Tag Archives: Simplicity

In the Hateful Wastefulness of Mediocrity

Posted on May 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Hateful Wastefulness of Mediocrityby Michael DoyleIs it as it seems some kind of conspiracyThis hateful wastefulness of mediocrityClearly, I am not genius quite enoughFor I, in my simplicity, to hazard a bluffThat human nature is an understandingI hold … Continue reading →

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Na/GloPoWriMo #18: “I Began My Life…”

Posted on April 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #18: “I Began My Life…” by Michael Doyle Grabbing this pony by the bridle Chapters do not really need a title That seems wisest, he quietly said And yet that’s not the task, replied his head So alright, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attempts, Borrow This, Bridle, Chapters, Clever, Collection, David Copperfield, Doubt, Drink, End, Fall On Deaf Ears, Familiar, Friend, Good One, Head, Hint, I Began My Life, I Don't Like It, Instead, Lost, Manage, Meager Musings, My Mind, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nobility, Of My Own Account, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pony, Poor David, Quiet, Rational Thought, Reply, Sake, Shut, Simplicity, Sipping, Task, Think, Think of Me, Those Sought, Title, Tremendous Phrases, Wise, Wonder What It's About, Wondered, Yield | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #3: Words That Sound Good

Posted on April 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Words That Sound Goodby Michael DoyleThere is a bit of something That is eloquently rapped into nothingThat there are words that just sound goodAnd go together well like they shouldIt’s a bit of the simplicity That is found inside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apocalyptic, Best of Life, Bit of Something, Busy As A Bee, Chase, Clandestine, Complexity, Dictionaries, Eloquently, Equilbrium, Found, Go Together Well, Golden Ore, Good, Mine, Museum, My Heart, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nothing, Pageantry, Pleasantry, Poetry and Poems, Precious, Preserve, Rapped, Simplicity, Sound, Square Root, Stare, Unapologetic, Words | Leave a comment

A Birthday Week

Posted on October 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words | Leave a comment

Entering the Afterlife

Posted on August 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Started watching the point of origin series of Star Trek series with the girls. The one that is more or less the prequel for the whole thing. Got this out of the first episode: Entering the Afterlife by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advent, Afterlife, Ankle Deep, Beginning, Beyond the Stars, Chase, Communication, Complexity, Conflict, Creed, Cynicism, Dim, Dream, Dreams, Each Day, Empathetic, Enter, Explanation, Explore, Faith of Heart, Forward, Found, Freed, Going Boldly, Gound, Have Not Been, Hope, Humanity, Imprint, Interpretation, Langauge, Larger, Mass Perfection, Name of Honor, New Challenges, New Generation, New Worlds, Onward, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Problematic, Problems, Proceed, Prospects, Push Forward, Reaching Out, Right Direction, Seems, Simplicity, Space, Speak, Spirit of Man, Star Trek, Swim, Victories | Leave a comment

But Not Today

Posted on July 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Yesterday, my driver’s side back wheel got sabotaged and blew out while on the highway. Probably just a freak accident, right? Anyhow.. a poem came from this. Surprise, right? Spoiler alert, I found out once again about the goodness in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Day, Astray, Big Hearts, Caffeine, Cards, Clear, Constant, Cop, Crumble, Day, Dog, Driving, Flat Tire, Gratitude, Great, Heart, Indiana, Interestate, Limp, Lost, Matter, Not, Not Today, On My Way, Photograph, Photos, Pick Up, Play, Poem, Poetry, Price, Rolling, Simplicity, Small Town, Staying Alive, Story of My LIfe, Stumble, Survive, These Days, Tire Change, Today, Truck Stop, Way | Leave a comment

From Darkness To Light

Posted on July 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Spent an interesting day learning, seeking and then seeing and then simply being … Or maybe, it was more like several hours in 90+ degrees photographing left me more just taking it all in while conveniently clicking to take photos … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authenticity, Awaken, Baggage, Being, Beyond, Blown Fuse, Blues, Carry On, Cosmos, Crevices, Dark, Darkness, Day Trip, Deal, Death, Dedicate, Destination, Destiny, Discover, Done, Doors, Ducklings, Enough, Eternal, Eventuality, Exquisite, Find, Forgetfulness, Found, Freed, Freedom, Gain, God, Greater Consciousness, Human, Ignorance, Immortality, Incessant, Interesting Day, Journey, Keys, Kingdom, Knowledge, Learn, Less Me, Light, Live, Locks, Luck, Mirror, More and More, Mother Duck, Need, Night, One, Open Doors, Park Pond, Part, Perception, Perfected, Photograph, Photographing, Pick, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Quiet, Realization, Reflection, Remember, Remember When, Reunite, Right, Rocks, Scurry, Search, Seeing, Seem, Set Free, Shake, Share, Show, Shrug, Simplicity, Simply, Soul, Star Stuff, Swim, Takes, Tangled, Think, Thinking Back, Times, Truth, Unreal, Untarnished, Web, When, Wholeness, Wiser, Within, World, Young Ducklings, Zen | Leave a comment

Lessons From Eden Park

Posted on May 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Roaring Twenties were a fascinating time. Among the lessons to be learned was that a woman could do and be more than they had been allowed until then, vice and other personal choices could not be controlled and that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Alive, Barrier Breaker, Best, Boardwalk Empire, Boost, Bootleggers, Booze, Brain, Brains, Brawn, Business, Complexity, Conspire, Constrain, Control, Convention, Depiction, Dog Days, Draconian, Dregs, Eden Park, Edge, Fascinating, Fiction, Fire, Freedom of Choice, French Seventy Five, Gangster, George Remus, Glorified, Glory, Gone, Habit, Headlong, Height, History, Ill Spent, Impetus, Invention, John Barley Corn, Lawlessness, Layer, Lessons, Liberating, Libertine, Life, Light, Measure, Men, Mess, Mystery, Necessity, Notoriety, Outlandish, Personal Choice, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prohibition, Relate, Repulsive, Roaring Twenties, Roost, Satisfaction, Second Thought, Shadow, Short, Simplicity, Sip, Society, Soul, Strand, Strife, The Four Swallows, Time and Again, Time Travel, Unholy, Vice, Vise, Whiskey Pirates, Women, World War I | Leave a comment

Don Quixote Reexamined

Posted on May 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions | 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