Tag Archives: Proud

Lessons From Sonic and Zen

Posted on August 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based on a conversation and then watching a movie as I was there sharing it: Lessons From Sonic and Zen by Michael Doyle Large popcorn, extra butter Tasty treat and then another Settled in blanket to watch the show Cuddle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About, Agreed, Alienation, Amble, Blanket, Butter, Change, Clever, Conversation, Cuddle, Diplomacy, Discern, Drag, Enemies, Fast, Good Thing, Great Power, Green, Have No Doubt, Hedgehog, Hills, Hurry, Intimacies, Learn, Less Worry, Lessons, Lightning Speed, Loneliness, Magic, Movie, New, Not To Worry, One, Photograph, Plan B, Poem, Poetry, Popcorn, Proud, Ramble, Safety, Screen, Self Isolation, Share, Sink In, Smile, Sonic, Spare Box, Strange, Thing of the Past, Treat, Warn, Watch, Wink, Won't Last Forever, Wound, You, Zen | Leave a comment

Wild Winds

Posted on August 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As mentioned before, it is birthday weekend for a very sweet daughter whose gentle spirit and artistic ways make me a better man in every way. I am so proud to be her father. I thought it might be, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrive, Assured, Back and Forth, Banter, Birthday Weekend, Bison, Blessed, Brought Back From the Edge, Buffalo, Buffalo Dreams, Buffalos, Calamity, Charge, Conversation, Cows, Daughters, Distinction, Drive, Eldest Daughter, Embrace, Explain, Explore, Extinction, Faint Marks, Family, Fascination, Father, Few Remaining, Flicker, Forward, Fremont, Friends, Future, Future Trips, Great Beasts, Horns, Indiana, Journey, Kayaking, Learn, Less Dim, Liberty, Long Drive, Love, Mile by Mile, Moment, Move Along, Nation, No Complaining, Old, Once Was A Time, Open Door, Outside, Photograph, Playfully, Plentiful, Poem, Poetry, Present, Preserve, Proud, Quicker, Raining, Risks, Rivers, Rus, Safer, Salvation, Saturday, Song, Soul, Stormy, Strength, Talking, Teach, Tenacity, Thankful, The Girls, The Great Creator, Their, Time Spent, Torment, Toward, Trace, Tragedy, Treasure, Vulnerability, Wild Winds, Wilderness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

When Children Speak

Posted on July 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When our children speak, we should listen. We never know what we might learn? If nothing else how they see the world. And I can think of no greater gift than understanding the world through the eyes and hearts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Allowed, Beauty, Believe and Love, Carry On, Change, Children, Communicate, Compassion, Complicity, Even When Wrong, Eyes and Hearts, Fascinate, Find, Finding Their Way, Girls, Gone, Hearts and Minds, Heaven Above, Heritage, Hope, Intensity, Know, Lean, Left, Listen, Look, Love, Moment, No Greater Gift, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Proud, Reason, Recompense, Reflect, See the World, Simply Young, Speak, Speak In Tongues, Strange, Study, Taught, Tell Me All, Temptation, Things Said, Truth, Unafraid, Unintended Consequence, Urge, Watch, Worthy, Wrong, Youth | Leave a comment

Waking Up Alone

Posted on June 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Didn’t Bowie set it out for us well? Time may and does change us. But, we cannot change time. Why do realize that when we are young. Then so many of us lose sight of this as we grow older … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Apocalyptic, Approach, Aware, Bleed, Bowie, Capable, Change, Cross, Die, Dream, Drowned Out, Eventually, Fatalism, Fear, Feel, Feeling, Forward, Gone, Hands and Hearts, Hangs In the Air, Hard Rains, Hesitation, Highs, History, Hold On, Humor, Know, Listen, Live In the Past, Living, Lows, Mockery, Moving, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point of No Return, Proud, Question, See, Slow Trains, Sneer, Stark, Still Here, Terror, The Rubicon, Things Don't Last, Time, Today, Tomorrow, Unafraid, Wake Up, Waking Up Alone, Warning, We're On Our Own, Wonder, World, Yesterday, Young Ladies, Youngsters | Leave a comment

On Attempting To Be A Good Father

Posted on June 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As Father’s Day approaches, I am thinking a lot on what it means to be a father to my two daughters. I am woefully aware that as they approach their teenage years, there are things I might have said and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approaches, Attempt, Bless, Case, Cause, Choice, Circumstances, Daughters, Disrupt, Do My Best, Don't Know What To Do, Eyes, Fail, Fall, Family, Father, Father's Day, Father's Face, Find, Follow, Forgive, Forgiveness, God, Good, Good Father, Grace, Guidance, Hard Calling, Hope, Knees, Know, Lead, Learn, Let Down, Little Voice, Live, Look, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Mend, Mercy, My Family, Not In Vain, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Press Onward, Prevail, Priceless, Princesses, Proud, Providence, See, Show by Example, Show Them, Steel, Strength, Strive, Tear, Tears, Think, Totality, Treasure, True, Two, Understanding, Velvet, Vulnerability, Weaknesses, Will, Wish | Leave a comment

The Having of Something To Say

Posted on June 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What makes a poet? The Having Something To Say by Michael Doyle Sitting here in the middle of a think Mentally stumbling slipping toward brink Wondering what it is that makes a poet Certainly certain that I don’t know it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aloud, Artistic Crime, Bad, Blank Verse, Brag, Brave, Brink, Constructed, Destruct, Dron, Essay, Eyebrows, Gone, Grammar, Have, Hope, Know, Lewd, Listen, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Praise, Prefer, Pretend, Prose, Proud, Quiet, Raising, Rant, Rave, Realize, Reason, Rhyme, Rose, Rude, Say, Sit, Something, Strike, Strikes, Stumble, Think, To, Today, Two Words, Wish, Wonder, Write, Write What You Know | Leave a comment

Today and Always

Posted on June 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Six months ago today, I met my love dressed in the guise of an elf with a high interest in photography, kindness in her heart, beauty in her soul, endowed with a laugh that woke the core of my soul … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Days, All Things, Always, Amaze, Attention, Beats, Beautiful, Beauty, Beyond Words, Bless, Brand, Breath, Cherish, Day We Met, Depend, Devoted, Dreams, Elf, End of Days, Falling Star, Far, Girlfriend, Happiness, Happy, Happy Anniversary, Heart, Hope, In All Ways, Joy, Keeper, Kindness, Laugh, Life, Love, Love You, Love You Always, Magic, Memory, Met, Moments, Never Find, Never Giving Up, Nice, Once, Partner, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Priceless, Promises, Proud, Reason, Right Intention, Season, Six Months, Spark, Spice of Life, Thanks, This Day, True, Turn Around, Twice, Wish, Wishes Came True, Wonderful, You | Leave a comment

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Posted on April 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 22 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The optional prompt being to use an idiomatic phrase from another language or popular in another country as a starting point. Manuscripts Don’t Burn by Michael Doyle Years ago when I was younger Words ate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Ate, Beat, Belong, Burn, Commit, Concept, Country, Dangerous, Dead, Edition, Embrace, Fear, Feel, Felt, Freedom of Press, Frustration, Government, Hunger, Ideas, Idiom, Jail, Learn, Legacy, Light, Live, Long, Manuscirpts, Marketplace, Memory, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Notion, Oral Tradition, Pdd, Photograph, Phrase, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Proud, Rulers, Satire, Say, Sense, Sentiment, Song, Stories, Strong, Tale, Tears, Tell, Thought, View, Way, Words, Write, Written Down, Years, Young | Leave a comment

A House Divided

Posted on March 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The worse war America has ever fought was the war against ourselves, the American Civil War. A House Divided by Michael Doyle Lincoln’s inaugural was an attempt at reconciliation The mystic chords of memory were bonds of affection The siege … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1864, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, Affection, American History, Anaconda, Appomattox, Arms, Atone, Brothers, Charity, Chord, Civil War, Claim, Conciliation, Courage, Dawn, Dedicate, Depression, Disdain, Effort, Emanicipation Proclamation, Empathy, Eyes, Fold, Fort Sumter, Fortune of War, Free, General, General McClellan, Gettsyburg Address, Humanity, Humiliation, Ideals, Inaugral, Insinuation, Liberty, Linger, Malice, Memory, Mutual Respect, Nation, National, Naval Blockade, Neglect, None, North, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Prize, Proud, Provoke, Rebels, Reconciliation, Reelection, Regain, Regional, Rely, Remain, Robert E Lee, Sacred, Second Inaugural, Sentimentality, Siege, Sinner, Slavery, Slaves, South, Stack, Steadfast, Support, Textile Industry, The People, Trust, Ulysses Grant, Union, Vain, Victory, War, Winner, Won, Wounds of War | Leave a comment

Dead Men and Their Tales

Posted on March 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Even Al Capone thought of himself as a public servant… Dead Men and Their Tales by Michael Doyle It is strange so it seems Clinging to faraway dreams Thoughts stuffed inside my head Dedicated to a father long since dead … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Al Capone, Allow, Been, Book, Calculate, Cast, Cheer, Circle, Contemplation, Dark, Dead Men, Dedicate, Dream, End, Father, Fright, Gallows, Glory, Head, History, Hope, Legend, Lip, Listen, Loop, Lot, Math, Meditation, Meet, Might, Mystery, Near, Night, Noose, Path, Photograph, Pirate, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Proud, Public Servant, Read, Repeat, Right, Rumor, Sage, Seem, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Story, Strange, Tale, Whisper, Wise | Leave a comment