Tag Archives: Question

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Friend, Books, Brave, Careful, Dark, Deep, Detail, Door, Echo, Eyes, Fall, Feel, Follow, Heels, Hello, Hidden, Hide, Key, Listen, Lock and Key, Lost Up, Magic, Meant, Memory, Mirror, More, Myster, Mystery, Night, Pain, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Question, Scenery, See, Self, Shadow, Shiver, Shut, Sing, Sing Along, Skies, Song, Spirits, Stand, Understand, Unpack, Vain, Watch, Whisper, Wishing Well, You | Leave a comment

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

Thoughts On the Hubble Space Telescope

Posted on May 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I find it fascinating that my lady love and I are both interested in things like the exploration of universe and soul. I actually wrote this poem yesterday but didn’t post it. Sort of ran out of time talking… … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Alone, Assauge, Assure, Beauty, Blot, Blue, Born, Cloudy, Collective, Cross, Dark Places, Deep Space, Diffuse, Discover, Eyes, Face, Familiar, Forgiver, Forlorn, Form, Galactic, Galaxies, Glow, Home, Hubble Space Telescope, Intensity, Interstellar, Light, Light Pollution, Light Years, Marvel, Might, Milky Way, Night Skies, Overlap, Passing Days, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Pink, Poem, Poetry, Program, Puzzle, Question, Sea, Search, See, Shine, Silver River, Skies, Space, Spiral, Spy, Stars, Straw Path, Study, Tapestry, Tears, Thoughts, Three Billion, Tonight, Trace, Universe, Urban, Wander, Wish, Wonder, You and I | Leave a comment

Finding the Good

Posted on May 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words | Leave a comment

An Easter Of Empty Churches

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What an odd sort of Easter wasn’t it? But perhaps a lesson to be learned… An Easter of Empty Churches by Michael Doyle April of 2019, Notre-Dame was burning And in this, we were surprised and learning That there would … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of Us, April 2019, April 2020, Assumption, Bar, Barren, Believe, Believers, Believing, Burn, Capable, Caves, Celebrate, Church, Churches, Comfort, Consensus, Contend, COVID-19, Cross, Curse, Deceiving, Distance, Door, Dread, Easter, Empty, Excommunication, Faith, Faithful, Fate, Faustian Bargain, Fear, God, Government, Grieve, Hearts, Home Church, Homes, Hope, Hues, Infection, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Saves, Know, Learn, Lepers, Loss, Love of Others, Meant, Need, Notre Dame, One, Order, Pain, Pandemic, Pews, Photograph, Plagues, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Pray, Prayer, Presumption, Question, Reality, Realization, Reappear, Resistance, Revelation, Rich, Shape, Shut, Son, Spiritual, Sustain, The Church, the Word, There, Thrive, True, Unease, Wait, War, World | Leave a comment

The Reagan Renewal

Posted on April 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Reagan presidency: The Reagan Renewal by Michael Doyle By the late 70s, the Conservative movement formed a coalition Not all were of the same mind, but it combined of its own volition Seeking smaller government … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1984, American History, Berlin, Brandenberg Gate, Budget, Bureaucratic, Coalition, Cold War, Compel, Conservative Movement, Deficit Spending, Dignity, Electorate, Empathy, Establishment, George H Bush, Gift, Glasnost, Government, Great Communicator, Greater Revenue, History, Hope, Increase, Inflation, Kennedy, Landslide, Liberal Democrat, Long Coat Tails, Lose, Lower Taxes, Mellon, Message, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, Military Might, Nation, Opportunity, Orwell, Perestroika, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precision, Public Confidence, Qualification, Question, Questions, Reagan, Reagan/Bush, Recession, Reformation, Regulation, Renewal, SDI, Shining Moment, Small Government, Soviet Union, Spending, Strength, Technocratic, Television, The People, Time, Transformation, Unemployment, Vision, Voice, Win, Youth | Leave a comment

The Great Not So Great Society

Posted on April 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History continues through the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency: The Great Not So Great Society by Michael Doyle LBJ entered his presidency aiming to be legendary Setting his sights on ending poverty through Great Society Johnson aimed to do this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affluence, Anti-War, Anxiety, Assassination, Black Vote, Blank Check, Bleed Out, Bobby Kennedy, Civil Rights, Conflict, Conservative, Counter-Culture, Disaffection, DMZ, Doctrine of Limited War, Domino Theory, Draft, Echo, Eisenshower, Emptiness, Ethics, Flaw, Fought, Franchisement, Gap, Government, Great Society, Hubert Humphry, Inadequacy, LBJ, Legendary, Legislation, Limitation, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr, Master, Materialism, Medicare, MLK, Nation, Nights, Nihilism, Nominee, Peace With Honor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Presidency, Promise, Question, Quiver, Radical Movements, Real Time, Repudiation, Result, Return, Richard Nixon, Riots, Role, Skepticism, Soldiers, Southeast Asia, Substiution, Television, Tonkin Bay Resolution, Torpedo, Up Close and Personal, Urban, Victory, Vietnam, Violence, Watts, Welfare, Wilderness | Leave a comment

It Came As It Did

Posted on April 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

First Friday and third day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020. Today’s prompt is to create a word bank based on 10 key words and then not necessarily using all but keeping in mind an effort to echo the rhymes for these until … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Academic, Act, Allegory, Allow, Anomaly, Avoid, Badly, Behave, Beset, Bight, Biochemical, Bite, Brave, Bright, Bright Side, Bungalow, Came, Cave, Cold Sweat, Come What May, Community, Compare, Dance, Depression, Destination, Did, Dog Day, Domino, Elf, Epidemic, Even So, Everything, Fair, Family, Fight, Find, Finite, Foreheads, Gave, Government, Hand, Here, Hesitation, Hold, Home, Hope, I, Immunity, Impression, Impunity, Interest, Isolated, Isolation, Laugh, Library, Light, Love, Mandatory, Mask, Matters, Meaning, Memory, Middle, Might, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo 20/20, Nation, Night, Noewhere, Noose, Old Play, Opportunity, Origins, Outline, Pair, Pandemic, Perfected, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Poor Me, Pour Me, Prayer, Promise, Psession, Question, Really, Recession, Regret, Roll, Rolling Wave, Rumor, Save, Science, Sew, Share, Shatters, Somewhere, Spread, Stare, Startle, Story, Stubbed Toe, Survive, Systemic, Tell, There, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transparency, Travel Ban, Trite, Understand, Unity, Watch, Weaponize, Window, Woe, Word Bank, World, You | Leave a comment

Stars Align & Connect

Posted on March 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Her mind is a lot on the future and how that will be. I would lie if I said mine isn’t as well. Wrote this with real hope despite feeling a bit ill. Stars Align & Connect by Michael Doyle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Alone, Ambiance, Bold, Candlelight, Caught, Champagne, Connect, Cuddle, Dots, Dream, Emotions, Energy, Expectations, Face to Face, Fairy Tale, Free Fall, Future, Hesitation, Hope, Love, Magic, Mind, Moments, Next, Organic, Pace, Path, Petals, Photograph, Physical, Picture, Poem, Poetry, Question, Romantic, Rose, Soiree, Stars, Synergy, Talk, Touch, Touched, Understand, Unreal, Zone | Leave a comment

Laurel Canyon Vibe

Posted on March 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The 60s Los Angeles music scene was a very special time. I would love to have been there to seen all that talent in one place. https://flic.kr/p/vD253D Laurel Canyon Vibe by Michael Doyle There was an avalanche of sound That … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 60s, Ask, Association, Avalanche, Blur, Canyon, Cascade, Clear, Collaboration, Dream, Echo, Fantasy, Feeling, Find, Flow, Garden, Geometry, Good Day, Guitar Licks, Happening, Harmony, Heart, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, Love, Melody, Music Scene, Notes, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Question, Rain, Reeling, Reiteration, Reverberation, Rock N Roll, Sense, Soul, Sound, Street Corner, Street Light, Talent, Task, Urge, Urgency, Vibe, Vibration, What, When | Leave a comment