Tag Archives: Rote

I Thought Myself An Eagle

Posted on January 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

I Thought Myself An Eagleby Michael DoyleI thought myself an eagleAnd built me a nest in solitudeAbove where I could watch beautyAnd very few might intrudeThe disappointments I’ve knownHave dried up my springs of hopeI retreat to that comfort shownAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence of Love, Atone, Beauty, Broken, Comfort, Complement, Connection, Cope, Decision, Defect, Disappointments, Discovery, Eagle, Heart, Hope, Hypertensive World, Imagination, Inside Myself, Intrude, Jouney, Known, Leap of Faith, Life, Moments, Music, My Love, Nest, Notes, Own, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Private Sins, Pulled Apart, Refuge, Retreat, Revea;, Right Direction, Rote, Search, Secrets, Shattered, Shelter, Shown, Solitude, Soul, Spoken, Springs of Hope, Steady Eyes, Surprise, Survive, Talk, Thought, Times, Walk, Watch, Wordless Words, Would-Be Travelers | Leave a comment

Writing Our Own Stories

Posted on March 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Writing Our Own Storiesby Michael DoyleWe find ourselves in our struggleEmerging from our strife into lifeIt seems to me, that we too often juggleThe solutions that can be overly rifeIt is us who write our own storyAs we listen beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Auditory, Become, Books, Build, Command, Concisely, Dare, Destiny, Different Journey, Dread, Drum, Dullness, Edit, Emerge, Engage, Evolve, Excitation, Finger, Gamble, Hands, Head, Hear, Hearts and Minds, Honestly, Hope, Imaination, Inspire, Integrity, Juggle, Lead, Life, Life's Artistry, Listen, Lives, Our Own Stories, Passing Days, Poetry and Poems, Recitation, Rife, Rote, Shelves, Silence, Solutions, Speak, Strife, Strugle, Violence, Wage, Write | Leave a comment

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discord

Posted on January 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discordby Michael DoyleThe disappointmentWas of an inevitabilityAfter all, to err is humanity’s Greatest capabilityVery few are hard wiredInto our grand designWe don’t stand a prayerIn the face of the divineEven the hand of the creatorIs open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Best, Brace, Capability, Clavier, Disappointment, Discord, Divine, Dreams, Err, Fade, Fate, Fear, Filter, Final, Grand Design, Guns, Half-Forgotten, Hand of the Creator, Hard Wired, Heads, Humanity, Inevitability, Intend, Intricate, Last Note, Late, Late Night Shows, Master of Puppets, Memorize, Metaphorical, Mind, Odds, Parts, Passion, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pull the Trigger, Pulled Strings, Realize, Recall, Release, Rote, Shadow, Shotgun Wedding, Silent Screams, Snow, Taught, Tragic Flaw, True, Well-Tempered, Well-Tempered Clavier, Wishing Wishes | Leave a comment

Unpredictable Play

Posted on January 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Play is how children best first learn. Maybe it’s that way throughout all of life? Unpredictable Play by Michael Romani Life, she says, is truly best When it’s lived an unpredictable test Where attention is paid like a guest Requiring … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibis, Alive, Architecture, Attention, Aware, Best, Bit, Brink, Cat, Child, Children, Claw, Curious, Detail, Dream, Dying, Empower, Engagment, Explore, Feel, Fit, Guesst, Heroes, Hide, Important, Insist, Intuition, Learn, Lesson, Life, Live, Mind, Nuts and Bolts, Pattern, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Post-Industrial, Real, Recall, Repitition, Rest, Rise, Rote, Rules, School, See, Shine, Significant, Soul, Survive, Test, Think, Try, Unpredictable, Value, Way, World, Young | Leave a comment

Smiled On A Blue Note

Posted on January 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Despite all the controversies surrounding the band, probably my all time favorite musical group is Led Zeppelin. I was reminded of this only just yesterday. Smiled On A Blue Note by Michael Romani Come to me so gently Floated on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Audacity, Blue Note, Capacity, Clown, Complete, Controversy, Dance, Delight, Delta Blues, Drama, Due, Feel, Garden, Gentle, Karma, Know, Lawyer, Led Zeppelin, Levee, Line, Melody, Moonlight, Moss, Open Secret, Own, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prince, Quiet, Rhapsody, Riff, Rock N Roll, Rote, Say, Sing, Smile, Song, Sonic, Soul, Stone, Story, Stroll, Voice, Yer Blues, Yesterday | Leave a comment

A Christmas Wedding

Posted on December 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping on a Christmas theme: A Christmas Wedding by Michael Romani In the city that never sleeps There’s a story that keeps About a dash of whirlwind romance Between two lovers caught in a winter’s dance Christmas magic wrapped in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, All American Princess, Blush, Bubbles, Castle, Champagne, Christmas, Christmas Wedding, Cinderella, Dance, Eagle, Elegance, Fish Bowl, Glide, Keep, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Presents, Providence, Queen, Regal, Romance, Rote, Sleep, Snow, Sour Note, Tears, Tradition, Winter | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Wisdom Goes Beyond Mere Recitation of Memorized Words

Posted on January 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Memorization, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Recitation, Rote, Students, Thinking, Thought For the Day, Wisdom | Leave a comment

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I Thought Myself An Eagle

Writing Our Own Stories

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discord

Unpredictable Play

Smiled On A Blue Note

A Christmas Wedding

Thought For the Day: Wisdom Goes Beyond Mere Recitation of Memorized Words

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