Tag Archives: Observation

If Space and Time…

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

If Space and Time…by Michael DoyleIt’s only been a matter of a few passing yearsI’m alone on your birthday except for my tearsTalking to God again, I stare off into the nightYours was the sisterly love that was my guiding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Clever, Cling, Clue, Communicate, Consciousness, Constant, Cosmic Instant, Cosmic Pasture, Death, Devastation, Every Passing Breath, Existence, Existential Dread, Feel, Flaws In Knowledge, Flooding Grief, Fragmented Conversation, God, Guiding Light, Heart To Stone, Hero, Hope, If, Immortality, Kid Brother, Laughed, Left Behind, Life, Light Particles, Live Forever, Living, Lone Cowgirl, Lost, Love and Belief, Mind, Multiverse, Night, Observation, Outside of Time, Paid the Costs, Pain, Passing Years, Philosophy, Poetry and Poem, Praying, Reality, Risks, Role, Rough Day, Sight, Signal, Sisterly Love, Sorrow, Space, Space and Time, Spaceless World, Spirituality, Story, Talking To God, Tears, Tomorrow, Tools, Universe, Wafture, Your Birthday | Leave a comment

A Speculative Blush of History

Posted on October 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Speculative Blush of Historyby Michael DoyleIn part, science fiction involves mysteryOther times, speculation about historyWhat might have been or might well beHad things only turned out a bit differentlyAll the casual moments of interpretationOf events real and in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blush, Deduction, Depcition, Differently, Facts, Fictive, Historical Speculation, History, Imagination, Interpretation, Machination, Mystery, Observation, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Reconstrution, Science, Science Fiction, Speculative, Templates, Theory, War and Peace | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of the Others

Posted on September 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” – William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Experience, Imagination, Observation, Supply, Thought For the Day, Three Things, Times, Two, William Faulkner, Writer | Leave a comment

Periodic Burn Offs

Posted on September 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Periodic Burn Offsby Michael DoyleIt is all about maintaining our true wealthWhen we cooperate with our natural healthKeeping the functions on which we dependIs absolutely necessary, or we will all surely endWith a world less desirable for all to liveAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Benefit, California, Capability, Capable, Compete, Controversy, Cooperate, Depend, Desire, Development, Earth, End, Environment, Every Tool, Fire, Forgive, Function, Future, Good and Wise Government, Good Stewards, Greed, Human, Improvement, Land, Learning, Less, Less Desirable, Listening To Others, Livability, Live, Mesophication, Natural, Natural Health, Natural Spaces, Nature, Necessary, Necessity and Use, Needs, Observation, Out-Of-Control Wildfires, Periodic Burn Offs, Poetry and Poems, Progress, Progressive, Reap, Responsibility, Sustainable, True Wealth, Uncertainty, World | Leave a comment

Cats, Dogs, and Pizza

Posted on September 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Cats, Dogs, and Pizzaby Michael DoyleThere’s a storm brewing between right and wrongAnd where it is that we are best and truly belongMoreso, we struggle to know ourselves in identityAnd what furry and non-furry friends to keep as our familyPeople … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alley Rats, Angels, Animals, Beauty, Belong, Better, Better People, Blind Man, Care, Cat, Cats, Celebration, Change, Compassion, Dare, Deserve, Dogs, Familial Relationship, Family, Fellow Animals, Furry Friends, Gentleman, God, Grateful and Loyal, Greedy, Happy, Headfirst, Heaven Above, Human, Identity, Inferior Creatures, Kitten, Leash, Linger, Live Up To, Lonelines, Love, Loved, Masterpiece, Me and You, Meander, Nappy, Needy, Obligation, Observation, Offer, Other, Outward Sense, Pastiche, Pets, Petting, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Question, Reeling, Rhyme, Right and Wrong, Sense of Space, Simplest Moments, Sleepy, Slice, Standards, Storm, Tense, Thought and Feeling, Time, Twain, Unconditional Love, Undying Affection, Unrestrained, Watch, Weather, Whatever, Whole of Nature, Words, Worship | Leave a comment

The Singularity of the Immersive

Posted on October 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Singularity of the Immersiveby Michael DoyleThe virtual offers its trailing breadcrumbsPushing forward into spaces where the mind numbsThrough the effort of examining its potential The path walked has become quite consequential This platform of mixed media is greater than … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accent, Acceptance, Anonymity, Art, Artist, Black and White, Breadcrumbs, Calculated, Complexity, Consequential, Contemporary, Data, Direct Look, Drum, Embrace, Enhanced Sights, Extemporary, Face, Formation, Glimpses, Immersive, Impression, Kinetic, Mind, Mixed Media, Music, Numb, Observation, Path, Platform, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Preparation, Prints, Rejection, Respect, Shades, Simplicity, Singularity, Space, Stylistic Work, Sum, Virtual, Vision, Well Versed | Leave a comment

Searching For Signals

Posted on October 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground | Leave a comment

Happy Constitution and Citizenship Day!!

Posted on September 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Today is a day that memorializes our Constitution and has become also Citizenship Day. For the United States, this should perhaps be observed with more vigor as we have clowns like Gavin Newsome increasingly pushing to overthrow our nation’s Constitution. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Amendment Process, Celebrate, Citizenship, Clown, Compromises, Constitution, Gavin Newsome, Happy Citizenship Day!, Happy Constitution Day, More Perfect Union, Nation, Observation, Observe, Overrhrow, Republican Form of Government, Resource, Response, Thought For the Day, United States, Vigorous | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of Others

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” -William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Experrience, Imagination, Lack, Observation, One, Supply, Thought For the Day, Three Things, Two, William Faulkner, Writer | Leave a comment

Open Declaration

Posted on April 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Open Declarationby Michael DoyleThe cross is not a decorationIt is an open declarationOf how much love the Father bringsThese are the lessons of the hymns we singLooking carefully at all that we seeWhat brings happiness, what brings misery?Staring out bored … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carefully, Contrary, Conversation, Cross, Cultivate, Decoration, Experiences, Finest Hours, God's Command, Happiness, Hit and Miss, Hymns, Learn, Lessons, Live Through, Living Life, Love, Misery, Nowhere to Live, Observation, Open Declaration, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Sanctuary, See, Shine, Sing, Stare, Strong, The Father, Timberline, Words of Power | Leave a comment