Tag Archives: Memory

Thoughts On Dorian Gray

Posted on October 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading →

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Thrown Away

Posted on September 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

word prompt is Away Thrown Awayby Michael Doyle Times like these are seasonableWhen life itself feels unreasonableWhat I had wanted to be for the betterSomehow fell apart when together Now it seems taking life day by dayAlone with the feelings … Continue reading →

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Waters Felt As Wild

Posted on July 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Waters Felt As Wildby Michael DoyleLooking to the commons differentlyWe sip at the waters reverentlyWith willows and elms along the banksAs a praying man, I stop to give thanksNo matter how much we pollute the watersTheir resilience slips back dreamilyAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adolescent, Banks, Camelot, Days, Days Gone By, Differently, Dreamily, Dusk, Elms, Friends, Give Thanks, Guilty, I Let Go, Idles, Ignorant, Insanity, Lost Lore, Memory, Might Have Been More, Once Again, One Word, Past, Poetry and Poems, Policeman's Blotter, Pollute, Praying Man, Pristine, Rainforest, Resilience, Restorative, Reverently, Sins, Sip, Soul, Sunlight, The Commons, Think, Thinking, Today, Undertow, Unseemly, Vanity, Waters, Wild, Wished Against Hope, Yearn, Yesterday, You and I, Youth | Leave a comment

In the Bard’s Memory

Posted on July 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Bard’s Memoryby Michael DoyleThere is something in elevated speechThat touches the depths of our soulsKeeping these words close within reachIs truly something worthy to extolIt’s something far greater than fallacyTo believe that words and phrases hold powerI say … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bard's Memory, Blessings, Eclipse, Elevated Speech, Fallacy, Gracefully Forgiven, Greater, Holy Bible, Implore, Keeping These Words, Memorable Passages, Memory, Mortal, On the Shelf, Openly, Poetry and Poems, Power, Precepts, Sacred Place, Shakespeare, The Bard, Touch, Utterances, Without Jealousy, Words, Words and Phrases, Worthy, Woven | Leave a comment

In the Hateful Wastefulness of Mediocrity

Posted on May 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Hateful Wastefulness of Mediocrityby Michael DoyleIs it as it seems some kind of conspiracyThis hateful wastefulness of mediocrityClearly, I am not genius quite enoughFor I, in my simplicity, to hazard a bluffThat human nature is an understandingI hold … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Awkward, Bard's Legacy, Bared, Bluff, Blur, Bonds of Faith, Born, Call, Chances, Chased Around, Child's Test, Clear, Commanding, Conspiracy, Dance, Dawn's Breaking, Deep In the Soul, Denmark, Derision, Doom, Dressed Two Steps Up, Edges of Kingdoms, Elevated Parts, Embrace, Empty Heart, Fall Out, Family, Feigned Fidelity, Figments, Ghost, Giving Everyone Our Ear, Green-Eyed Beast of Jealousy, Hateful, Human Nature, Human Speech, Just Within Reach, Laertes, Laid to Rest, Life's Aching, Mediocrity, Memory, Mocking Innocence, Name of the Nation, Naught, Not Genius, Own Choice, Pain of the Guilty, Pale Shades, Paris, Passage Through Life, Passionate Hearts, Past Avenged, Phrases, Piece of Work, Poetry and Poems, Present Myself, Protests, Reality of the Man, Regard, Shakespeare, Short Work, Silent, Simplicity, Softly Profound, Sorrow's Humility, Stirring, Suspicion, The Man, Torments, Truths of the Soul, Understanding, Vengeage, Wander, Wastefulness, Ways of Mankind, Wicked Imagination, Yet To Be | Leave a comment

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 →

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Thought For the Day: Sometimes You Will Never Know the Value of A Moment Until It Becomes A Memory

Posted on March 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Becomes, Dr. Seuss, Memory, Moment, Never Know, Sometimes, Thought For the Day, Until, Value | Leave a comment

In Getting To Good Days

Posted on November 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In Getting To Good Daysby Michael DoyleTaken then in the reflectiveLife is seen in its proper perspectiveWe Find many reasons for gratitudeAnd rightly live with that attitudeNo longer wearing that intended greedBut in realization that God gives what we needIt’s … Continue reading →

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Voices Cry

Posted on July 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Watched a bit of a show that reminded me of the folks out there who suffer from PTSD. From that I got this: Voices Cry by Michael Doyle The voices crying into the night Its hard to take this light … Continue reading →

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In A Freeze of Time

Posted on June 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something about taking other people’s photographs: In A Freeze of Time by Michael Doyle A still photograph freezes time Offering its momentary relationship sublime Lasting memories never to be taken back A single shot at stopping time in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of the Best Moments, Always Forever, Best Variety, Blur, Capture, Catch, Clean, Create, Curious, Dance of Life, Days, Family, Feeze, Give, Goes On and On, Gone, Habit, Holidays, Human Lives, Iconic, Iintimate, Lasting Memory, Life, Life Passing By, Loved Ones, Memory, Messy, Momentary, Moments, Occur, Offer, Pets, Photograph, Photographs, Pictured, Poem, Poetry, Reality, Relationship, Relationships, Remind, Right Scene, Single Shot, Snapshots, Something There, Sometimes, Special Occasions, Special Ways, Still Photograph, Stop Time, Suddenly, Taken Back, The People, Tidy, Time, Times, Tracks, Ways, Worship, Worthy | Leave a comment