Tag Archives: Play

Thought For the Day: A Body of Clay, A Mind Full of Play, A Moment’s Life — That’s Me

Posted on November 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life — that’s me.” – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet (27 Nov 1907-2003)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Body, Clay, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Lifee, Me, Mind, Moment, Play, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

These Are the Days of Us

Posted on November 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged ABCs, All the Things, Ascendant, Because, Beguile, Belief, Blame, Burn, Child, Days of Us, Discern, Dreams, Each Other, Faith and Love, Favor, Fist, Fit, Glove, God, Hate, Important, Learrn, Matters, Meaning, My Student, One Another, One Lesson, Play, Poetry and Poems, Put Aside, Real Love, Reprise, Shame, Teach, Theme, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Something About Respect

Posted on November 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Something About Respectby Michael DoyleIt was a different lifeA different sceneLife was toughAnd the streets were meanLife was about respectAsking for the something better to be hadWas maybe a bit too much to expectBut the beauty seen could make him … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Backrow, Beauty, Bluebird, Catch My Fall, Champions, Content, Desire, Despearation, Different Life, Doubt, Drag, Expect, Face, Fall, Flirt, Glad, Had, Heartbreak, Life's Games, Made, Making Love, Mean, Melancholy, Mistake, Moment, Night, Nothing At All, Picture Show, Play, Poetry and Poems, Proverbial, Rainbow, Respect, Scene, Seen, Shadows, Something, Something Better, Stand, Streets, The Way, The World, Tough, Unafraid | Leave a comment

Other Side of Hell

Posted on November 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Other Side of Hellby Michael DoyleThis isn’t meant to discourageBut sometimes, true courageIs found on the other side of HellWhen your eyes have seen enough to dispelAny notion that peace can be foundThrough the taking of lives in warAnd when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Affliction, Answer, Any, Bleed, Chase, Cuts Deep, Discordant Chords, Discourage, Dispel, Do Not Fight, Dread, Every Drop, Expense, Eyes, Fact, False Bravado, Form, Found, Hands, Heart, Hell, Ignore, Know, Life, Lives, Lonesome Trail, Multiple Choice, Notion, One Bullet, Other Side, Others, Peace, Plant, Play, Poetry and Poems, Power, Reflection, Repeated, Rest, Reveal, Road, Scared Cause, Seeds, Seen, Shadows, Sickened, Sorrow, Soul, Stand, Story, Sudden, Swords, Test, Test of First Light, Told, Tomorrow, Too Many, True Courage, Truth, Veteran, War, Windows | Leave a comment

Step Inside A Haunted Mansion

Posted on October 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Step Inside A Haunted Mansionby Michael DoyleWhat if death was not the endingBut instead, just a new beginning?What if the paranormal was realAnd not just something that we feel?Skepticism has its own kind of turningIn all walks of life, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After Midnight, Answers, Bad Luck, Bad News, Beginning, Beyond, Blind, Conceal, Crystal Ball, Dark Spirits, Dead, Death, Devil, Discern, Disquieted Spirits, Ending, Fear, Fears, Feel, Fight, Final Play, Follow, Ghastly Sight, Ghosts, God, Good Intent, Grandeur, Grasp, Gravee, Haunted Mansion, Haunting, Hear, Hell Bent, Hollow, Inside, Lead, Learn, Life, Medium, Message, Mirror, Mortal Beings, Move On, Mysterious Ways, New, New Orleans, No Hope, Numbered Days, Our Ghosts, Paranormal, Personal Fiight, Pessimism, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pray, Real, Return, Reveal, Save, Scare, Seance, Skepticism, Spiritualism, Step, Substantial, Succumb, Trap, Truth of Life, Turn, Voice, Walks, Wanting, Watched Steps, Whisper | Leave a comment

Puer Aeternus

Posted on September 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Puer Aeternusby Michael DoyleIt seems that from out of nowhere subtleThere’s an argument that has no rebuttalThat all of my desire for the highest riskHas passed my logic by walking tall and briskMy life had always been fairly straight and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptability, Analytical, Archetypes, Argument, Avoid, Binds, Blocking Development, Bullying, Clearly See, Collective Dreams, Commitment, Complete, Complexity, Conditional, Cronus, Deep Desperation, Degree, Depression, Desire, Detection, Difficult Passages, Divine Child, Divine Comedy, Doomed Relationship, Drama, Eleuisinian Mysteries, Emotional Disintegration, Empty Shell, Europhic Experiences, Expression, Fairy Tales, Fleeting Affection, Forget, Freedom, Greek Mythology, Grip, Grown Up Things, Highest Risk, Hook, Hurt, Iacchus, Inner Child, Insufferable, Intolerable, Joy, Life, Logic, Lost Boy, Mature, Maturity, Metamorphoses, Mirror, Modern Lifee, Moral Reflection, Naivety, narcissistic, Neverland, Now, Nowhere, Nurture, Once Upon A Time, Parenthetical, Paths, Personal Hell, Personal History, Peter, Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, Play, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Provisional, Psychology, Puer Aeternus, Rebuttal, Regret, Repeat, Restrictions, Seams, See, Shadow of the Puer, Shadows, Stability, Stagnate, Straight and Narrow, Subtle, Tales, Time Passages, Truama, Walking Tall, Wild, Wonder | Leave a comment

Politically Incorrect Revisited

Posted on September 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Politically Incorrect Revisitedby Michael DoyleIs there some kind of fearThat we the people might persevereInto the rapid-fire shaking upCrystalized by making upToo many improvised linesSliding through topical landminesIn an approximation of real-timeThat edges up into the sublimeIt’s that take no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approximation, Certainty, Childproof, Comic, Commentary, Complex, Consequence, Damages, Dare, Deserve, Doubt, Edge, Elevate, Evident, Evolution, Evolve, Expect, Express, Facts, Fear, Harsh Truth, Humor, Improvised Lines, Indignant, Inflict, Interplay, Involve, Irreverent, Know, LandMines, Lend, Less Direct, Making Up, Mental, Monlogue, Necessary Players, Open Conflict, Pass, Persevere, Play, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Politically Incorrect, Principles, Put, Questions, Rapid Fire, React, Real Time, Relevance, Respect, Revisit, Revolution, Say, Sensitivity, Shaking Up, Straightforward, Sublime, Take-No-Prisoners, Televise, Topical, Tragedy, Travellogue, Truth, Urgency, Words, Worked Out, World, Youth | Leave a comment

The Wonderous California Coast

Posted on May 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Wonderous California Coastby Michael DoyleWe are escorted by dolphin laughterComing from guardians who are afterThe company that they find in playAlong the bow of our boat, much like yesterdayWhen mighty Calypso sailed the coastal deepsAlong the coral reefs to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alto, Aquarium, Baja, Battle, Beauty, biodiversity, Blind, Blue Planet, Blue Skies, Cacti, California Coast, Calypso, Capacity, Chart, Coastal Deep, Company, Coral Reef, Distinction, Divers, Dolphin, Drops of Water, Efficient, Escort, Existence, Extinction, Fault, Feed, Find, Forest, George Waashington, Guardians, Heart Break, Imperil, Jouney, Kelp Bed, Knowledge, Laughter, Live, Love, Mankind, Mexico, Nature, Noses, Notion, Oblivious, Ocean World, One Water System, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pretense, Protection, San Jose Island, Scarcity, Sea of Cortez, Sequoia, Squid, Sun, Survival, Sustainability, Time, Water, Wonderous, World Apart, Wounded Heart | Leave a comment

Leather Jacket Nerves

Posted on April 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Leather Jacket Nervesby Michael DoyleThere I was bleeding on the insideHidden behind the tall wallThat bears the scars of my prideA worn mask with a hidden callNot quite worn as a poker faceDrifting back in my perilous dazeWe would toughen … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amaze, Bleed, Bloody Fingers, Brace, Brutal Sin, Chains, Childhood, Dying Inside, Dzae, Heroes, Iron Men, Leather Jacket, Mask, Nerves, Nerves of Steel, Painted Black, Play, Poetry and Poems, Poker Face, Pride, Scars, Six String, Solo, Unforgiving, Vain, Wall | 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