Tag Archives: Miles

Dancing Shoes

Posted on December 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Dancing Shoesby Michael DoyleChristmas brings back faded memories,Mostly of how we love our family.The thing is that most of mine are dead,And still there is what needs to be said.I gather myself by the gravestone,Self-aware that I’m on my own.Thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibis, Ballerinas, Christmas, Cows, Dancing Shoes, Explore, Fade Memories, Family, Gravestone, Life, Love, Miles, My Life, Open Road, Poetry and Poems, Self-Aware, Slips By, Smiles, Tiny Miracles, Truth, Ultrasound, Writing | Leave a comment

Normatives Shown

Posted on October 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Normatives Shownby Michael DoyleAddressing bits of truth,In this age of managed publicity,Has since my youthBeen a matter of building a legacy.Thinking on one’s feetOn the slip of a slippery slope,Helps a man escape self-deceit,Even as he hangs from his last … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Argument, Bits of Truth, Containment, Corporate Hand, Deception, Declarative, Devious Mood, Eterntainment, Facts, Feet, Legacy, Life, Managed Publicity, Measure, Measured Question, Miles, Morning News, Normatives, Organic Nature, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Profit, Ratings, Reputation, Response, Rope, Salughter, Self-Deceit, Self-Rgulation, Senseless Acts, Shown, Sleep, Slippery Slope, Stream, Truth, Understand, Unknown, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Words Are Lovely, Dark and Deep. But I Have Promises To Keep, and Miles To Go Before I Sleep

Posted on September 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Dark, Deep, Lovely, Miles, Pormises, Robert Frost, Sleep, Thought For the Day, Words | Leave a comment

Too Many Miles, Too Many Tears

Posted on April 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Too Many Miles, Too Many Tearsby Michael DoyleLooking back on all the miles I’ve drivenOver lands other believed they were givenI find a lot is needed to be forgivenWere it not for being too busy livingI remember coming to Indiana … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century Perspective, Acre, Aggression, Betrayal, Broken Promises, Brutal Erasure, Callous Savages, Cultural Reival, Curious, Despair, Dirupted Community, Dispossession, Driven, Essence, Expansion, Forgiven, Fracture, Given, Harmony, Heritage, History, Honor, Indian Territory, Indiana, Land, Last Breath, Laugh, Lineage, Living, Miles, Monticello Mansion, Native American, Native Land, native-americans, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Portrayal, Prophetstown, Reborn, Revive, Road Trip, Sacred Cycle, Scream, Story, Survival, Tears, Tenskwatawa, Thomas Jefferson, Trail of Death, Trail of Tears, Trails, Unity, Vision | Leave a comment

Newport Aquarium

Posted on June 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidentally Learn, Aquarium, Beauty, Care, Cared, Challenges, Class, Daughters, Dimming, Diversity, Dreams, Drive, Endless Miles, Expereince, Father, Gentle Traces, Glass, History, Imagination, Knight, Learn, Lessons, Miles, Minds, Museums, newport, Newport Aquarium, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Princess Smiles, Quest, Remember, Revealed, rhode-island, Served Their Love Well, Share, Shared, Shore, Smiles, Swimming, Tale, Taught Them Well, Together, Travel | Leave a comment

Totality and Doom

Posted on April 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Totality and Doomby Michael DoyleYesterday, the moon blotted out the sunIn the same way, it has frequently doneThe people traveled from miles aroundHoping they would see something to astoundTheir weary minds at least for a little whileSome came to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apocalypse, Appear, Astound, Bits and Pieces, Blood Moon, Bloom, Blot, Certain, Change, Chaos, Clever, Close Lips, Comfort, Conspiracies, Corner, Crowd, Cultural, Dandeliions, Darkness, Days, Devil's Comet, Die, Doom, Doomsayer, End, Faith, Familiar, Fear, Forever, Happy, Internet, Lear, Lives, Magical, Miles, Moon, Odd, Panic, Path of Totality, Poetry and Poems, Prediction, Prophecies, Reality, Regret, Religious, Resilient, Signficant, Signs, Sky, Smile, So Much for, Speak, Startled, Strong, Sun, Taught, Thinker, Totality, Travel, Trouble, Vibe, View, Wait, Watch, Weary Minds, Whisper, Wrong, Years, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Deep End Moments

Posted on March 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Deep End Momentsby Michael DoyleThe deep end of the dating sceneIt can be or seem extremely shallowThat is, if you know what I meanIt’s, at best, the higher love’s shadowCan true love come without face-to-face?Or is that hoping for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Arrive, Arrow, Best, Blind, Cleopatra, Confide, Connection, Correction, Crystalized, Cupid, Dating Scene, Deep End, Director, Dream, Egypt, Embrace, Face-To-Face, Faded, Fall, Feel, Good Heart, Heart and Head, Higher Love, Hope, Hopeless, Inside, Jaded, Kind, King, Know, Let Love Grow, Love, Mean, Meet, Mercy, Miles, Moments, Nile, Out of the Gate, Past, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prove, Queen, Reach, Reveal, Secrets, Shadow, Show, Silver Screen, Smile, Someone Special, Special, Sunset, Sweet Truth, Tell, Together, True Love, True Love Moment, Victory, Wait, Well Meet | Leave a comment

Thoughts Looking Back

Posted on December 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts Looking Backby Michael DoyleI do not want to say anything that isn’t trueAt least, that is, from my deepest point of viewI have lived my life in its living, and as a writer,Often seeking to find life a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Moments, Bright, Fall, First Admission, Gloss, Happy, Hasty Judgment, Heartbreaks, Horror and Pain, Language, Life, Looking Back, Miles, Mistakes, Mystery and Miracle, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Seek Good, Smiles, Spring, Tell, Thoughts, True, Writer | Leave a comment

Born In the Rockies (Part II)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Born In the Rockies (Part II)by Michael DoyleThe backbone of North America stretches for milesBring life across the land with ceaseless smilesFrom shifting sand dunes to deep river valleys it goesFrom the most brilliant stretches of sun to deep shadowsEach … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Animal Babies, Backbone, Beginning, Biome, Born, Childhood, Cranes, Cub, Dance, Day, Deep River Valley, Den, Earth, Ecosystem, Essential, Explore, Freshness, Generation, Grass, Habittual, II, Life, Miles, Mirth, Mist, Mother, Nature, New Life, North America, Play, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow, Renewal of Vows, Ritual, Romance, Sand Dunes, Shadows, Smiles, Spawn, Sun, Tale, Temperate, Time, Understood, Wait, Ways of Love, Win, Winter, Yellowstone Valley | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Happy, Happy Christmas, That Can Win Us Back To the Delusions of Childish Days

Posted on December 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Away, Charles Dickens, Child, Christmas, Days, Delusions, Fireside, Happy, Miles, Old man, Pleasure, Quiet Home, Recall, Sailor, The Pickwick Papers, Thought For the Day, Transport, Traveller, Win, Youth | Leave a comment