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Happy Thanksgiving 2024!!
Aloha Promises Forever wishes each and everyone of its readers and their families and friends a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving 2024!! How do you spend your Thanksgiving Day? For my family, we do our very best to always catch … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Annual Dog Show, Blessed, Cheese, Crackers, Faith, Family, Football Game, God, Grateful, Gratitude, Happy Thanksgiving 2024!!, Holidays, Lord, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Meats, Military Dependent, My Daughters, Parade, Recollection, Thanksgiving, The Philippines, Thought For the Day, Wish, Wonderful
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Blues
Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Bluesby Michael DoyleWith the pressure of coal refractiveIn a life hard lived and extractiveA diamond’s aspects glitter in their huesThe Bronx Bull lived his blackened bluesWhen out of the ring, his prowess was as abusiveAs his desire … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abusive, Aspects, Blackened, Blues, Born, Brown Down, Bruises, Caged Canary, Champion, Cheers, Coal, Contest, Crown, Cure, Currency, Desire, Destiny, Elusive, Endure, Extractive, Feel, Fight, Footwork, Found, Go Down, Hard Life, Harm, Hues, Jabs, Jake LaMotta, Jeers, Journey, Kock Out, Life, Life Hard Lived, Love, Night After Night, No Good Answers, Outrun, Parade, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Prowess, Punch, Pursuit, Push Beyond, Refractive, Remember, Ring, Shadow Box, Shakespearian Quest, Sing, Sir Olivier, Soured Life, Sugar Ray, Tears, The Bronx Bull, The Raging Bull, Treadmill, Unknown, Walls, Wish, Wonder, Years
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Thought For the Day: Lots of Times You Have To Pretend To Join A Parade In Which You’re Not Really Interested In Order To Get Where You’re Going
“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” – Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)
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Tagged Christopher Morley, Going, Interest, Order, Parade, Pretend, Thought For the Day, Times, Where
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Thought For the Day: When It Rains On Your Parade, Look Up Rather Than Down. Without the Rain, There Would Be No Rainbow
“(W)hen it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Tagged Down, Gilbert K Chesterton, No Rainbow, Parade, Rain, Thought For the Day, Up, Without Rain
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Tomorrow Begins
Life is filled with twists and turns. Where there isn’t always understanding, maybe acceptance is enough? Tomorrow Begins by Michael Romani Blinded by the brilliance of the light Tomorrow begins again in our tonight Stumbled falling and I am here … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrival, Circus, Crown, Crush, Death, Dignity, Dream On, Dreams, Family, Friend, Frown, Handshake, Integrity, Kinship, Last Breath, Learn, Light, Love, Luck, Night, Parade, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revival, Run Away, Rush, Smile, Spot Light, Springboard, Struck, Stuggle, Stumble, Three Ring, Tomorrow, Tonight
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Daily Prompt – Tourist
Out under the summer’s beating sun There are moments of such brilliant fun But none so fun as watching tourists on parade As they pantomime their crazed charade Leaving their footprint traces in the sand While watching lovers hand in … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Bay, Charade, Daily Prompt, Dream, Fade Away, Footprints, Fun, Hand In Hand, Life, Lovers, Moment, Naive, Pantomime, Parade, Sand, Sand Dollar, Sandcastles, Summer, Sun, Sunset, Tourist, Wash, Yesterday
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