Tag Archives: Magic

First Kiss

Posted on February 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

First Kissby Michael DoyleRemembering back on the magicFound waiting for the first kissThat led to heartbreak, something tragicBut that moment felt like blissThat moment, for the moment, felt like blissThing back on the magicFound in waiting for the first touchThat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Begun, Bliss, Cherry Taste, Done, Feeling, First Touch, Flair, Grasp, Happiness, Heartbreak, Hips, Lips, Magic, Moment, Night's Air, Poetry and Poems, Reeling, Remember, Sadness, Seal, Surprise, Thrill, Tragic, Veil, Wait | Leave a comment

The Christmas That Was Tragic

Posted on December 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Christmas That Was Tragicby Michael Doyle This Sunday, Christmas, is a bit tragicWhen we’ve stopped believing in magicWe call it adulting but it’s really notIt’s just the goodness we’ve simply forgot Take a deep breath, and try to believeIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adulting, Believe, Cheer, Children, Christmas, Conceive, Cynics, Deep Breath, Disappear, Doubt, Elves, Forgot, Forgot It, Gnomes, Goodness, Got It, Homes, Joy, Lie, Light, Magic, Merry Christmas, Naughtiness, Night, PC World, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Sunday, Tragic, World | Leave a comment

Jack’s Winter Glory

Posted on December 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Jack’s Winter Gloryby Michael DoyleOnce upon a winter’s snowflakeThere was a Christmas wish to makeThere in that distant time and placeThere was magic for all to embraceAs tyranny suppressed simple peasantsUntil they could not afford Christmas presentsThe czar took every … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Bells, Between the Mountains, Breeze, Christmas Wish, Countryside, Czar, Daydreams, Fountains, Fraction, Ground, Jack Frost, Magic, Mind, Nation, One of A Kind, Peasant, Please, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Seams, Smiles, Snow, Snowflake, Snowstorms, Survive, Time and Place, Truth, Warm, Winter Glory, Wonderland, Worst of Times | Leave a comment

Circling Around Symmetry

Posted on July 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Circling Around Symmetryby Michael DoyleLike a wanderer of lost momentsI find myself with ghosts in memoryCircling around the tormentsTo sharpened to find the symmetry Needed to find balance in the crawl outIn the long kiss good night In a gathering … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Balance, Balloon, Capability, Circling Around, Community, Conversations, Counting, Covers Blown, Deep Truths, Depth, Engage, First Contact, Gathering of Kings, Ghosts, Good Night, Grown, Improvisation, Innocent, Islolation, Lessons, Lost Moments, Magic, Memory, Minor Moment, Overheard, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reality, Repressed Emotions, Seek, Sharp, Sincerity, Siren's Calling, Steps, Strain of Cynicism, Strained Torment, Symmetry, Tension, Torment, Touch, Vulnerability, Wanderer, Wish, World | Leave a comment

Looking For Words

Posted on May 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Looking For Wordsby Michael DoyleI see you looking for wordsBut more than the wordsYou want to read the actionsThat bleed like a rose with satisfactionMaking a difference, plain to seeTo live, love, and dream is to beOne with this universal … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accommodate, Actions, Angels, Bleed, Charm, Clarity, Comfortable, Connect, Difference, Distances, Dream, Dreams, Feeling, Friendship, Infinite Role, Life, Live, Looking, Looking For Words, Love, Magic, More Than, Place, Plain To See, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Moments, Read, Rose, Satisfaction, Seams, Seeing, Shared Joy, Sincereity, Sinking, Souls, Spaces, Sparks, Tears, Thinking, Treasure, True Hearts, Truth of the Matter, Universal Soul, Years | Leave a comment

Short Form Poetry Workshop: Zejel Duel of Recitation

Posted on May 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

As is known, from time to time, I attend a long running short form poetry workshop. I went back there tonight and learned of a poetic form called the Zejel. What is a Zejel? • Spanish poetic form likely an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged ACcompany, Beauty, Belong, Doubt, Drunkard, Duel, Flow, JoinIn, Lebanese, Lout, Magic, Means, Metric, Midsong, Poetic Duel, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Proper Poetry, Quatrain, Recitation, Rendition, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Sing, Song, Stanza, Tambourine, Tercet, The People, Troubadour, Two Poets, Zejel | Leave a comment

A Silent Genesis

Posted on May 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Silent Genesisby Michael DoyleMy new obsessionHas a silent genesisIn the maelstromOf ghosts and typhoonsBeyond our bodiesWe rest in eupnea Pure reason’s revolutionFlies on the wings of a dead butterflyLost in the fathoms Between the hammer and anvilIs the dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambassadors, Apprentices, Believers, Between, Beyond, Bodies, Butterfly, Color, Dark Third, Eupnea, Fathoms, Genesis, Ghosts, Hammer and Anvil, Maelstrom, Magic, Morning, Obsession, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pure Reason, Revolution, Silent, Stronger, Survive, Typhoons, Universe, Void, Willows, Wings, World | 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

The Paths Ahead

Posted on January 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Paths Aheadby Pure Love and Michael Romani So many roads yet to be takenSo many choices yet to be givenThe path stretches out beforeWith life yet for us to explore There is a magic in the moreWhen we open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead, Believe, Bliss, Choices, Days, Door, Dream, Explore, Fear, Future, Given, Happiness, Holding On, Hope, Imagination, Life, Live, Love and Care, Magic, Melody, Moments, Open, Paths, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Roads, See, Share, Smiles, Songs, Stream, Stretch, Sun, Taken, Ways | Leave a comment

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax

Posted on January 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Loraxby Michael DoyleHats off to Betty WhiteWho although not always rightDid voice for the Sneedville treesAnd against polluting factoriesThere’s something for the glitz that’s not forgotThe importance of trees over parking lotsBeauty there is to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accrued, Advertise, Appear, Beauty, Best of Answers, Best Way, Betty White, Borne, Boulder, Buy, Capability, Careful, Changes, Dedicate, Edges, Escape, Factories, Felling of Trees, Forests, Forgot, Found, Freed, Freedom, Fringes, Glitz, Good, Greed, Ground, Guardian, Gullible, Heard, Human Soul, Listen, Live and Breath, Locks, Lorax, Love of Truth, Magic, Mankind, Miracle, Mistakes, Music, Nature, Note, Parking Lots, Play, Please, Poetry and Poems, Pollution, Pre-Boxed, Quiet, Remember, Responsibility, Rhyme, Riff, Right, Seems, Sneedville, Soil, Souls, Special Someone, Time, Town, Trees, True, Understood, Wisdom | Leave a comment