Tag Archives: Rope

Normatives Shown

Posted on October 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Normatives Shownby Michael DoyleAddressing bits of truth,In this age of managed publicity,Has since my youthBeen a matter of building a legacy.Thinking on one’s feetOn the slip of a slippery slope,Helps a man escape self-deceit,Even as he hangs from his last … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Argument, Bits of Truth, Containment, Corporate Hand, Deception, Declarative, Devious Mood, Eterntainment, Facts, Feet, Legacy, Life, Managed Publicity, Measure, Measured Question, Miles, Morning News, Normatives, Organic Nature, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Profit, Ratings, Reputation, Response, Rope, Salughter, Self-Deceit, Self-Rgulation, Senseless Acts, Shown, Sleep, Slippery Slope, Stream, Truth, Understand, Unknown, Youth | Leave a comment

The Power In No

Posted on June 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Power In Noby Michael DoyleIn my life, I’ve been a sonHeld by a mother as second to noneTo my sister, I have been a brotherLoved by her like no otherI’ve been a doting sort of fatherOf my two beautiful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Available, Believe, Bitter Fate, Brother, Call, Capability, Daughters, Deserve, Diligent, Do, Doting, Dreams, Dreams and Hopes, Empowerment, Father, Feelings, Find Themselves, Full Capacity, Getting Less, Greatest Power, Happiness, Healing, Home, Inconvenient Truths, Late, Life, Live Up, Love, Love Given, Medical Care, Mirrors, Mother, Neglect, No, Observe, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pretense, Rocks, Rope, Self-Respect, Shade, Single Sentence, Sister, Son, Wait, Weight, Women | Leave a comment

Holding Hands With the Sun

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abstraction, Advocacy, After All, Art, Awake, Bottom, Call, Clear, Complicity, Construction, Darkness, Declarative, Destruction, Detection, Distraction, Doing, Doodle, Escape, Experience, Exquisite, Fall, Fantasy, Feels, Fill, Glacier, Granted, Hands, Heed, Hold, Hope, Humanity, Imaginative, Improvement, Intimate, Life, Light, Look, Lost, Love, Melt, Mirror, Moment, Movement, Moving, Narrative, Noise, One, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Positive Sight, Precious, Rant, Reality, Reel, Reflection, Rope, Scrawl, Secret, Simple, Simplicity, Sun, Thinking, Unknown, Voice, We, World, You and Me | Leave a comment

Soul Shift – Deplorable

Posted on January 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of a beginning exploration into the dark side possible outcome of mankind’s transition toward half believing we understand the implications of quantum theories. Soul Shift – Deplorable by Michael Romani Father forgive us, we know not what we do … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Biology, Blur, Borders, Boundary, Con, Concern, Connectivity, Control, Cost, Crisis, Dark Side, Dead, Deny, Deplorable., Dreams, Ego, Element, Eternity, Expendable, Explore, Fade Out, Faithful, Flee, Flow, Forgive, Fracture, God, Guess, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Indefensible, Know, Living, Lost, Mankind, Morality, neew, Occur, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Quantum, Relative, Rope, Rumor, Science, Seek, Shift, Simplicity, Soul, Spirituality, Strive, Superlativee, Technology, Theory, Time, Toward, Understand | Leave a comment

We Who Damn Ourselves

Posted on October 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #19: We Who Damn Ourselves by Michael Romani We damn ourselves To our own private hells Dwelling on all Of the tiniest details In a world grown cold We lose all hope All of our dreams bought and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beg, Bought and Sold, Cling, Cold, Contrary, Damn, Deserve, Desperate, Detail, Dreams, Dwell, Easy, Elusive, End of Day, Evidence, Evil, Eyes, Forgive, Found, Halloween, Hang, Heresy, Hope, Ignore, Implore, Learn, Mercy, Monster, Ourselves, Pay, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Private Hell, Reach, Rope, Say, Through, Way, We, Words, World, Worthy | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: When You Reach the End of Your Rope, Tie A Knot In It and Hang On

Posted on June 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged End, Franklin D Roosevelt, Hang On, Knot, Rope, Thought For the Day, Tie, You Reach | Leave a comment

Adulting Conversation

Posted on May 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger. Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”… Adulting Conversation by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Adult, Adulting, Change, Communication, Construction, Conversation, Danger, Deal, Fascination, Fix, Future, Hope, Insult, Introduction, Keep It Real, Language, Linguist, Live and Learn, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Risk, Rope, Talk, Tic, Turn, Verbal Punch, Words | Leave a comment

First Reasons Lost

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

What becomes of our individual worlds when our first reasons are lost? First Reasons Lost by Michael Romani First reasons have been lost And with that loss comes a cost The giving up when it becomes Too much to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusations, Another, Busy Day, Call, Closed Eyes, Cold, Compassion, Conception, Cost, Dare, Demanding, Doubt, Down, Dreams, Drown, Fall, Fear, First Reason, Giving up, Good Lord, Gray, Imagine, Inquisition, Lashing Out, Listen, Lost, Love, Matter, Miraclees, Nightmare, Numb, Other, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Real, Requisition, Reveal, Rope, See, Self Inflict, Shatter, Snare, Snowfall, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Trap, True Light, Understanding, Voyage, Water, Winter, World | Leave a comment