Tag Archives: Legendary

Kept In A Hillside Perspective

Posted on March 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Kept In A Hillside Perspectiveby Michael DoyleI’ve heard a lot of jokesAbout being close to inbredIt’s the kind of a thingThat rolls around in my headOver and over againPlaying a memory’s allusionAgainst something, I can’t defendAs I have been searching … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allowed, Allusion, Awkward, Believe, Born, Burn, City Folk, Come True, Comfortably Grown, Confusion, Cool, Country Folks, Defend, Discerned, Dreams, Driven, Every Inch, Forgotten, Go Through, Grief Lived, Head, Helps Keep Things In Perspective, Her time, Hillbillies, Hills, Hillside, Hope Given, Hurts, Incendiary, Inisde, Joke, Kept, Learn, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Life, Little Battles of Life, Lived, Lord Wills, Loud and Proud, Make It, Me, Memory, Momma, Mother's Knee, My Momma, Never Lived, Nobody, Only Listen, Other Names, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully, Pre-School, Presence of the Lord, Proud But Few, Quietly Fought In, Read, Reflective, Reminded, Rocky Road, Search, Shames, Sound, Stupid, There, Things Said, This Moment, Told, Unfortunate, Want To, West Virginia | Leave a comment

The Tales Told

Posted on August 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Tales Toldby Michael DoyleThe seventh son of the seventh sonKnows he has no choice but to be the oneWho in accord with ancient prophecyMust rise above to embrace his legacyThe tales told are things quite legendaryPressing him to greatness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient, Beauty, Believer, Blood Moon, Call, Castle, Certainty, City, Confide, Courageous, Dangerous, Dark, Darkness, Dazed, Deep Inside, Destiny, Duty, Evil, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fortune, Fully Phase, Ghost, Good, Greatness, Heart, Holy, Journey, Knight, Learn, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons, Light, Met, Mistaken, Needs, No Choice, Offshore, Photograph, Phrases, Poem, Poetry, Press, Prophecy, Put, Return, Rise Above, Road, Safety, Seventh Son, Shadows, Summoner, Tales, Tales Told, The one, Told, Unleashed, Vanquish, Wall, Warmth of Love, Whisper, Wickedness, Wise, World, Wretched | Leave a comment

Ohio River Driven

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem based on Part I of a scenic drive taken along the Indiana towns along the Ohio River. Part II will be today, probably. 🙂 Ohio River Driven by Michael Doyle Two hour drive to catch a bit of history … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aurora, Beecher Church, Blast, Call Out, Care, Catch, Cemetery, Chasing Circles, Children's Children, Core, Details, Distillery, Drive, Each Age, Feel, Feeling, Fool, Found, Gamble, Give Thanks, Greek Revival, Guide Book, History, Iconoclast, Indiana, Integrity, Leave, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Liberty, Life, Live, Live Ours, Lost, Manage To Survive, Memorial, Misery, Model-T, Moments Taken, Not Fake It, Ohio River, Out of Order, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Prayer, Present, Prosperity, Rising Sun, River Towns, Scenery, Seagram and Sons, Shaken, Small Town, Some Day, Some Gave All, Street, Take A Drive, The Past, Times, Unique, War Dead, What We Make It, Whiskey, Wonder | Leave a comment

Consent of the Governed

Posted on May 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in a series of poems about the establishment of our republican form of government and life under the rule of law as set out in our constitution: Consent of the Governed by Michael Doyle The standards are set by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abject, Ambition, American, Anarchy, Attention, Avoid, Balance of Power, Checks and Balances, Classics, Component, Consent, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Defeat, Deficiencies, Democracy, Detection, Discern, Distribution, Examine, Executive, Extremes, Freedom, Gather, Governed, Government, History, Hour, Human Beings, Imperfection, Improvement, Improvements, Independent Judiciary, Inhibition, Invitation, Just Government, Know, Last, Learn, Legendary, Legislative Representation, Lesson, Liberty, Lose, Mankind, Means, Nation, Nothing New, Old, Order, Past, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political, Power, Powerful, Publius, Representation, Republican, Republican Government, Rights, Rule of Law, Science of Government, Seat, Self Government, Series, Slavery, Society, Standards, Subject, Table, Tension, The People, Told, Transcendence, Truth, Tyranny, Unalienable, Unchecked Power, Vacillation, Vote, Work | Leave a comment

The Way of Swords

Posted on April 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A warrior knows the ways of war. It’s that fighting soul so often missing in these times. The Way of Swords by Michael Doyle The way of swords Knows its own destiny Like an apple sliced and cored It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apple, Battlefield, Bone, Brave, Brief, Chance, Death, Destiny, Doubt, Fear, Fight, Forget, Forsaken, God's Will, History, King, Legendary, Live, Moment, Own, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pull, Regret, Savage, Soul, Swords, Tale, Thrall, Victory, Warrior, Way, Ways of War, Whittle | Leave a comment

The Great Not So Great Society

Posted on April 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency: The Great Not So Great Society by Michael Doyle LBJ entered his presidency aiming to be legendary Setting his sights on ending poverty through Great Society Johnson aimed to do this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affluence, Anti-War, Anxiety, Assassination, Black Vote, Blank Check, Bleed Out, Bobby Kennedy, Civil Rights, Conflict, Conservative, Counter-Culture, Disaffection, DMZ, Doctrine of Limited War, Domino Theory, Draft, Echo, Eisenshower, Emptiness, Ethics, Flaw, Fought, Franchisement, Gap, Government, Great Society, Hubert Humphry, Inadequacy, LBJ, Legendary, Legislation, Limitation, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr, Master, Materialism, Medicare, MLK, Nation, Nights, Nihilism, Nominee, Peace With Honor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Presidency, Promise, Question, Quiver, Radical Movements, Real Time, Repudiation, Result, Return, Richard Nixon, Riots, Role, Skepticism, Soldiers, Southeast Asia, Substiution, Television, Tonkin Bay Resolution, Torpedo, Up Close and Personal, Urban, Victory, Vietnam, Violence, Watts, Welfare, Wilderness | Leave a comment

On the Losing Side of History

Posted on March 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A piece dedicated to the ending days of Bernie Sanders’ attempt to hold a revolution. It begs the question, “What if they gave a revolution and nobody came?”. On the Losing Side of History by Michael Doyle Sanders lumbers on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Amercian Dream, Baloney, Base, Beliefs, Bernie Sanders, Brilliance, Champion, Character, Class, Cling, Constitution, Criticism, Defer, Democratic Party, Discredit, Double Talk, Elite, Emperor, Enlighten, Factional Infighting, Fantasy, Followers, Gender, God, Guns, Hillary Clinton, History, Identity Politics, Ideology, Inspire, Intolerance, Iran, Ivory Tower, Know, Lead, Legendary, Losing Side, Masculine Toxicity, Merit, Nation, Optimism, Peek, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Practical, President Trump, Revolution, Rubbish, Seams, Socialist, Speak, Steeple, Sympathy, The Left, The People, Theory, Threadbare, Toxic, Twisted, Walk, Woke | Leave a comment

I’m Sure You’d Say

Posted on March 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Did you ever have special friends that you daydreamed aloud with a kid? What were you going to be when you grew up? I mean besides older… I’m Sure You’d Say by Michael Romani Childhood’s dreams into imaginary We set … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actress, Brain, Call, Dance, Daydream, Dreams, Fighting Hard, Friends, Grain, Hands, Hold, Human Being, Imaginary, Kid, Late Night Talk, Laugh, Legendary, Locked Away, Morning Light, Music, Night, Ordinary, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Popcorn, Say, Screen, Sing, Smile, Song, Special, Walk, Wall, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Looking At You, Looking At Me

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

More of a song than a poem though it’s missing an effective chorus maybe? Looking At You, Looking At Me by Michael Romani I’m looking at you You’re looking at me I’m dreaming of you And what we might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Body, Call, Comfort, Dance, Dream, Embrace, Grace, Legendary, Lips, Looking, Love, Lyric, Me, Melt, Might, Photograph, Place, Poems, Poetry, Romance, Seams, Shadow, Sing, Slow, Song, Taste, Think, Touch, True, Wall, You | Leave a comment

The Wolf of God

Posted on November 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Cursed bane or blessing… am I alone in sometimes wondering which is which when it comes to watching the tortured souls and their travails that often make for those who and what entertain us most? The Wolf of God by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Back, Bane, Belong, Blessing, Blind, Darkness, Deep, Destiny, Extreme, Face, Fatigue, Forgiven, Friend, Gift, God, Harsheness, Ingratitude, Intrigue, Keep, Kind, Latitude, Legendary, Love, Mirrors, Paths, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Question, Second Sight, Shapes, Sharp, Side, Sincere, Supply, Thankfulness, Time, Tortured Soul, Treasure, Truth, Walk, Wolf, Wolf of God, Wrong | Leave a comment