind, Loud, Memory, Mind, Moment, Night, Note, One Too Many, Play, Poetry and Poems, Question, Real Matter, Right, Room, Say, Sing, Sliding Tones, Slow Roll, Song, Soul, Sting, Strings, Tomorrow, Troubles, Tumbling Dice | Leave a comment

While They Break Our Hearts

Posted on April 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

While They Break Our Heartsby Michael DoyleLife is full of imprecisionsToo many mistakesAnd too many bad decisionsRomances gone wrongNever knowing where one belongsJust another round of heartbreak songsStaying up late to catch a breakSome things can’t be fakeWhile they break … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Kiss, Bad Decisions, Belong, Best Swing, Break Our Hearts, Burn, Burn Slow, California Sands, Catch A Break, Certain, Dance, Dream, Dreams, Every Night, Eyes Sparkle, Fake, False Start, Find Ourselves, Fire Pit Embers, Forgot, Full Moon Fever, Gone Wrong, Guitar, Hands, Heartbreak Songs, Holding You Tight, Huntington Beach Girl, Imprecisions, Keep You, Know, Life, Lose Ourselves, Love At First Sight, Magic, Miss, Mistakes, Never Let You Go, Night, Pardon, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pretty Ballerina, Rarely Right, Romances, Sands, Senorita, Sight, Slipped Through Our Hands, Slow, Staying Up Late, Sure As We Are, Sure Chance, Times, True, Walk, Watch | Leave a comment

Finally Stilled

Posted on November 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Finally Stilledby Michael DoyleWe dance our danceWhispering our romanceUnder the Milky WayFinding tomorrow every dayIn every touch that we shareFinding truth revealed in careKnowing loneliness in our absenceFinding need for each other’s presenceSome say love is a form of weaknessThey … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Absurd Fools, All Doubt, Allow, Beginning, Belong, Beside me, Care, Certainty, Dance, Dreams, End, Every Day, Final, Finally, For Each Other, Guitar, Loneliness, Loud, Love, Milky Way, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Quietness, Reveal, Romance, Share, Song, Speak This, Stars, Still, Strong, Tomorrow, Touch, Truth, We, Weakness, Whisper, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Story Book Connection

Posted on October 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Story Book Connectionby Michael DoyleWe met in a moment of quiet conversationOur talking led to smiles without hesitationAnd with every further touch I now findYou are the one that will never be left behindTo me there never really was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Beauty, Born, Busy, Child, Connection, Dream, Feeling, Feelings, God, Guitar, Happiness, Heart, Heitation, Hesitation, Joy, Magic, Met, Never Left Behind, Photogrpah, Poem, Poetry, Question, Quiet Conversation, Reveal, Sharing, Show, Smiles, Song, Story Book, Talking, The one, Time, Today, Token of My Affection, Tomorrow, Touch, Touching You, True Loe, Twice, Week, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Our Partnership 09032020

Posted on September 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Our Partnership 09032020by Michael DoyleSmiles into your sleeping dreamWaking into our tomorrow’s sceneThe unseen director calls for actionAll moves and words lead to satisfactionKnowing that your heart holds mineWhile mine holds a bit of your sunshineIt’s a beautiful … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 09032020, Action, All You Truly Are, Beautitful Thing, Best of All, Bold, Breath, Bright, Bring, Day, Desire, Director, Dream, Fade, Goodness, Gratitude, Guitar, Hanging Star, Happy, Heart, Holds, Inspire, Keeping, Know, Mine, Moon, Moves, My Life, Night, Partnership, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sacred, Safe, Satisfaction, Shining, Sing, Sleep, Sleeping, Smiles, Spark, Sparkling, Sunshine, Thoughts, To Have and To Hold, Tomorrow, Wake, Warm, Watch, Words, Yes, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Sacred Questions

Posted on June 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How do we have the courage to ask the questions that must be asked? We just do.. maybe? Sacred Questions by Michael Doyle Searching for the courage needed Listening to the inner voices, I’ve pleaded To the one that asks … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amidst, Answers, Approach, Ask, Battered, Begun, Clear, Complicate, Courage, Deference, Demand, Dent, Destiny, Dream, Experience, Eyes, Glorious, Guitar, Hesitation, Holy Kingdom, Identify, Inner Voice, Intention, Journey, Life, Listen, Lost, Meaning, Mind, Outrun, Patience, Philosophy, Photograph, Plain, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Quality, Quantum Field, Question, Questions, Rectify, Room, Sacred, Secret, Seek, Seem, Seldom, Shatter, Task, They, Time, Transformation, Transmission, Truth, Unknown, Wise, Youth | Leave a comment

Remonstration

Posted on April 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The 28th Day of Na/GloPoWriMo asks for optional prompt of recalling our favorite bedrooms in the manner of our choosing. Mostly what I remember growing up shouldn’t be. Remonstration by Michael Doyle Looking back without much remonstration I recall how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Barren Walls, Beauty, Better, Bookends, Books, Community, Confined, Consistent, Derelction, Destination, Dust, Duty, Enrich, Family, Fill, Forts, Friends, Globe, Grow, Guitar, Human Beings, Imagination, Improve, Inspection, Kids, Lives, Long, Looking Back, Loud, Loved, Marks, Military Brat, Music, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nation, Natural, On-Base Housing, Outside, Photograph, Plain, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quarter, Remonstration, Retreat, Room, Same, Scuffles, Seen, Sentient, Songs, Spartan, Tape, Tidy, Together, Truth, Wall, Way, Week, White Gloves, World, Years | Leave a comment

Sweater Weather Dues

Posted on December 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Originally meant for December 20th, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! Sweater Weather Dues by Michael Romani Tell me now Was it just a trick of the light That led me somehow To see things differently that night They tell me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticiption, Better, Celebration, Convention, Cross, Destiny, Dream, Dues, Eyes, Fit, Gone, Guitar, Happiness, Holiday, Joy, Judgment, Knit, Melody, Menaing, Mood, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 2019, Neck, Nervous Wreck, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rudolph, See, Smile, Soul, Strings, Surprise, Sweater, Tacky, Touch, Tradtiion, Trick of the Light, Weather | Leave a comment

Razor’s Edge

Posted on July 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Another poem from another life lived an lifetime ago about who I was then and wondering how it is that I managed to turn things around maybe for the better. At least, I like to think so? This one is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Alone, Annihilation, Beg, Bright Light, Chorus, Crowd, Die, Double Down, Drink, Fade To Black, Grime, Guitar, Heart, Kicks, Licks, Live, Long Haul, Look, Madness, Memories, Moonlight, Music, Night, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Razor, Ride, Rock, Rock N Roll, Rumble, Show, Spotlight, Star, Survive, Sweat, Think, Thrash, Thunder, Toast, Toss, Tough, Violation | Leave a comment