Tag Archives: Mood

In the Heat of August

Posted on August 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Heat of Augustby Michael DoyleRising temperatures affect the moodWith noisy insects seeming to intrudeSome live to complain line after lineBut I think instead, I’ll make August mineEven a poet or two finds it a povertyThat they cannot enjoy … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affect, August, Autumn, Blue Moon, Children, Complain, Dreams, Dusk, Embrace, Evening Woods, Explore, Favorite, Feast, Fields of Flowers, Fireflies, Forget, Fruit, Heat, Helen Hunt Jackson, Hours, Intrude, Line After Line, Magic, Mine, Mood, Moon Beams, Nature, Noisy Insects, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pools, Poverty, Regret, Ripe, Rising Temperatures, Soul, Summer's Last Stand, Sunny Days, Swim, Swimming Holes, Tapestry, Think, Understand, Violets | Leave a comment

Searching For Truth (On A Yellow Brick Road)

Posted on December 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Truth (On A Yellow Brick Road)by Michael DoyleSearchers after truth seek hidden meaningsOn whatever road traveled as human beingsThoughts and actions shape the emotionsStuffed within a wicker basket of devotionWhen looked at properly and with interpretationThere is so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Concerns, Develop, Emotions, Encounter, Fears, Hidden Meanings, Interpretation, Lessons, Mood, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Search, Self-Affliction, Self-Discovery, Soul, Thoughts and Actions, Truth, Wicker Basket, Yellow Brick Road | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

Sounds For Troubled Times

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

One thing I’ve had some time to do lately is to explore what tuneage tends to lift my spirits in these sunken times. Sounds For Troubled Times by Michael Doyle Susceptible to a classic boogie fever As though there be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 250th Birthday, Anything, Aspiration, Beethoven, Bent Pitches, Black Jazz, Blue, Boogie Fever, Brilliance, Call, Catharsis, Celebrate, Charm, Classic, Composition, Cool, Dance, Dark, Deaf Man, Define, Dim, Divide, Ear, Energy, Everything, Forget, Gershwin, Get Up, Greater Than, Hang In There, Happiness, Harmony, Heart Strings, Hearts, Hope, Humor, Imposition, Improvisation, Inspiration, Instrumental, Interlude, Joy, Kick, Lever, Loss, Love, Masterpiece, Missed, Mood, Moonbeam, Morals, Music, Musical, Need, Pandemic, Parts, Persevere, Photograph, Place, Playlist, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Resilience, Rhapsody, Romance, Sign, Songs, Sonic, Soul, Sounds, Spirit, Star, Stick, Sweep, Teach, Tone, Troubled Times, Tunes, Universe, Verse, Voice, Wall, Way, We, Where, Who, Whole, Write | Leave a comment

The Colors of Intensity

Posted on April 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Self isolation is proving interesting. Continuing in thoughts on photography and the capture of light in general…. The Colors of Intensity by Michael Doyle From the blues of a snowy day To the reds of sunsets along the way Subject … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Being, Blues, Button, Call, Capture, Chosen, Color, Contrary, Coolness, Danger, Days, Decide, Dramatic, Express, Fall, Feel, Filter, Flick, Gray Blue, Heighten, Ice, Imagination, Immensity, Intensity, Interpretation, Lamentation, Latitude, Light, Light Spectrum, Meaning, Mind, Mood, Natural Limitation, Nights, Percision, Photographer, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rays, Red, Refract, Saturation, Self Correct, Self Isolation, Situation, Smile, Snow, Soft, Specific, Subject, Sunset, Variety, Vision, Warmth, White, White Balance, World | Leave a comment

Ode To A Mermaid Friend

Posted on January 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A new friend who helped me in getting my bearings in the new place I have in SL and encourages me to form a poetry group there is a mermaid. We were talking about the funny quips she has on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Celestial, Chian, Comb, Control, Dejavu, Depth, Destiny, Dream, Drown, Emotion, Eternity, Fade, First Light, Food, Friend, Gold, Jester, Kingdom, Legend, Long Hair, Lose, Magic, Mahogany, Mer Men, Mermaid, Mood, Mortal, Music, Mystery, Mystical, Nature, Night, Ocean, Ode, Opinion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Shrimp, Sin, Siren, Soul, Spare, Tale, Tempt, Tragic, Wept, Word, Wreck | Leave a comment

Sizzle As It Fries

Posted on December 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s hard to get better than today’s celebration! Happy National Bacon Day! Oh sure… some are going to say, hey… you’re supposed to be working hard on your health….. Yes, I know. However, you’ve taken brownies and chocolate chip cookies.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bacon, Bless, Bliss, Brownies, Buy, Care, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Choline, Clinch, Control, Counter Argument, Crispy, Decisively, Decrease, Delicious, Denial, Disapprove, Drizzle, Earth, Ensure, Excuse, Face, Fact, Fish, Fry, Gluten Free, Hair, Happy, Head, Health, Healthy, Heart, Important, Internet, Kitchen, Laugh, Life, Live, Love, Lovingly, Lurch, Mind, Mood, Morning, Move, National Bacon Day, Nose, Numbers, Nutritious, Omega Three, Part, Peace, Perfect Mate, Photograph, Plate, Poem, Poetry, Rude, Sad, Satisfying, Save, Search, Seen, Shake, Share, She, Sizzle, Smile, Soul, Stare, Steal, Stress, Strife, Strip, Sunday, Suspicion, Tease, Tolerate, Trans-Fat, Umami, Vigor, Vim, Vitamin, Wealth, Willing, Wink, Wrinkle, Wrong | Leave a comment

Sweater Weather Dues

Posted on December 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Originally meant for December 20th, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! Sweater Weather Dues by Michael Romani Tell me now Was it just a trick of the light That led me somehow To see things differently that night They tell me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticiption, Better, Celebration, Convention, Cross, Destiny, Dream, Dues, Eyes, Fit, Gone, Guitar, Happiness, Holiday, Joy, Judgment, Knit, Melody, Menaing, Mood, National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 2019, Neck, Nervous Wreck, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rudolph, See, Smile, Soul, Strings, Surprise, Sweater, Tacky, Touch, Tradtiion, Trick of the Light, Weather | Leave a comment

Thankful In Collaboration

Posted on November 21, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking on art and design, a poem of gratitude for its immersive collaboration. A poem in gratitude #21: Thankful In Collaboration by Michael Romani Designs of light In abstraction Just might Be created in collaboration Subtle changes Create the color … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Ah-Ha, Art, Blue, Breadth, Breath, Change, Collaboration, Color, Create, Design, Drawn, Embrace, Experience, Exude, Feeling, Foundation, Gratitude, Heart, Immersive, Latitude, Light, Link, Mood, Observer, Photograph, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Rearrange, Red, Reeling, Relax, Room, Saturation, Soul, Space, Step, Thankful, Wake, Wow, Yellow | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Bayou

Posted on October 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The whispers only outnumber the will ‘o wisps down in the bayou… Down In the Bayou by Michael Romani Whisper, whisper just loud enough And behind your listening ear It’s that tingle of anticipated fear Like the leaves falling this … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories, Uncategorized | Tagged Bayou, Birthright, Choice, Daily Prompt, Door, Fate, Fear, Full Moon, Halloween, Heart, Mind, Mood, Queen, Whisper, Will 'O Wisp | Leave a comment