Tag Archives: Place

On Being Indigenous In the 21st Century

Posted on August 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

On Being Indigenous In the 21st Centuryby Michael DoyleIn this world of the modern ageWhen most wish to appear a wise sageIt is pithy to posture and sayIn that pseudo-intellectual wayThat the indigenous follow Mother Nature’s wayThough if you were … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Amazonia, America, Ask Us, Blame, Boundaries, China, Coffee, Community, Continuity, Corrupt, Cultivation, Definition, Desire, Dignity, Distinguished, Diversity, DNA, Empires, Encode, Endure, Europe, Exclusion, Explanation, Extremes, Family, Finger Pointing, Flags, Forfeit, Grit, Havoc, Heads, History, Identity, Inclusion, Indigenous, Knowing, Language, Less, Limited, Marginalized, Modern Age, Modern Life, Modern World, Mother Nature, Native Tongues, New Nation, Peoples, Percaption, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Posture, Poverty, Power, Pseudo-Intellectual, Sage, Same, Save, Skill, Slash and Burn, Soul, Sovereignty, Stain, Strife, Surrender, Symbolic, Teeth, Thinking, Tribes, Vulnerability, Wise, World War Two | Leave a comment

Slips of the Tongue

Posted on August 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Slips of the Tongueby Michael DoyleSlips of the feeble tongueCome more often when no longer youngThings ill thought should often not be saidBut instead kept inside one’s headOur lives are played out like a movieSometimes hellbent though that doesn’t move … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Actual, Another, Awkward, Bad Decisions, Best, Better, Better Way, Charm, Clarity, Cling, Conspire, Copping Out, Dancing, Day To Day, Dealt, Derision, Desire, Dig Out of the Dirt, Doing Best, Embrace, End, Face to Face, Fade In, Fed, Feeble, Feel, Felt, Foot, Fragility, Freely, Front, Fully, Half, Hands, Harm, Head, Hearts, Hold Out, Hope, Hurts, Ill Thought, Intended, Kept Inside, Know, Less, Life, Lives, Living It Up, Make Believe, Masquerade, Means, Measured, Mouse, Move Me, Movie, Next Day, Often, Opening Scene, Other, Our Own Devices, Out of Control, Party, Photograph, Place, Played Out, Poem, Poetry, Premature, Realization, Roles, Roll Through, Said, Seek, Self, Slips, Sorrow, Start, Times, Tongue, Trap, Truths, Unintended, Universe, Wicked, Wrap, Young | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Only Place Success Comes Before Work Is In the Dictionary

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi, former Green Bay Packers coach

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Before, Dictionary, Only, Place, Success, Thought For the Day, Vince Lombardi, Work | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

Don’t Talk To Strangers

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

First in a series of poems based on a retelling of the classic werewolf story, or is it… Don’t Talk To Strangers by Michael Doyle Mama said don’t talk to strangers You’re never out of danger When you live on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bleed, Blood, Call, Charming, Danger, Dangerous, Day, Death, Directions, Disarming, Edge of Darkness, Eyes, Fall, Half Hidden, Hearts, Mama, Map, Meaningless, Measure, Night, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Proof, Proven, Purity, Rules, Running Away, Series, Silently, Strangers, Talk, Trap, Uncertainty, Us, Werewolf, Wolf | Leave a comment

Brand Me

Posted on June 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adore, All I'll Ever Be, All-American, All-Star, American, Any, Bed, Believe, Best of Life, Body, Books, Brand, Branding, Care, Choir Boy, Conversation, Crazy, Destiny, Devote, Dream, Dreams, Echo, Eighteen, Family, Fine Enough, First Chorus, Glory, Gratefully, Grave, Grindstone, Head, Hell, Hesitation, Humble, Joy, Just As Well, Laughter, Life, Love, Many, Me, Military Man, Moment, Nose Held Down, One Question, Open Door, Passion, Photograph, Place, Placed, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, President, Pride, Pride and Joy, Princesses, Privilege, Put Away, Read, Song, Story, Stride, Strife, Study, Sunbeam, Team, TED Talk, Thank God, Thinking Back, Time, Tombstone, Trust, Two, Wounded, Years | Leave a comment

Slow Like A Mule

Posted on June 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Blues and fusion offers it’s own kick of long solos filled with hot licks. But in all of this, there is that groove and it punches slow like a mule. No one threw those punches better than Betty Davis. Slow … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Betty Davis, Blues, Boogie, Born, Celebration, Choice, Critics, Deep, Difference, Disappear, Disenchant, Enigma, Falling Light, Fear, Full Truth, Funk Queen, Fusion, Genteel, Get It On, Gift, Gone, Heart, Heavy, Inclusive, Keep, Keeping It Real, Legend, Liberation, Life, Long Legged, Loose Goose, Mojo, Mule, Music, Mystery, Night, Note, Offer, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Polish, Queen, Raven, Raw, Reclusive, Reign, Reverence, Ring, Road, Show, Sirens, Slap Down, Slow, Soul Sacrifice, Space, Starlight, Steamy Night, Told, Tome, Tree, Walk, Watch, Whiskey Courage | Leave a comment

Wildness Into View

Posted on June 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another in the series on photography. This one focuses on capturing animals and plants. There is so much to see in this fascinating world of ours. Wildness Into View by Michael Doyle Staying hidden in order to see Is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aperture Priority, Balance, Best Lesson, Best Photos, Better, Build, Capture, Close, Connection, Conservancy, Day, Embrace, Expression, Fauna, Flora, Flow, Flower, Freeze, Gratification, Habitat, Hidden, Hike, History, Impression, Improve the Odds, Intimacy, Lenses, Light, Macro, Memory, Natural, Opportunity, Patience, Patience and Time, Pay, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Preplanned, Radio Control, Rare and Few, Reception, Repeated Access, Research, Richness, Right Opportunity, Satisfaction, See, Serenity, Shallow Depth of Field, Shape, Sharp, Shutter Speed, Subject, Trick, Trigger, View, Weather, Wildlife Photography, Wildness, Work Around, zoo | Leave a comment

A Haunting Place

Posted on June 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ghosts don’t require ancient castles or haunted Victorian homes. Sometimes the most haunting place is alone inside a person’s mind. A Haunting Place by Michael Doyle Inside my mind is a haunting place Filled with missed memories I wish to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Alone, Arise, Assassin, Awake, Break, Chains, Compart, Contentment, Contradictions, Coup, Cross-Examination, Cut Off, Doubt, Embrace, Eyes, Ghosts, Haunting, Head, Help, Hidden, Humble, Impossibility, Inherent, Inner Ghost, Inside, Late At Night, Loss, Lost, Mature, Me, Mind, Mirror, Missed Memories, Morning Light, Most, Nature, Peer, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Ricochet, Said, See me, Self, Shade, True Heart, Truth | 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