Tag Archives: Question

To Escape the Warren

Posted on June 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

More or less dedicated to A Watership Down: To Escape the Warren by Michael Doyle In the beginning Rabbit gained his tricks There on the path of winning Played out like a guitarist’s licks Each to have their meaning Captive … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Sacred Questions

Posted on June 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

How do we have the courage to ask the questions that must be asked? We just do.. maybe? Sacred Questions by Michael Doyle Searching for the courage needed Listening to the inner voices, I’ve pleaded To the one that asks … Continue reading →

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A Lone Bagpiper

Posted on June 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

All of us are coming out of the isolation spawned by Covid-19 into a world changed by virus and by riotous disruption. In some ways, this is good. In some ways this is bad. In all ways, this is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1918, Alleged, Authorities, Bagpiper, Change, Cheap Rumors, Clairty, Confuse, COVID-19, Destiny, Doubt, Edge, Effective Testing, Enhance, Eradication, Explanation, French Square, Game of Chance, Genetic, Head, Herd Immunity, Human Beings, Immunization, Impact, Isolation, Lack of Transparency, Leaders, Legacy, Lethal, Lie, Lone, More, Nation, Notion, Odds, Ought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Rapid Mutation, Response, Riots, Segment, Sensible, Simulation, Society, Taught, Tell the Truth, The People, Virus, Walk, World | Leave a comment

All That Mistaken Jazz

Posted on June 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In this day and age, there is so little convention of civility that is kept and each indiscretion perhaps leads further to those things that act in concert to break down society. All That Mistaken Jazz by Michael Doyle Conversations … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Alone, Animal Magnetism, Avoidance, Broken, Civility, Convention, Conversation, Desperate, Dignity, Dreams, Felt Deeply, Fit, Focus, Heart of Stone, Hesitation, Hidden, Host, Importance, Indiscretion, Jazz, Life, Live, Losses, Mistake, Most, Past, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Pragmatism, Price Paid, Privacy, Question, Quit, Random Chance, Sad, Sake, Seldom, Shattered, Society, Space, Spoken, Treasure, Trite, Voice, Want, Whimper, Winners, Words | Leave a comment

Specter of A Well Aimed Gun

Posted on May 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Between the chase scenes, I believe science fiction grapples on some of humanity’s biggest questions. Do you? Specter of A Well Aimed Gun by Michael Doyle Specters of a gun take aim Innocent of the perceptions slain Fooled by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, Analogy, Analysis, Big Questions, Convention, Dare, Deception, Deduction, Dream, Electric Dream, Essential, Exact, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Fool, Glasses, Grapple, Gun, Hesitation, Humanity, Inception, Influence, Innocent, Interplay, Inventions, Lift, Operation, Paralysis, Perception, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reach Out, Scene, Science, Science Fiction, Seen, Shake Down, Slay, Specter, Thought, Translate, Veils, World | Leave a comment

Texas 1836

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I have always found American history fascinating in all of our legends and tales, tall or not. https://flic.kr/p/rcGaxj Texas 1836 by Michael Doyle Texas, Eighteen Hundred Thirty Six Thousands of Americans invited in Finding their place in desert sand and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1836, Alamo, American, American History, Americans, Ashes, Austin, Band, Blame, Bloody, Comanche, Death, Desert Sand, Die, Fight, Flame, Folly, Forgot, Free, Freedom, General Santa Anna, Hardcore, Houston, Intention, Intervention, Jackson, Karankawa, Land, Learn, Legend, Lesson, Lose, Manifest Destiny, Mexican, Nation, Outlaws, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Question, Reason, Right, Rise, Settlers, Slavery, Sticks, Stood, Struggle, Swept, Tale, Tejano, Tension, Tequila Sunrise, Texas, Tribal, Tribe, Why, Win, Wrong | Leave a comment

In the Tears We’ve Cried

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love, especially long distance love, can be so difficult. Funny how it feels so easy when two hearts that mesh well meet. Then things can get difficult. But, you know what? Bob Marley is right… was right.. whatever. Thing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Another, Balance, Become, Believe, Beyond, Blessed, Blind, Cheer, Close, Coincidence, Cried, Cry, Curtains, Dancing In the Rain, Deceive, Difficult, Each Other, Ease, Easy, Ever, Explain, Fear, Feel, Feeling, First Sight, Forever, Hand, Head On, Heaven, Kind, Know, Knowing, Lead, Learn, Lift, Living, Long Distance, Love, Love Is Blind, Luck, Message, Moving Past, Photograph, Pleasant, Please, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Providence, Question, Real, Showing, Take, Tears, Think, Tried, Truth, Two Hearts, Us, Wander | Leave a comment

Hello Echo

Posted on May 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some mysteries are better left under lock and key. Hello Echo by Michael Doyle Deeper than an echo In a wishing well Hidden in the shadow Shivering to its last detail You have to listen To the whispers calling Can … Continue reading →

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Birth of Merlin

Posted on May 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Which was your favorite? King Arthur? Or, Merlin? Birth of Merlin by Michael Doyle In 480 AD, in Britain’s Dark Ages Arthur, Camelot and Merlin rode into its pages Shrouded in the fog of great mystery It’s half lost from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancient Days, Anger, Birth, Brawn, Breath, Britain, Camelot, Castle, Child, Chivalry, Command, Counsel, Country, Dark Ages, Death, Druids, Famine, Favorite, Fog, Gods, History, King, King Arthur, Land, Legend, Lore, Magic, Merlin, Mystery, Myth, Night, Pages, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Purity, Question, Risk, Second Sight, Sincerity, Storm, Time, Violence, Wise Man, Wizard | Leave a comment