Tag Archives: Height

Know Not Fear

Posted on March 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Know Not Fearby Michael DoyleYouth always tries to dareTheir elders try to careEach in their own placeStares the other in the faceEach move made creates a snareNo matter how each tries to be fairClimbing to the highest heightTo outpace the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back, Beginning, Blame, Book, Call, Care, Chapter, Cheer, Climb, Dare, Darkness, Done, Each Generation, Elders, Face, Fair, Father, Fault, Fear, Flame, Height, Honor, Knife, Know, Lack, Light, Look, Move, Name, Next Day, Night, No Time, Outpace, Pain, Place, Poetry and Poems, Scream, Shame, Snare, Solitary WAy, Son, Stare, Whisper, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

In the Whisper of Time’s Sands

Posted on February 26, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

In the Whisper of Time’s Sandsby Michael DoyleWe can’t get a lock on the futureWithout knowing our pastWe can’t know what to nurtureIf we don’t know what was once castThe good hunter seeks to rise to the heightAs he sips … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Cacophony, Cast, Choices, Darkness, Falsity, First, Fool, Future, Good Hunter, Height, Knows All, Light, Lock, Nurture, Obstacles, One's Own Man, Open Mind, Past, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Right, Sight, Thirst, Time's Sands, Voices, Water of Life, Whisper, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Are Not Judged By the Height You Have Risen, But From the Depth You Have Climbed

Posted on February 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.” – Frederick Douglass

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Climbed, Depth, Frederick Douglass, Height, Judge, Risen, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Lessons From Eden Park

Posted on May 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Roaring Twenties were a fascinating time. Among the lessons to be learned was that a woman could do and be more than they had been allowed until then, vice and other personal choices could not be controlled and that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Alive, Barrier Breaker, Best, Boardwalk Empire, Boost, Bootleggers, Booze, Brain, Brains, Brawn, Business, Complexity, Conspire, Constrain, Control, Convention, Depiction, Dog Days, Draconian, Dregs, Eden Park, Edge, Fascinating, Fiction, Fire, Freedom of Choice, French Seventy Five, Gangster, George Remus, Glorified, Glory, Gone, Habit, Headlong, Height, History, Ill Spent, Impetus, Invention, John Barley Corn, Lawlessness, Layer, Lessons, Liberating, Libertine, Life, Light, Measure, Men, Mess, Mystery, Necessity, Notoriety, Outlandish, Personal Choice, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prohibition, Relate, Repulsive, Roaring Twenties, Roost, Satisfaction, Second Thought, Shadow, Short, Simplicity, Sip, Society, Soul, Strand, Strife, The Four Swallows, Time and Again, Time Travel, Unholy, Vice, Vise, Whiskey Pirates, Women, World War I | Leave a comment

Death and A Desert God

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A further adventure in Egyptian myth. Death and A Desert God by Michael Doyle Without ambition, Horus would quietly assert That to kill a desert god, you must kill the desert To kill a desert, requires Ra, God of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Ambition, Appetite, Bay, Breath, Chaos, Conceal, Creation, Creator, Cruel, Dark, Death, Decay, Desert, Destiny, Destruction, Dreams, Drown, Edict, Egypt, Embrace, Equal, Fight, Flight, Glory, God, Height, Hell Hounds, Hopes, Horus, Journey, Kill, Light, Lord, Might, Mortal, Night, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quest, Ra, Rot, Scarabs, Set, Shine, Stray, Sun, Uncertain, Water, Will | Leave a comment

Dreams Taken Wing

Posted on December 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Happy National Wright Brothers Day! Dreams Taken Wing by Michael Romani Dreams taken wing In that godlike machine Soaring into heights High above the lights There the Brothers Wright Took their token flight Drifting slightly in elevation High as heavens … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Brothers Wright, Devotion, Dreams, Elevate, Felt, First, Flight, Fly, Future, Gentle, Godlike, Heaven, Height, High, Lights, Machine, Magic, Meditation, National Wright Brothers Day, Ocean, Orville, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Probable, Pure, Pursuit, Sky, Soar, Thirst, Token, Touch, Wing | Leave a comment

Empire State’s Eternity

Posted on April 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I missed Day 24 of the Na/GloPoWriMo 2019. The challenge that day was to pick a reference book and blindly choose something from any given page. Having no reference books currently handy, I turned to Wikipedia. One of today’s featured … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 24 Hours, Alive, American Pride, Art Deco, Bronze, Challenge, Die, Digital, Eighth Wonder of the World, Empire State, Empire State Building, Eternity, Feel, Five Boroughs, Forget, Friend, Glance, Gotham, Height, Homage, Icon, Ill, Impression, Indiana, Industry, Inspire, Legacy, Lightning Rod, Limestone, Lost In the Mist, Manhattan, Midtown, Miss, Motif, Na/GloPoWriMo 2019, New York City, North Tower, Observatory, Panoramic View, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, See, Sky, Skyscraper, Spire, Stairs, Tower, Visual, Wikipedia, World | Leave a comment

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Know Not Fear

In the Whisper of Time’s Sands

Thought For the Day: You Are Not Judged By the Height You Have Risen, But From the Depth You Have Climbed

Lessons From Eden Park

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Dreams Taken Wing

Empire State’s Eternity

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