Tag Archives: Memory

Christmas Island Memory

Posted on December 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Christmas Island Memoryby Michael DoyleEven Christmas Island has its rulesThough they’re not type you learn in schoolsBut the types that build useful toolsThe type needed by wise men, common folk, and foolsOne of these is to drop the guessingAccepting each … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Begin, Blessing, Christmas Island, Common Folk, Days, Each Moment, End, Fools, Guessing, Know, Learn, Lesson, Life, Memory, Poetry and Poems, Push and Pull, Rules, School, Special Way, Tools, Ways, Wise Men | Leave a comment

Gifts On this Morn

Posted on December 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Gifts On This Mornby Michael DoyleIt’s just how it is since we were bornWe await the superficial gifts of this mornExcited eyes search around the Christmas treeWondering what presents are for you and meThen when all the gifts have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Born, Carolers, Change, Cheer, Christmas Tree, Chrstmas, Digital, Excited Eyes, Family, Family Table, Find, Found, Fun, Garland, Gifts, Go Outside and Play, Hide, Innocence, Memory, Moonlight, Morn, Mourning Yesterday, Our Children, Outside, Parents, Poetry and Poems, Screens, Sun, Supper, Tinsel, Toys, Undone, Wonder | Leave a comment

Like Flowers In A Vase

Posted on November 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words | Leave a comment

What She Doesn’t Know Yet

Posted on November 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What She Doesn’t Know Yetby Michael DoyleListening to my daughters proudlyAs they talk a bit too loudlyEach holding her own in conversationEach of them has their own ambitionsMy babies have grown up without regretBut I wish each would kindly not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambition, Angel-Shine, Apart, Babies, Beautiful, Behind, Blessing, Blossom and Grow, Borrowed Time, Childhoods, Choke Back A Tear, Conversation, Daughters, Depart, Done Well, Earth, Empty-Nesting, Falling Stars, Family, Far Above, Father, Father's Mind, Forget, Heart, Heartbreaks, Holding Her Own, Hope, Irrevocable Mistakes, Know, Last Breath, Lean, Lessons, Listen, Lost Love, Loud, Love, Lullabies, Memory, Miss, Most Wonderful, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Reflection, Regret, Remember, Same Love, She, Slow, Smile, Start, Talk, Thankful, Their Eyes, Their Love, These Girls, To the top, Warmest Connection, Watch, Well-Earned | Leave a comment

Remembering Prince

Posted on November 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering Princeby Michael DoyleI remember listening to a nightingale singSomewhere in Europe and just about springAnd thinking about things dismissed in hasteA lot of which was only my imagined wasteOne of these was Prince, dead at fifty-sevenDid find his way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America Singing, Argue, Blind, Dark Side, Decay, Deep Discography, Delay, Diminutive, Dirty-Minded Minstrel, Dismiss, Europe, Eyebrow, Eyes, Feedback, Fifty-Seven, Forgotten, Freedom, Funky Treasure, Grief, Harm, Haste, Heaven, Hum, Life, Loaded Dice, Lost Culture, Love, Measure, Melody, Memories, Memory, Minor Gods, Mourning Doves, Music, Musical Genres, Nightingale, Pain, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Price, Prince, Pulse, Purple Rain, Rain, Remember, Reverence, Reverie, Rock-n-Roll, Shape of One, Soft Voice, Somehow, Something From Nothing, Soul, Sound, Spring, Strong Spirit, Surprise, The Purple One, Time, Transcend, Trtuh, Waste, Wicked Charm, Wisdom, Writing | Leave a comment

Wondering About My Errors

Posted on November 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Wondering About My Errorsby Michael DoyleI have been looking in the mirrorRevisiting all my errorsI have been thinking about the pastAll the beliefs that didn’t lastThe Devil visits my mindShowing ruins that I left behindBurning bridges to yesterdayIt seems so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Babylon, Belief, Belligerent Youth, Burning Bridges, Castaway, Devil, Different Light, Done, Dreaming, Drift Away, Emotional Targets, Error, Errors, Fortune, Frontiers, Identity, LandMines, Living Life, Long Way, Lost Child, Love, Me, Memory, Mirror, Moments, Music, No Man's Land, Ocean Away, Past, Poems, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Punchline, Ramble On, Ruins, Sheltering Sky, Sleep, Species, Tears, Truth, Weep, Why, Wonder, Writing, Yesterday | Leave a comment

It Hardly Counted

Posted on October 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

It Hardly Counted by Michael DoyleIn all my time in the dreadful warI felt certain of something moreA lot of horrible things occurredLooking back they’ve all blurredThese horrors handled with graceAre the worst, most of us faceTo know that man’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amount, Blur, Certain, Conflict, Cost, Count, Desipte, Die, Effort, Empty Hero, Endure, Eyes, Face, Feeling, Friends, Grace, Hell, Horror, Hurt Full, In the End, Inflict, Less Than Zero, Lifetime, Man's Inhumanity To Man, Memory, Mirror, More, Needed, Occur, Others, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rhyme, Shell, Time, Trouble, Truth, War, Why | Leave a comment

The Memory Is Bittersweet

Posted on October 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Memory Is Bittersweetby Michael DoyleI wish I could erase the darkness I have feltThat somehow, some way, I could escape the hand dealtAll the good and the bad that makes us who we areLeaves me wishing forlorn on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apparitions, Bittersweet, Breaks Your Heart, Darkness, Dealt, Defeat, Echoes, Erase, Family, Fear, Felt, Ghosts, Good and the Bad, Life, Living Dead, Love, Memories, Memory, Past, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Sanity, Tears You Apart | Leave a comment

I Bought You A Necklace

Posted on September 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I Bought You A Necklaceby Michael DoyleIn love since the beginningI can’t help but feel I’m winningIt’s so surreal in what I findA love like this is my state of mindIt’s all about thinking that I canYour love makes me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Altar, Beads, Beginning, Best Friend, Better Man, Blessed, Celebration, Commit, Day One, Embrace, Exactly, Falter, Family, Fascination, Feel, Find, Forgiven, Given, God, Gorgeous, Life, Lifetime, Love, Marry Me, Memory, Must, Necklace, One Day, Place, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Remember Me, Reverie, State of Mind, Surreal, Thinking, Trust, Truth Lived, Vows, Whisper, Wife, Winning, Wrongs | Leave a comment

Clown Suits Leapfrog To Stolen Policies

Posted on August 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Clown Suits Leapfrog To Stolen Policesby Michael DoyleI’ve almost never been prone toward snipeEven regarding Comrade Kamala’s media hypeAdmittedly, it could be an amusing pursuitTo discuss a career begun playing a curious fluteNow she’s playing with a basket of populismOpenly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Basket of Populism, Both Sides, Career, Clown Suit, Communist Collective, Comrade Kamala Harris, Convention Floor, Deference, Dismal Times, DNC, Economic, Economic Perspective, Flip the Script, Flute, Focus, Forgot, Healthy, Humanity, Hyporcisy, Ignore, Incriminating Experience, Integral, Joe Biden, Kamala Buzz, Leap Frog, Masses, Media Hype, Memory, Monetary Gains, Mystery, Never Worked, Optimism, Oraters, Pattern, Poetry and Poems, Prroud, Purposes, Pursuit, Re-Written History, Self-Celebration, Services, Sideshow, Six Years, Skeptical Mind, Skin Suit, Snipe, Steal, Stolen Policies, Thrust, Trivial Pursuit, Trump, Trust, Wealthy, Who Did What | Leave a comment