Tag Archives: Imagery

The Shaman’s Missing Chord

Posted on May 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Shaman’s Missing Chordby Michael DoyleThe struggle for life’s force,The mystery in seeking its source,Blazed as Morrison’s eyes glow.On what side would we learn to know.It’s easier to scare an audience,Portraying the figure of scorn and diffidence.Twirling into a dance … Continue reading →

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Danza Pieta

Posted on October 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Danza Pieta by Michael DoyleNoisome crypts jangle the bones of innocenceWhere evil lingers knowing no pretenseOrgan music begins to play in its tonal rangeSomething wicked and something strangeParanoia, whispered fears, and shades of doubtEcho like unfriendly notes raised into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Black Death, Bones, Cause, Crypt, Danza Pieta, Death, Echo, Evil, Fragility, Imagery, Innocence, Insensibility, Memento Mori, Momento Mori, Organ Music, Paramoia, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Sacred, Sensuality, Stoicism, Terror, Tonal Range, Unfriendly Notes, Vain, Wicked | Leave a comment

The Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela

Posted on May 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibelaby Michael DoylePeople tend to adopt the way of othersThey suit their own cultures to another’sAnd as people seek commonality with each otherThey also signify differences with one anotherIn Ethiopia’s highlands, we find many depictionsOf … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Africa, Angels, Arc of the Convenant, Bible, Black Jesus, Building, Common, Complexity, Conversion, Culture, Dead, Differences, Dignity, Diversity, Ethiiopia, ethiopia, Excavation, Explanation, Ezana Stone, God, God's Glory, Ground, Highland, History, Human Heart, Human Story, Imagery, Inconic, Jesus, Lalibela, Layers of Complexity, Lucy, Memories, Monoliths, Mysterry, Orthocox, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Relationship, Revealing, Rock Hewn Churches, Sacred, Sacred FAce, Simplicity, St Mary of Zion, Steles, Testament, The Leakeys, The Nine Saints, Throne, Travel, UNESCO, Wonder, Worship | Leave a comment

Sea Fire

Posted on February 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Sea Fireby Michael DoyleI brush the strands of your long hairIt is as soft as the finest silkI can feel it as you stand thereAnd we talk about the seas white as milkAs our ship passes through deep blue waterStanding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1985, Airglow, Bacteria, Barriers, Beauty, Bioluminescence, Changes, Chemistry, Circular Dances, Cloud, Dance, Darkness, Daughter, Deep Blue Water, Degree, Diffusion, Dim, Disruption, Dread, Earth, Edges, Encroach, Eternity, Explore, Face of Nature, Father, Fed, Firmament, Glare, Glow, Harshness, Haunted Places, Hoirzon, Imagery, Imagination, Impossible, Infinitely Closer, Instrument, Interruption, Know, Learn, Living Light, Long Hair, Luminescent White, Mankind, Milk, Mix, Mysteries, Night, Ocean, Ocean Floors, Patches, Permanent, Phantom, Plethora, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Sail, Sea Fire, Sea Snow, Seas, Sense, Ship, Shore, Sight, Silk, Space, Stand, Strands, Supersititious, Swim, Tall Tales, Traces, Veil of Light, White | Leave a comment

To Find Peace

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

So many movies and books predict nothing but darkness and gloom in our future. Maybe that’s easy enough to understand with the fact that we so often seek force rather than reason to overcome past and present hurts. But, maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Annihilation, Better, Beyond, Books, Bring, Dark, Darkness, Death, Desolation, Devastation, Down, Find, Find Our Way, Force, Forgiveness, Future, Gloom, Healing, Hope, Imagery, Key, Loss, Metaphor, Minds, Morning's First Light, Movies, Nakedness, Nation, Nations, New Day, Night, Once We Do, Only, Our, Overcome, Path, Peace, Photograph, Pithy Words, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Prevent, Quicker, Reason, Reconciliation, Regrets, Release, Rolls Out, Ruin, Said, Selves, Set, Shelf, Sting, Stretch, Suffer, Toppled, Understand, Undoing, Victory, War, We, Whittled, World | Leave a comment

Engulfed In A Church of Transition

Posted on July 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Claude De Bussy’s music started a tonal revolution that brought with it an entirely different way of looking at music. It’s simply amazing in its tonal fluidity and how it transformed art music. Debussy’s Engulfed Cathedral: Engulfed In A … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Aloft, Articulated, Articulation, Audibly, Balance, Beauty, Blurred Edges, Church, Claude De Bussey, Cold Death, Color, Construct, Control, Cultural Taste, Dawn, Delight, Edges, Embrace, Engulf, Engulfed Cathedral, Fluidity, Form, French, French Language, Gentleness, German, Grace, Harmony, Haste, Heard, Imagery, Impressionist, Just Another Pretty Face, Language, Light, Long, Look Deep, Lush, Mandate, Melody, Microcosm, Modernism, Music, Musical Action, New Breath, Nuances, Open Composition, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Soul, Poetry, Revolution, Revolutionary, Satisfaction, Sensation, Sense, Sensual, Shape, Shelf, Shifting Patterns, Shine, Sound, Subtle, Subtlety, Suspended, Symbolic Poetry, The Faun, Timber, Tonal, Tone Colors, Transition, Transparency, Visual Fluidity, Whole Tone, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Lensed Path of Clarity

Posted on June 29, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Lensed Path of Clarity by Michael Romani There is a path from the beginning A wonderment that is never ending From the pain of scale to fenestration Laying bare our deepest penetration It’s a creation of fine majesty Dressed up … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories, Poetry and Poems, Second Life | Tagged Clarity, Imagery, Lense, Path, Photographer, Photos, Poet, Second Life, Simplicity | Leave a comment

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